The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
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beauty of Fujiyama with its silver
| crown has come to he "A little dreaded.
But town and country as they show the
! trace of man are a never ending sur
prise and often a delight.
The crowded streets of the towns and
their ever cheerful, ever busy corners
and gOers and doors are to me of un-
failing interest 1t is all SO quaint. so
! intimate so open to the world. There
are big important buildings here and
there Of Western type, but the long
! lines of the business streets Of low, two
| story houses or even in the poorer dis
tricts of one story that stretch on each
side Of the roadway with their perpen-
| dicular banneret signs in ideographs
are the real Japan.
About two dozen kinds of shops and
stores repeat themselves endlessly.
Glass fronts are rare; most are open,
| the wares on "A floor or "A platform little
raised above the street level, the owner
| -shopman or ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
smiingly and watchful over the display.
which may he numberless varieties of
| the bakers art artistic groupings of
fresh fish or vegetables or CrOckery or
wooden clogs. a florist, book store, a
tirewood store, a little tea house, an
occasional saki twine) shop. Then the
carpenter sits on the floor saving and
planning, the blacksmith squats while
his helper stands and swings the sledge
the carver works demurely squatted in
a corner, the matchmaker squats on
neat carpet.
Babies abound the mothers carrying
them about on their backs; sometimes
growing, sometimes asleep. After school
| L., Ia. ,.,I
thither. Men come and go looking
something like Roman Senators, some
times like monks. but all naively Jap
lanese. Rickshaws tkurumas they call
them here) trundle past AT "A jog trot,
the little patient runners bent forward,
warning people with soft III Hi''
| You have missed something?
Horses. You are in land of man
power. There are bicycles. In all
Toxic of 2OOO. 900 inhabitants there are
700 automobiles. Men drawing two
wheel carts with impossible loads toll
, past saw thirteen men drawing "A
large roller along a wide newly paved
avenue; a boy filling a small watering
cart with a bucket fastened to a pole
and then sprinklng 1t over the road
way | saw man dragging a heavily
a baby on her back pushing behind, and
their son of about 10 years also push
ing-the whole family at 1t.
They carry great loads too on long
i, poles resting on their shoulders with
a great basket at either end, In city
> or country It is the same. There ar,
draught horses and horses for the
, plough, but very few. In town or coun-
rt,I
4 why not?" | asked.
because all his neighbors would say
what an unkind man." was the simple
q apparently sufficing answer.
1t was at the Toxic exposition tina
o first saw great crowds Of the holida,
seeking Japanege Such gatherini
of jolly, wondering humanity-th'
whole family. from grandfather to in
a FAINT in arms, all brought along, thou
, sands and thousands, eating, drnklnl
|, tea, smoking ridiculous little pipes. AM
q the exposition itself. like other expo
u 'itions. the marvel being that every
=. thing was made in Japan, from pot
II terry to pearls. even to fine mathemati
10 cal instruments and dentists chairs,
!. At night there is IA little glare, eN
:. 'rpt where the movies have take
4 up their stand by the theatres, wher
ar great arc lights flare, All the rest
le dim and picturesque, with hangn
10 lamp or lantern, and they go to be
m early. You think afterward of II
ne lines of busy streets, and you are awar
IL that the roofs stand out as the mo-
ie pictorial thing after the varied she
it fronts.
e. In Toxic, Kioto, Osaka, all Il
larger cities, the little houses hay
lis heavy rooftrees, curved roofs and wild
IS. overhanging leaves. all in tiles of
Mt lleaden bronze nearly all detached. thf