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Japan's Sacred Mountain Of Fuji

direct from home to the sacred
heights, while others take in num-
ber Of shrines by the way.
Most Of the pilgrims, of course,
are poor. How, then, do they pay
their way? 1t is not an extensive
trip, to begin with, and every pill
grim belongs to a pilgrims associa-
ton, the members of which pay a
trifie for membership fee in the
hope of being so lucky as 10 draw
the lot that decides which member
Of the association will represent the
community in climbing Full that
season. 1t is a great honor, for he
conveys the respect and worship of
the whole community to the spirit
of the mountain. The various com
munity representatives of the same
district meet and form a party, trav-
cling together and putting up at the
same inn, in front Of which they
proudly float their banners. They
move slowly, not being in hurry,
as it is the slack time between rice
planting and harvest and the crop
can take care of itself.
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of it and try to solve it in practical
manner?
Already something is being done,
although indirectly and without dis
tinct purpose to promote marriage
| mean the work being done by the
community service organizations,
formerly the War Camp Community
Service organizations.
Already these community organt-
cations, firmly established in 100
cities, are providing recreation and
social opportunities for men and
women, bringing them together, Civ
ing them a chance to get acquainted
and. if they fill in love with each
ether, marry. repeat, this is not
the chief aim Of the community serv
ice organizations, but that is how it
works out.
The problem is to get the women
out of the places where they are in
the majority ard into other places
where there are more men. Some
time ago | ventured the suggestion
that the women in the East should
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killed in TIE World War and that
about 100000 Americans, in addi-
ton, had died Of wounds received
on the field.
"Why shouldn't we be forehand-
ed and provide for what is coming?"
She demanded. CAS- soon as the re-
strictions on travel are removed d
larger number Of women than ever
before viii come across the seas in
the secret hope OF finding husbands
in America. l say secret hope, be
cause this is the conscious or sub
conscious desire OF every woman, be
she maid or widow.
They will come to find men, be-
cause in their own countries men
are scarcer than ever before and
because the instinct Of the race to
love, marry and bear children VIII
cause them to rebel against loveless,
lonely and mateless lives.
But in Massachusetts, there are
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The Pilgrims

The average pilgrim is of the
peasant class. with some artisans,
10 all OF whom religion is a vital
thing, especially the side of it that
looks after the capricious moods
and ways of the more terrible del
ties and tries to keep them pacified.
The best of good hun.or prevails
among a crowd of Fuji pilgrims
during the trip, their camaraderie
extending even to strangers they fall
in with by the way. AS they toll up
the ashy, sloping sides of the cone
they chant a religious ditty, their
rosaries on their wrists. A huge
parasol-like hat is worn on the head
to keep off the torrid heat of the
summer sun, and yard or two OF
mating on the shoulder in case of
Z. shower. Each bears long white
staff of new wood, which is branded
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Inc Want Ad Courtship Advocated by Elizabeth Town

just then. She is large woman
who talks easily, using the flowing
phrases and persuasive gestures Of
many women who have gone in for
healing and public speaking. She
admitted she had been healer for
years before her duties as editor Of
Nautilus encroached on her time. In
appearance she was mostly remark
able for the striking contrast b.
tween her snow white hair and pink
cheeks. Her face was that of girl
who had put on wig for private
theatricals, yet she admitted read
lily enough that she was ffty-tivc
years old.
The interview covered wide
range before it settled down to the
subject of Mrs. Towne's own mari
tai romance and why lonely women
should advertise. Here are a few
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wife to share his life in the West.
Afterward the family lived for sew
eral years at Portland, Ore, where,
when sixteen years Of age, the
future leader of the New Thought
crs married young man named
Struble, with whom she lived for
sbcut sixteen years Then, finding
further existence together unendura-
bic, they were divorced, the husband
taking one of the two children, a
daughter. and the wife the son.
The Methodist Church, to which
Mrs. Towne then belonged, proved
disappointing to her, and she be-
came New Thoughter. For a time
she devoted herself to healing, but
gave this up to give all her time to
the Nautilus MAGAZINE.
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with her brightest smile "Why not7
We believe in equal rights to all
other things, including the fran
chise, why not equal rights in tho
choice of mate?
"The idea that a girl must wait
to be asked dates back to the time
when women were owned like cattle
and sold to the highest bidder with
out their consent.
"If girl has not enough tact to
win a proposal from the right man,
by all means let her pop the ques-
ton. 1t may be that he is lacking
in self-estcem and too diffident to
ask.
"Some men like to be proposed to.
! know several who accepted and arc
living happily ever after.
And if a man should refuse a
maid, what then? And if he should
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Try a " ant Ad

