Show LEARNING FROM JAPAN inee the beginning of Its war ar with Russia Russ lt Japan hu bee had its dis overy by western nations Before the thet t outbreak 0 of with iU Tko 1 8 Bear That Like a 8 Man to the avera average e m man n meant a nation of child men and women who ho had bad amusing amusin standards of life Ufe and an impo sible mode of ef I living ving The Japanese were re regarded its 88 a people just emerged from and nd with eyes still blinking from the of western civilization let too suddenly In upon them But in ina a year and Ii a half the entire world has that the he are not hildren their code of ethics though h vastly from the religions that find fin the life of the ret rest of t the orld orid still are a real vital force in int t their daily life Inspiring to the noblest 1 leeds s the race has shown the Ita t hoe tre faculty of Ute the Chinese and the in uthe ability of the Yankee Eu European n American ideas have been adopted and Improved the Shinto wor hi has 5 snot met the th dawn in I his own held of invention and certainly ha has not yet been vanquished In the til ince n of warfare b by land laM and sea the little Jap has himself a master of every detail The sanitary ar arrangements of the Japanese camps and I the skill and or of the mod med iral and surgical corps In tM the have ou on the reluctant admi admiration tion of the whole world But In all this the American and Eu European European was proudly able to see his nUs own influence Certainly he be ar argued this until recently sava savage e race ouid have uve or originated of this tort ort without the OM west est for a model It ItI I seems t emt however that Japan entirely eves even before Defore the Perry awakening as witness tM the from the G Geographic Ma Magazine ine for forfay May fay uIt It comes 01 eS as a shock to our na an national pride that the Japanese Jap have taken up o oyster Ster culture a century before our nation was born and have haver r the most eS essential factor In cultivation n namely mely individual usi ual ownership or 01 control of the oyster bottOMS when we remember that in the most important oyster region In the world within a 8 short dJ distance taAce t tiC the capital of the United States State the vital prInciples of o oyster ster culture are ignored anti and e orts to apply them are resisted sometimes by force of arms arias It appears that the Japanese not DOt only cultivate with great the common oyster oter bUt they cultivate also the pearl oyster They stimulate the pearl earl secre secretion tion with ith the result tt that every year they have oysters oysten under treatment and annually some e SO pearls li Among us the ra rai mis i of terrapin Is an unsolved problem so ea t that we are facing the extinction of r the diamond back a ad of other lees leHi valued varieties But the Japs JaPI for fOt J years have va been placing r grown terrapin on the market Near 8 a single farm markets yearly a 8 crop of from rom to terrapin |