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Show JAPANESE ARC TRUE POETS. Chicago Club Woman Recalls Some of Their Characteristics. An observant Chicago club woman who rerontly returned from Japan tells tho following Interesting rhnrncterls tics of the "llltlo brown ninn" "He la olwa)H a student and nlways a poit The sight of an almond tree In full bloom will cause him to pour forth his admiration In Kjotry. which bo writes on (dreamers of rlro paiier and attaches to tho limbs of tho beau tlful pink llowerli'R tree. Such a tree may In a few days becomo tho shrlno of hundreds of devotees, endi Inspired by tho sight to a high pitch of poetic fervor, which vent Itself in tho form of more poems, so that before tho n) mond season Is over a whole orchard Is often n fluttering mass nt poetical tributes to tho beauties ot flora. "I havo known n hard working Jap nnoso to save a whole )oar In order to tnku his family on n trip to tho moun tains to hear and study the music o' a distant waterfall" |