The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-10-22
ODDITIES IN JAPAN
Natives Have a Topsy TurW
Way Of Doing Many Things.
BATHING is A SACRED RITE.
And Whenever a Native Has . Mo.
msnt to Spare Ho Resorts to the Tub
With its Peculiar Code Of Ethics.
Houses Without Windows,

With lite Peculiar Code OF tthies
Houses Without Windows.
lust cant get used To how turned
around. upside down, inside out, topsi
turyy. things are In japan a Japn'
nese carpenter draws the plane toward
himself, and u blacksmith sits down 10
work.
A japanese blacksmith never knows
the Joys OF getting tickets TO the circus.
for he hasn't any place for the advance
man to paste up his three sheets Tue
whole front of japanese blacksmith
shop Is open. with other buildings Jam
med up 30 close on ench side that the
circus man couldn't get poster In.
A Japanese book begins Oh our last
page aud finishes IN our first para
graph And their sentences begin At
the top Of the page md read down. like
long columns Of figures. They wear
white to funerals aud Judge poetry by
the beauty NJ the handwriting
japanese houses haven't amy chin
neys. so YOU may see n whole plateau
VI houses with not u single curl OF
smoke ns far as the eye can reach. The
japanese cooking II done outside the
house In little charcoal stove. They
have no stoves TO keep themselves
warm. only little bllachls, gallon jar
with charcoal In them covered with
fnc ashes. There Isn't enough heat In
one 10 SINCE miller, and whenever
they get too cold they take n warm
bath.
Battling Is n sacred rite. Whenever
they have n spare moment they run
and take bath When business II dull
they hurry to public bnthlouse and
jump In. n they MISS one train they
take bath while waiting for the next
They take hot baths stcnmlng, slz
zllng hot. Aud the sirnnge thing Is they
don't do the bathing In tub. They
have little foot baths about the size Of
crooks that they use for washing them
selves. and when they are thoroughly
clean they climb into the tub
II you should get into the tub first
the proprietor would break into tcnrs
and tell You that you were bnnkruptlng
him, for the same wnter IL used NIL
evening no difference how many guests
the hotel has.
After soaking awhile they crawl out
stcnmng all over, gently blot them,
selves. get into kimonos and sit around
bare anklcd. One would think that be
fore the evening was over fleet foot
ed runner would have 10 be- dispatched
for medical assistance, hut Instead Of
that they never catch cold
When got hero and was invited into
japanese home found that they
hadn't any chairs In fact, there isn't
n stick Of furniture n foot high In u
Japanese house You have 10 sit on the
floor A person " my build was never
meant for sitting on the floor When
get down on the floor aud try 10 draw
up 10 Japnnese table my feet ARE ~
IL the way that | can't gcl up to where
there IS anything doing The waitress
has TO walk around my feet to bring me
the ylands. by the tune tie meal Is
over she IL pretty well tagged out
4 Japanese house hasn't single
window. Aud It's only the most stylish
Of houses that have pane Of glass
A person who has pane u glass
somewhere In his house sets the social
pace In that nclghborhood. Instead of
glass they have paper pasted ON sliding
frames. aud through the paper the
light filters Naturally one wonders
how they keep the rain out This Is
little trouble. for outside the paper
walls are series Of wooden doors,
which also slide back mud forth.
When time comes To retire you look
around for the bed. hut there isn't one
In sight It Is rolled mp In n drawer,
and the japanese wouldn't know a
bcdstend from quilting frame. NIL
lions NJ people In Japan have grown
to manhood. voted, paid taxes and
gone 10 their reward without ever hay.
ing clapped eyes on an American bed
stead
To make the bed ready the servant
opens the drawer and unrolls the quilts
on the nuor putting tomato can look
ing thing under one end for a pillow
Then she shuts nll the roper Window
and pulls tn all the wooden slides 20
thut not breath " air Eau rct In and
the bed Is ready Money In the palm
wouldn't persuade Japanese to slrcl
with the window open.
Their theory Is that during the dn,
the air becomes full Of dust and germ
so that II You keep your Window
sealed during the nlrht none OF thu
germs can get In. Homer Croy In les
Hes Weekly.
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