Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-07-30
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Secrets That Came to the Mountain
on Wings of the Morning

secrets That Came TO. the mountain
on Wings of the Morning
IMPERIAL HOTEL. TOKYO.
DEACOCK ALLEY, a western
i institution unequaled as a
source of publicity and brought
into existence by George Boldt
when he built the Waldorf in New
York, has a branch here.
Like the old P. A. of Fifth avenue
and Thirty-fourth street, where the
Empire State building now spikes
the sky for a worlds record, the
Tokyo promenade supplies quite an
eyeful to those who would look and
see.
Pageantry of all peoples; pass
ing show bewildering in its variety
and color; warp and wool of the
world. India, Asia, Africa, the
drab, inquisitive European; the
borded Briton, the ambitious show
me American, in funds, and also in
trade, each on his own, pass in
spectacular review.
Detaching themselves from the
procession, man and woman,
dressed in dark colored ceremonial
kimonos indicating some sect in
native priesthood, took seats imme-
diately adjoining mine and became
absorbed in the panorama.
Without loss of time I made a
remark in English, to which the
man replied in kind. "My wife,"
said he, "does not understand your
language. She is here in Tokyo for
the first time. Our home is on
Mount Koya, at the Shingon Bud
dhist seat founded eleven hundred
years ago by Kobo Daishi. ! am a
priest"
Clergyman Takes Bride
care Buddhist priests permitted
to marry?"
ooh, yes, for many years under
Shingon matrimony has been en-
couraged. My present visit to
Tokyo has to do with arrangements
for the marriage of young Bud
dhist clergyman of the Shingon
sect, now residing in California.
"For more than a thousand years
the priesthood on Mount Koya,
which is scored with temples, were
not allowed to marry or to eat
meat, nor were women permitted
within the sacred precincts conse-
Grated to Buddhist teachings.
with the advance of modern
thought it was deemed expedient
t. introduce marriage, although
vegetarian diet continued for some
time. Gradually, however, the re-
strictions against meat were brok-
en- down, the wives of the priest
hood and the priests themselves
taking rather kindly to the mixed
diet, which brought about a pro-
nounced physical improvement
among the disciples and their chill
dren. A sensible and progressive
step, I regard it."
At this juncture of the conversa-
ton two Hindu women, CARRIED in
flowing silken robes and bedecked
with gold bracelets, bangled rings
and anklets jangling softly as they
moved down Peacock Alley, passed
in front of us.
New World Opens Up
With wide eyes the wife of the
Buddhist priest watched the dusky
women of India saunter along, jos
tied by Europeans and Japanese
women clothed in rainbow hued
flowing kimonos, their dark hair
arranged in modish fashion and
cleaning with decorations.
Cali of this beauty appears to-
night for the first time to my wife's
eyes," said the priest, himself
lured by it's splendor. "She will
talk endlessly of these things when
we return to the sacred mountain,
and there is no knowing what
thoughts will come to her."
The sound of music drifting in
from ballroom off the promenade
smote our ears. Through the pro-
cession of human peacocks thin
ming out at intervals we caught
glimpses of dancers.
g. and of the Western world
gliding, laughing without restraint
and merging thus" continued the
holy man from Mount Koya, where
for centuries his forebears walked
in the cool of the morning and ac-
companied with their prayers the
setting sun, "she has known moth
ing until now. That which is writ
ten upon her face betrays nought
but uncertainty"
Cooking Via Radio
"The sun also rises,"'I said.
eyes" he replied, "but will it
set? The sky is filed with color
and the air with new voices"
"You refer to radio? Has this
speech upon the ether reached the
mountain of the faithful?"
eyes, but of these things would
speak with approval, for it is on
the invisible wave that my wife