But this would not solve, the
problem of the mature women who
want husbands now, and to these l
say:
Advertise. By all means ad-
vertise in the newspapers or other
publications, if necessary
Il admit it ought not to be neces-
sary for women to advertise for
husbands. Nor would | permit girls
of sixteen or seventeen to do it, un-
less the arrangements were super
vised by some person of maturity
and Judgment. This person of ma
turity would be the matchmaker,
and, at heart, isn't this what every
mother is? Isn't she always ON the
lookout for a good match for her
daughter? Isn't shat the absorbing
ambition of her life? And don't
the Jcws-that is, the old-fashioned
Jews-have matchmakers who are
regularly employed bringing men
and women together in marriage?
''It ought not be necessary for
women to advertise, I admit. Every
community should provide ample
opportunities for social intercourse
and municipal and social super
vision. If nothing better offers,
mayors Of cities might become
matrimonial agents, as one mayor
did become in Western city a few
wears apo
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Both Still Satisfied

"No" Gas comfortably as before}.
Neither of us was. And We have
not been since. Though we have
been married twenty years we've
rever had a serious disagreement.
Mrs. Towne added that these who
believed in and practiced New
Thought had a greater chance of
marital happiness than others. So
as to make herself quite clear she
gave definition of New Thought
Here it is:
New Thought is the science
(know how and the art (the doing
Of the recognition. realization and
expression of the good within"
Practicing this, the exasperations
Of wedlock vanish like shadows at
the approach of day.
There have been others believing
in New Thought who met as did my
husband and l." Mrs Towne went
on. 'T think twenty-five or thirty
couples met through hearing of each
other through Nautilus Magazine.
Every one is happy. I have never
known New Thought couple com
ing in contact through Nautilus
Magazine TO be unhappy"
There was trifle too much OF ad-
vertising for Nautilus Magazine in
this and the conversation went back
to Mrs. Towne's household.
She admitted that the financial ar
rangement of her menage was con-
Quoted by her husband and self on
a fifty-fifty basis.
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Towne, you know, also believed in
New Thought He was, as now a
publisher of New Thought bookc
He wanted to know the rates for
advertising these in Nautilus, and
it was this way our correspondence
started.
II answered and Mr.. Towne wrote
again. 1t was not exactly as if we
had been entire strangers to each
ether, because he was a writer on
New Thought topics, and I had seen
his name in a little publication
called The Free Man, published by
DR.. Charles Close, of Bangor, Ne.
"He wrote still again asking ad-
vice in certain matters, and we be-
gan to correspond regularly on sub
jects not related to advertising. This
was in 1898, and we corresponded
for two years"
"And then did you come East"
l inquired.
ITO Holyoke, yes" she smiled.
with the understanding that you
were to marry Mr. Towne?"
Il had promised to marry him-if
we liked each other after meeting.
You see, we had never met. and
wanted to see if we would be dis
appointed.
"And were you?" (Oh. the fear
lessness of the hardened inter-
viewerO
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Thought who met and wed the same
way and found happiness.

