The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-01

| III IdCL cOulQ make m whole let
ter about Honolulu but as i have
lots more l want to write about /
can only touch little bit On eacl
place.
We are steaming north west for
| Yokohama, Japan, and have 10 days
before us before we see land again.
One could not be lonesome on this
boat as you meet so ma ny interest
ing people, most of them having
lived in the Orient and some in the
South Sea Islands and they tell most
interesting stories of their life and
experience in the Far East
My room mate has lived many
years in several Of the South Is
lands and he keeps me laughing
with his well told stories. We also
have aboard several missionaries
| and their large families bound f1r
Japan, China, the PhilIi pine Islands
and some for the smaller islands
! For amusement we have most ey-
erything on board that you can find
ashore, with the exception of hors
racing and football. We have a
fine base ball nine, deck golf, ten
mis-. dancing, moving pictures a
swimming tank, and q list of eX-
pert bridge players that would maxi
| big bridge party, also the Japa-
nese sailors will give a series OF
! japanese sports such as fencing.
wrestling matches and two japanese
dramas which will be very interest
ing. All the female parts on the
stage in Japan and China are taken
( by men but they are so clever in
their make up and speech it is hard
to detect that they are men and not
women. Their costum eS are COR
geous and their music and singing
/ quite different from ours.
Saturday night We had a mask
ball The costumes worn by the
ladies were beautiful, the men rent
ed theirs from the curiO shop on the
boat. 1t seems funny to see a Japa-
nese orchestra playing all the latest
one steps and fox trot music. The
Captains dinner Sunday night will
! wind up our first seen es of enter
| tainments as quite large number
# tAe young society set will leave
| the ship in Yokohama and we will
: take on a new crowd
We reached the docks in Yoko-
hama Monday night at s O'Clock and
il was pouring rain put such funny
sight greeted our eyes that | coulo
| not resist going ashore.
There were hundreds of Jinrick-
shaw men on the docks, each one
/ with a lighted Japanese paper Ian
tern and large paper parasol 20
keep off the rain from the deck of
| the ship. 1t looked like large gar
/ den party. We enjoyed our first
/ Jinrickshaw ride all over the prin-
/ cipal part of the city even if it was
pouring rain
The shops and bazars were very
! attractive. Next morning we had
an early breakfast and lost no time
in getting back to the business sec
! ton to see the many odd and cur
ious sights and to go Through all the
shops
The American and European sec
I ton of Yokohama is very fine. Nice
! large stone and brick modern build
ings, fine hotels and quite a number
of American stores. a fter two DAYS
in Yokohama we took the electric
train over to Yokyo which is the
capital of Japan and by far, too
beautiful to attempt a description.
The Japanese Palace and the gov
ornmental buildings are equal to
those in Europe, also the hotels,
temples and parks are beautiful.
You will be surprised when tell
you that Tokyo has an up to date
department store built of white mar
Bile, stories high and just as mod
Sl II anu pASIts DIS all II1uS III New
/ York City. Tle store was crowded
with Japanese ladies looking for bar
gains just like you see at Richs in
Atlanta on Monday mornings. On
entering this store you are required
TO remove your shoes and they fur
nish you with white felt slippers as
the flCCrs are covered with eXuui-
site Wh'ie mating and not one
speck of sell Or dirt d. you see, also
on entering the temples and theatres
you are required to remove your
shoes. Tokyo is a city of two mill
lion inhabitants with so many
things of interest to see it would be
tiresome to enumerate
At the suggestion Of the cour-
tecus management of the Imperial
Hotel in Tokyo we made side trip
out TO Kamakura where we saw
some of the fine old temples and
shrines, also the great bronze
statue of Buddha. We also went