Show V I 1 L 11 lm I 1 t aasi i dyiss B t e I 1 as sa lav ady seam I 1 adl europea i e I 1 y ass sim X M the 0 e market the jap jal ow th the rest of djs bus ma however ht wever to aria this india t destro sa C the Euro european Peau match trade in ha hadnot rs not e kong but so tar far tt it affected the tradell bradec in any ny i r extent that at it will do so certain mr in the p inlow tor robert P porter S porter says saya that aurin tola his stay in japan oil an off mission lot investing lt the e output of at least one barce match si in usako avak ean io syndicate t produced Prod ocea lat year MO boxes of matches employing men en and women wo men to say SAT nothing or of the innumerable children who eurn s few se U gl day ar ln in the work ork one of factories factor i lw the e large largest at employ 2500 hands hand the sticks are cut cot by y machinery they are alfted into little wooden boxes by women and collected and put in f frame ra r aes by tiny aalfs waifs of children some of 01 whom do not look to be over three erfour or conr years old and the majority of whom are under ten the sulphur and paraffin ae are put on by baud presses and then dried by the tee sun the boxes are made and the labels put on nn b by little girls whose fingers are so BO nimble that the hinnan eye Is incapable of following their movements as the purple and yellow boxes drop more than one a second ill into huge baskets at their sides over twelve hours a dy day these the little creatures labor for wages which range from I 1 cent to 5 cents cent of our money here the wonderfully der fully cheerful temperament of the japanese Is sen keen to perfection they sing and shatter chatter and lauah and eat their ti tiffin effin co consisting n of rice and fish from tiny boxes w with ith chopsticks chop sticks which they handle with as aa much dexterity as they do the matches I 1 here they sit tile the twelve long lon hours on the floor in small pens about four feet square marked off hy by bare wo 00 poles and no espres 1 slon of discontent la is ever seen there are no factory lawand no regulations as aa to the age at w which ach children should begin work and no limitations of hours of labor in japan for the moment there is a scramble to utilize every pair of bright eyes and dex berous hands rec regardless ardless of future consequences quen ces but tho the government and the sanitary sanita ta ft authorities have taken the matter up a and n adin in a tew few years in all likelihood a more humane system will be evolved |