The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

quality who, out Of loyalty to her prince.
felt obliged to stand by dumb and stoi
ca. while her babe was murdered before
her eyes Soon the murderers departed,
leaving her alone.
The mother rose warlly: looked about
,r,a.thlly. then sprang suddenly upon
the body OF her child and Rugged II to
her breast. The crowded audience. M II
and women, burst into sudden tears.
Sever was there more weeping at
Madame ""
Yes they weep.
They lov. and toll, toll unremittingly.
They honor their parents; the family is
a living unit with quite a domestic gov
ernmcn, arranging things in an orderly
way. They are intensely patriotic
They are markedly polite and hospitable
Tlry are scrupulously clean; every
japanese takes hot bath daily. they
dr,>, dcccntly. They are thrifty; they
ar, keen traders. They are imhued WITH
III. spirit Of progress. They learn
quickly and study with avidlty.
In every walk and department of life
and activity they are "A nation ardentIy
attending school, There are 52,oOo'ooo
Of them. There are nearly lO,OOo,ooo
households Japan has often been called
"th, paradise of children ryWhere
chubby smiling infants on the backs OF
mothers sisters or brothers; every
wh,r, free limbed merry boys OF school
az, n peaked caps, long blue whl'e
specified hlouses, and school girls IN
lah, toned kimuno with gay coloreu
OBJ. like gambolnng flowers along the
street. ana the poorer streets too. AS
81. ia. school nOSSlDllltltS
are Open to every child There they are
th,u. as | have seen them, optimism pos
s,,-.ns them their faces smiling as they
face the futurc-very like what we
would ,k" any civilized nation To be
And where the mystery?
T. Is not a mystery. which, according
90 Lurd Dundrcary. Is the sort oi th'nS
t. fellow can find out" To my think
IKE u resides in our own ignorance
Won do not understand line of minor
action. why for instance, japanese
merchant is slow, apparently dilatory'
IN completing deal that il perfectly
clear 10 YOU and (you Think should
Doe perfectly clear to him. You grow
al %. mystery" of the Asiatic mind.
Now the Japanese understands all the
business points. he quite sure of that
Nuu DO not dream people who nave To
say about the ways and means
He is careful, cautious, with a long
Inherited suspicion in trade, lie mas 10
CLOSE up one door before he opens
another. 1t is his custom, born before
banks railroads, telegraphs, telephones
He vIl manage it in time, All this may
". '>r-periting, but it is no mystery
b. 10 nxt :
rI'' 10 is formidable barrier to com
I.''' interchange of thought with tht
nl.-urr. The japanese thinks and
talks bus own language rapidly. re"
rIr'd If them ever learn to talk rapidly
H amy foreign language. The students
Of English in Japan are numbered by
tens Il thousands. Many talk 1t with
nlnry one not so fluent said of his
irrn3 who was also studying English
'I"Nmura is in advanced stage of com
lu,'.,u"
Naturally the majority are in the
early steps Of conversation, though theil
reading is apt to he Curiously advanced
i,uU one Toxic business man beg
phs me- for a little light on 1.-THE Eng
A.h' Of one of the late Mr. Synge''
Iish dialect plays Wen, this Language
''il'r believe me, accounts for nine
hN'hS Of the "Asiatic Mystery" and
''''aH Western superciliousness ar "A
''.' u"urosity, not To say scorn as Il
i' u Lines Of thought and belief, &C
counts for the balance.
E"nI,puS' beliefs. or what stands fo
'h'u. WdiVdualities as shaped b!
""ih'Woral custom or as rounded an,
A'I"'hod 10y more or less oppressive
governments in the past are the rca
'"'"iS lu the difference in surface char
"'''r between the men and women o
races and nations In the broad, deep
essential things there is little or m
u.HeIence between white and yellow
lhat is not much Of discovery. but |
IS well to keen IL in mind