Thought who met and wed the same
way and found happiness.
She was sitting T. the reception
room of her big, red brick home on
Oak Street, and neither she nor her
surroundings was exactly what
had anticipated. had somehdw got
the idea through reading the works
of some Of its apostles that New
Thoughters were mystics who went
in for robes decorated with signs of
the Zodiac.
On the contrary, Mrs. Towne's
home is much like that owned by
any one else VINO has grown wealthy
and able to afford such luxuries as
fine rugs, big, inviting divans, nice
pictures on the walls and comforta-
BILE wall seats, offering an excellent
view through the windows Of the
surrounding country.
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Her Own Romance

From this to how the High Priest
ess got her own husband, and why
others less fortunate should adver-
tise, was short step, easily accom-
plished. Only, of course, the per-
sonal was left to the last. Mrs
Towne was by this time talking
easily and well, and knew it, and
both of us were enjoying the inter
view.
She recalled the fact that about
II 100000 European men had beer
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If No Husband Comes A-Wooing,
Girls Are Advised to Try Ad-
vertislng for One

should 1t saves a lot of explain
'hg' replied Mrs. Towne. "No
woman, however, modern, wants to
oe constantly explaining that the
man she is living with is her hus-
band"
Mrs. Towne then went on to tell
how she had been wooed and won
by her husband-he is her second
-ehroogh correspondence, adding
that she knew twenty-five or thirty
other couples believing in New
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4 Good Talker

True, there was cat which
leaped. tail erect and eyes aglow.
onto the head rest Of a chair, but
the brief agitation occasioned by
this apparition died away when the
visitant developed into a gentle croa-
ture desiring only TO be noticed and
petted.
Mrs. Towne came into the room
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The Profane Are Barred

Evil people are not permitted to
ascend it. This precaution was over-
looked in the case of a profane for
eigner, who went up the noted vol
cano Asama to get moving picture
views Of the crater; and his descent
into the orifice to be photographed
so offended the spirit Of the noun
tain that for three years afterWard
the entire community for miles
round was daily terrified by the
fearful noises made by the noun
tain, which not only shook the earth
all around, but emitted dreadful
fumes and elected stones a distance
of twenty miles.
The first two weeks of August
form the grand season each year for
the ascent of Full, though ore may
90 up any time between the middle
of July and the first of September.
IN the climbing season all roads and
railways are swarmiug with white
clad pilgrims. whose gently tinklinq
bells announce their missions. Par
ties are all sizes, from two to two
hundred, and one may see them
struggling about in all towns and
railway stations within one hundred
miles of the mountain. Some 90
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Should Take His Name

why should man pay all the
expenses if his wife is earning
money? | believe she should take
his name, yes, but that is only be-
cause 1t is the sensible thing to do.
When | married the second time nv
name already was worth something
in a professional way, and 80 for q
year | ran both my name and nv
husbands at the top of the maga-
zine. When the year had elapsed
and the change had been sufficiently
advertised / dropped my name and
adopted his This was only prac-
teal, sane and wise, and has saved
a lot Of needless explaining"
The interview ended, Mrs. Towne
shook hands graciously and bowed
me through the door.
Yes she said, by way of round
ing out the interview, "yoa may
say believe that women who want
husbands should, if necessary. adves-
tise for them, and be Just a. sensi-
BILE and practical about that rs any
thing else"
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interesting bits she threw off in the
course of the preliminary talk:

interesting bits she threw off in the
course of the preliminary talk:
IF a woman would keep her hus-
band loving she must make love-
win him every day-do things to
please and surprise him, dress for
him, coquet with him.
"The refusal to have children in
the early years of marriage is the
one obstacle to the evolution of a
real marriage between any two nor
NAL human beings.
AS to the eternal triangle, any
marital poacher can start one by
finding a married philanderer to be
Gin with"
Naturally, with this for a begin
ming the temptation to ask the ven
erablc question whether women
now having the vote, should also as
sumo the right to propose, was too
great to be overcome; but Mrs.
Towne answered it as spiritedly as
if it were the first time she had
heard it.
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making indecent exposures of their
callous hearts, the poor things.
"No, see no reason why wom-
an should not propose marriage to
the man she loves"
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Propinquity and Love

