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Show In Queer Tapani Tim tfhpanqno have no penn and nn lnk( but they make a very good ohlft -with rt paintbrush Tho Japanese do noi knovr how to kiss, If a Japanese girt lenrna how to klsn, It shown tho work of a forclcm Instructor. Sho does it ns an ncoompllshinont, not as an onjoymbnt, Tho Jayanoso woman does not blackon her tcoth under any mlntakon Idea that It makas her attractive. Bho docH It to make hcrnolf unattraotlvc. I lor hiiHband Is auppoacd to know her value. Glvo a JapancHo u buck yard ton foot square and he will havo a Chlncno gunlcn, with any number of patho of ffllttcrlng white quartz. But give a prouperous Jap-nncso Jap-nncso a few acrcuone aero round his houuo in the Buburba, and he will mako an attractive landscape garden. A Japaneso house la generally all on the lloor. Tho number ot rooraB In "i depends de-pends on the number of bedrooms tho owner requires. They aro divided for tho night by paper sdiuttcra, fixed In grooves, like the divisions of an old-fashioned workbox There are no doors or passages. If a Japanese husband divorces his wlfo he iiakes no provision for her and she has no doK7rv from her family; but divorced women In Japan nearly always marry again. Sho brings him nothing but a gentle and obedient slave, and taken nothing noth-ing away with her but the samo valuable commodity. Most of the people you meet on the Japanese Jap-anese Now Year day are cnrrvlng a squashed salmon, with a piece of paper tied round Its waist by a paper otrlng which holds a little gold paper klto. That kite means that tho thing Is a present and haa not to b paid for. Those who are not carrying crushed salmon or taking tak-ing up tho street In giving correct New Year salutations aro playing battledore and shuttlecock. |