Show I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i A STA ST ANCER flANGER IN N JAPAN no he was beatea B ia the bett best vat bat the iselt eit was idether ji A t her odd 5 h I 1 hail bad read about kir life in washa embarrassing a experience experienc aper lenea a to be set down ford for the first ti m my y baggage in ia 1 a i japanese room and to try and adapt myself man mentally tally to la the possibilities of living under writes alfred parsons in harpers magazine in i a bare hut or tho problem em Is comparatively r actively I 1 R impat 1 there 0 ona a a ay L by w which hiell you yon must enter but blit in a JaIn japanese nese room there ishoo Is loo much liberty thra of tha are opaque op tatie sli sliding aln tt screens reens the fourth is a rent daj athera h one you can caa coin in or gei out where yoi soa like there is no table on which thia things mu must st be ba puts put no chair on an ird must sit iid no fireplace vo tio stand stana chih with your back bac to lo aids i t a clean matted floor aad perfect freedom of choi choicy ch oicA ct Europ egl trunks s rat I 1 hopelessly nope lessly aly and uy sympathetic in such roua Aings nor are matters mula inva improved when the hos 14 t la a defor defer ance 1013 habits of bf a foreigner ada in 16 a gh deal table with 4 a of anh emmad cotton intended to bachl be walte e a and nd as an uncompromising backed de deaf chair hideous articles make a mart man feel ashamed for though they are only I a 1 burlesque bu lesque 0 of out our civilization they ape ve with an ufa of 6 f bridd which 1 shows that ill the a owner baet la is convinced yonee d that they are the dizh t thing and one cannot but bat be humiliated 11 by cheit ugliness and want of comforts comfor tZi yet rot if you ou want id t 0 read or ar write you baa to keep ize 4 them and make the best of el them for along a long evelln eve evening oa the floor is only to be aler a good many luany weeks week sef of practice 0 things bein to 10 lock brighter I 1 ana plea pleasant pleasanter santer ec when the little waiting va thag mala maid dr an ap eats bringing fiot abil cushions and the hi bachl with its pile of glowing gloving charcoal and then tho the tea tray trav nu ad a f few sweet cakert ca cakss kest this was more ali the e sort of thing I 1 had expected end male ele me at t once fesl at home with my surroundings roun dings it is the tha first diate attention antion ihorn you in every te tes louse house no matter liow humbler humble whether wheller couo as an inmate or whether you ou merely 81 sit it down for a few minu minutes te a rest eri oft a purney journey the little and the tiny cups ara at anee nce proa produced abed and the hibachi is placed hy by your side a pleasnat and friendly fr welcome which neve railed to td make an imp impression res sion gi on in much the quality juat ity of afi tha tea might vary |