THE problem is to bring these
separated ones together. We know
that propinquity is tbree-fourths of
love. But how to get them together?
How to equalize things and give the
men and women fair chance?
That is the question. And why, in
view of its Importance, cannot the
country take common sense view
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Divide the Expense

When the husband and wife are
both employed outside the home
they should share the expenses OF
maintaining the home she de-
ciared, voluntarily and without
prompting from me. THAT is ex-
actly what my husband and | have
oeen doing since we married twenty
gears ago. No woman should ask
o'r husband to support her unless
she runs his home, performing all
Inc functions of wife and mother
Yet you took your husbands
name" I suggested, having in mind
another woman celebrity who re-
Gently won much publicity by her
uleerances On two breakfasts a week
sho separate establishments.
OF course. All married women
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
BY Arnold Prince

<<C HOULD woman advertise
IVA through the newspapers
~ for husbands? Certainly.
My husband and I met
through correspondence, under con-
ditions similar to advertising, and
neither of US has ever regretted it."
The person talking was not one of
those who contribute regularly to
the department on advice to the
Lovelorn.' y
She was no less parsonage than
Elizabeth Towne, high priestess of
New Thought. who has three lines
more spaee in The current issue of
Who's VINO in America than
Thomas pAey Marshall, Vice -Presi-
dent of the United States.
As set forth by Who's Who Mrs.
Towne was for two years a director
Of the Massachusetts, Federation OF
r Women's Clubs. She is first vice
president Of the Hampden County
Mass Women's Club and chairman
Of the Holyoke {Mass.) Open Forum
instituted by the Women's Municipal
League to hear addresses by distin-
guished personages and debate i'm
portant problems. She was secre.
tary for Hampden County of the
women's committee of the Council of
National Defense, and is the editor
of course-I say of course because
this should have BEEN mentioned
frst-of Nautilus Magazine. which
is the Ark Of the Covenant to New
Thoughters.
Fourteen Times an Author
She has written fourteen books
and her editorials, if collected into
one mass. would easily fill fourteen
more.
She expressed her belief in women's
advertising for husbands in ths
course Of an interview at her home
at Holyoke, Mass, in which she gave
her views on feminism, happiness
marriage, divorce and parenthood
do not know if New Thought
teaches everything that Mrs. Towne
breaches, but if it does it certainly
cannot be criticized on the score Of
not keeping up to date.
Mrs. Towne, who was close
close friend of the late Ella Wheeler
Wilcox was inspired to advocate ad-
vertising as a method of uniting
lonely hearts, because, she says
there are 10000 women in excess Of
men in Massachusetts,, and because
the unfavorable ratio, not alone il
that state but throughout the coun-
try, is faced with increase as add
iional minated women cross tn,
seas from Europe. where so many
men were killed in the war.
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Start of the Romance

One day-it is here the romance
starts-a man wrote from Holyoke,
Mass, asking for advertising rates.
at was Mr.. Towne," said the
prlestess in her gentle voice. "Mr.
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4 Feminine Invasion

