The Washington herald., 1921-09-18

OF 100000 ms hrst magazine was called FRIEND OF
Women. A second magazine. called Friend OF Study
was launched eight years ago and now reports q
circulation Of 10000. Three years later, believing
thct children should longer be ignored she started
the Friend of the Child. which repaid her by speedily
jumping to circulation Of 10000. .,,,.,
M RS, HAM is very modern. Although she wears
Iva the japanese native dress she believes In the free
dom given by Western clothes and her two girls
the native costume only when occasion absolutely
demands it,
Widely known of the pioneer women
physicians OF the Empire Dr. Tomo Inouye came
into the field OF medicine because OF physical de-
feet In land Of small women DR.. Inouye is di-
minutve. too short to measure up to the require
ments tor nursing 1t through Sunday school
work among the poor that she became interested in
the bodily welfare Of children but she did not think
OF becoming physician On the advice of the
American doctor she went to America and studied
both homeopathy and allopathy. first in Cleveland
and then in Ann Arbor And this shows the fine
determination OF this tiny Japanese woman-she
worked her way through college, at first helper in
one OF the college and later as a lecturer
Japan.
Upon her return to Japan, she applied to the
government for license to practice. The government
was bewldered. There preceden-no Japan
csc woman doctor had ever been graduated from
American college before. What was to be done? 1t
took the government four years to find out.
1t was desperate struggle. The habit of look
ing upon woman merely as member of the do
mestic circle was too deeply ingraned. There was
profound conviction that women useful only as
wives mothers. A woman physician" cut directly
across this idea. Japan adjusted herself slowly
new ideas of womans place but eventually she did,
and now women doctors are in great demand. When
the physicians conference was held in New York
City two years ago, DR.. lnouye the doctor e.
lected to go from Japan delegate. This was
r-hr IN he State einre shs had o,d
received her diploma there eighteen years before
On the corner OF one of the principal shopping
streets Of Yokohama is brass shop, favorite shop
for tourists who find here the old and the new You
here the brass cooking kettle Of the Koreans the
samovar of Russian refugee forced TO sell it to
buy bread, the old temple taper lamp, modern brass
ash tray, match box dubious with the Tokugawa
seal. ready to be snapped up by souvenir hunting
tourist And it is just these trhes to catch the tourist
cash that has made this shop so successful that an
English firm recently offered 100000 yen for it, an
offer that refused by the who owns the
shop. For it is a woman who has built up this
business and turned the brass into gold-a woman
who on the death of her drunken husband ten years
ago fell heir to- nothing but a small shop dealing i'll
a desuitory way in brass objects. a.
There money. only the little shop, but
Mrs. Maxine Who before the death of her husband
had known nothing of business, said: 81 will make
this business l will make il the brass
shop OF Yokohama. will make and deal in brass
objects for all tastes And she did Therefore the
ancient Korean chest and the modern match box.
1t is along street after street lined with wine
casks and pungent with the odor of sake, in other
words through the wholesale wine district of Tokyo,
and into enclosure that takes the imagination
back, back to the Japan of long ago. that goes
to find Mrs. Chiyo Kashma, the wine mer-
chant. The gate in the high wooden fence is low,
purposely So for defense in the days when such de-
tense necessary, since STOPPING is at
a disadvantage. o.. ...
1t is easy to believe that the business is an old
one for the house itself bears every imprint of early
Meji architecture, when houses built with
sve beams. There is more than one house. really
group of buildings and offices which might have
served as feudal castle, sturdy and strong and