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Show il Hedged About with Ceremony. I There is a good deal of ceremony ob-lerfedabouta ob-lerfedabouta royal progress in Japan, Is witness the following regulations published pub-lished fr the guidance of the people Ifhen the empress recently visited the lit? of Osaka: "When her majesty shall Ym along no one must look at her from the frame built on houses for the drying If clothes, or through cracks in doors, or 1mm any position in the upper portion I.? their houses. If anybody wishes to 1 her majesty he or sho must sit down jut the side of the road by which her Inajesty will pass. No one must look at tier majesty without taking off his hat, neckcloth or turban, or whatever else he Jjiay be wearing on or about his head. Moreover, no one must be smoking while lie or she is looking at her majesty, nor Imust any one carry a stick or cane. Only liromen wearing foreign clothes will be ;iennitted to retain their head covering. Although it may rain, up person will be I allowed to put up an umbrella while her majesty may he passing. As her majesty pusses no one must raise bio voice, nor must any sound be heard, nor must the crowd close in and follow her carriage, lor no noise must be made. When her majesty reaches Umeda station there Iwill be a discharge of fifty fireworks." |