We are threatened with an in
vasion Of the feminine unwed, thinks
Mrs. Towne, and as something
should be done, there is no reason
why it shouldn't be done sensibly.
Mrs. Towne, it may be added, is
intensely modern in all matters re
lating to femnism, but has fixed
views on marriage and the manage
ment Of the home when husband and
wife both are employed outside the
domicile in making living. She
say something at this point which
would like to emphasize because Of
its bearing on subject which pearly
wrecked my early. enthusiasm for
suffrage and sadly warped my faith
IN 4 young woman writer employed
by Western newspaper. 3,
This Young woman conducted
what was cslled a woman's page
and in response to her invitation |
wrote what | believed to be a stir
ring article on "Won<n in the IN
dustrlal World" concluding with the
suggestion that many such women
were acting setishly. A job, l
argued solemnly, was intended to
support a home, and if the women
insisted on taking the good jobs
away from the men. would they at
the same time agree. in part at
east. to support the home? ] in
qulred animatedly.
may say that my sole purpose
IN writing the article was to start
discussion in the columns con-
Quoted by the young woman, and so
increase the number of her readers,
but instead of thanking me for my
good intentions she threw most Of
the article into the waste-paper
basket and refused to have anything
10 do with me afterward.
But Mrs. Towre-ah, there is a
woman after my own heart.
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by the priest who presides over each
of the ten stations up the incline.
The first ten miles of the journey
up the cone can be done on horse
back, if one likes, though none of
the pilgrims can afford this: but it
is a tremendous help to get this lift
5000 feet up. There are five trails
by which you can ascend, all not
equally easy, by any means. If the
weather is fine magnificent views
of the surrounding landscape for
nearly a hundred miles are afforded
all the way up, but should rain come
on, one sees nothing, and may as
well turn back, as storm on the
heights is no fun One may be
storm-stayed for days in a tiny hut
with many others. The experience
is so suffocating that no one ever
has desire to repeat it. Sometimes
the storm is Of snow, even in sum
mer, and the heights are always cold.
Extinct Volcanoes
Full is 1866 feet in height, and
only 200 years ago was an active
volcano. There are still signs Of
fire in the jets of steam that squirt
from parts Of the cone, though one
may now descend the ,crater with
safety All about the base are great
boiling springs, hot enough to cook
an egg in minute. These are
known as Ojigohu, or Great He'll"
Whether the idea was taken from
the Bible or not is not known. But
Buddhism has plenty of hell OF its
own. Some 100000 pilgrims ascend
the cone every year; and this year,
bsing a special one in sixty, accord
ing to the japanese calendar, the
number was much greater than
usual.
The first woman to set foot on the
top of Fujl was Lady Parkes. wife
f the first British Minister to Japan
Sir Harry Parkes; and she accom-
pished the feat in 1867, when there
was not mile of railway in Japan
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already 10000 women in excess of
men, and there are more women
than men in other parts of the
country.
81 do not say this is true every
where IN the United States, because
in. some parts the men outnumber
the women.
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Dividing the Work

He not only pays his half OF the
expenses, but under the terms OF the
partnership looks after the furnace.
Mrs. Towne has general charge of
the servants. She pays for her own
clothes and he pays for his. If the
relatives Of either come to the house
on a visit the additional expense to
the household is charged up to the
one who issued the invitation.
gathered from this that when the
relatives came uninvited Mr. and
Mrs. Towne shared equally in pay
ing the bill.
"The one proposing extras pays
for them" she summed up We
believe this is wise and right.
Husbands and wives who work for
their living outside the home should
be like brothers and sisters in mat
ters Of money. Marriage mas its
business side as well as its love
side"
"But about the little privileges,
the"-
''Privileges7" Mrs. Towne cut in.
''The modern woman does not want
privileges. She wants only rights.
Privileges are the reminders of the
slave days, when men owned the
women and it was up to them to
keep them well. That sort Of thing
is gone. Women to-day are willing
to do their share, in the home, ir
love, in politics.
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The Right to Propose

Should woman propose mar
riage to a man." she echoed. Then,
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The New Thought Leader Didn' t
Exactly Do That, but Her Court
ing Was Done by Mail

take the advice Of the late Horace
Greeley and go West. I'm be-
lever in William Jamess moral
equivalent for war, and I would
conscript school girls and school
boys for work in the fields as this
equivalent. this would at lest
bring the sexes together and give
them chance to wed.
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NNUJI is the name of Japan's
Il most famous mountain, and,
Il writes the japanese corre-
spondent Of The London
Morning Post, no Japanese thinks
anything Of himself until he has
made some effort to ascend its sa-
cred heights To climb l7uji is a
religious duty to most Japanese.
while only a pleasure to some and q
boast to others. It's graceful cone.
like an inverted fan, is so familiar
TO all admirers of Japanese art that
it needs no description here. But in
Japan every mountain has spirits;
and the spirit Of beautiful or awe
inspiring mountain is to be strictly
respected.
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uC HOULD woman advertise
As& through the newspapers
~ for husbands? Certainly.
Nv husband onA ,,,o4