Abilene weekly reflector., 1922-08-03

American sleeper. The aisle or co
70 ridor is down one side and the re
"A Of the car is divided into little room
Is Each room has two long seats IN,
X Ing each other and the backs OF thes
q seats are pulled out and mp TO max
Il he upper berths. The boy was NOR
h clever In making up the berths tina
d are our p0rters at home and every
q thing was very seat and clean. How
I ever there are no separate toilets 10
g men and women go we could no
{. wash. After we were all in bed tn
Y corridor door was closed and we wer
I supposed TO sleep but did not as 1
' was too awful hot.
We reached KyOto at 1880 ant
went to the Kyoto hotel where
stopped the other time ] came out
: This was a very magnificent hOte
the other time but loOEs somewhat
) delapidated and barren now. When
was here before was Just after the
coronation Of the emperor and every
thing was "spruced" up. However
we did have a good breakfast and a
chance to wash which was more I'M
portant. We spent the forenoon Wis.,
iting shops and little places called
facoties where they make the differ
ent artistic things for which Japan
is famous. We also went to one
very large temple, the Choin-in-
Buddhist temple. and were fortunate
enough to happen there while SER
vice was going on. There Is one man
who sits and bests a tomtOm all the
time when there Is no service going
on The high priest and several
other priests came in from back
somewhere. The high priest sat
with his back to the audience, or
rather to the open door as there was
no audience, and the others took
their places before little desks ar
ranged along the sides. They sat on
the floor between these little desks
and chanted what seemed to be the
midst Of 1t beat little gong and
beat two pieces of bone together. !
just wonder IL they themselves knew
what they were doing and saying |
should have liked to have seen the
service through but time was flying !!
so we went on to see the enormous
hell which is rung by pulling big |
beam against it. 1t is only rune on
special occasions and can be heard |
all over the county. These temples
must have cost large sums Of money
Judging from the extent Of the
grounds and the amount of gold and
bronze everywhere about them.
Our church does not have much
work at Kyoto but does have one
resident missionary. We visited the
church mission school and had sup
per there and took the train for
Kobe at Z 80, reaching there at 9:30.
The old ship looked mighty good to
rs and I did not awaken this morn
ing until nearly 9:30.
The thing that impressed me most
,bout japan this time was the abso-
ute quietness of the place. There
vas no noise whatever. Everyone
seemed to be going about their own
business and saying nothing to any
IN. In the first place the Jinricka-
haw is an absolutely noiseless ve-
licle.
Another thing chat impressed me
vas that there 4. were no beggars.
some of the people seemed to be {
cry poor but everybody seemed to '
lave something to do and was busy ,
Ioing it and the people seemed happy 8
which is a great contrast to India. I
rhe streets were filled with women t
md children and which of course is
llso very unlike India. Prices here
lave gone up and the English and
,thcr foreigners seem to have be- I
'ome more unpopular. I
The first bell for dinner has rung s
md / must close. / have made so 6
many mistakes, being unused to the .
typewriter, that you may have !
rouble in reading this bat not so
much as you would if l had written
" hand.
I forgot to tell of very inter
sting experience we had in kyot0.
n the afternoon we took a motor
ar and went to river in the noun
aims and then took a boat down the
|
vas full of rapids so was very thrill
ng.. Rising high above the river on
'ither side We're the beautiful Japan
,se mountains of hills absolutely Gov
red with green trees.
l expected to mail this at Nagasaki
mt did not do so. Spent yesterday
II Nagasaki and had Il nice time pok-
ng about the little shops although it
vas raining Also visited our girls
mission school there. The sun came
mt just as we were leaving the har-
,or and ii was the most beautiful
'art of the trip. There are so many
title islands rising like mountains
II around the coast and bays of
apan.
We reach Shanghai this evening
nd l may see Edith Youtsey of
lexington there as / telegraphed her
rom Toxic There are also a num-
'er of other people there l know and
whom l hope to see but will have
cry little time there as we anchor
nut mile and half from shore and
cave again at noon tomorrow.
MY cabin mate is rather wealthy
nd footed the bills for trips through
apan, otherwise l should have
missed most of ii.
SIDESINGER CAR STOLEN