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Show Japanese Women Hermits. Japan has Its communities of silent female fe-male recluses. There Is a convent at a placo called Yunakawa. about seven miles from Hakodate. A matron of 50 presides, and hor instructions aro implicitly obeyed. Tho women arc all young, ranging from 1C to 25. and some of them arc described as beautiful. The building stands in a farm of somo 73$ acres, but tho women do not engage in any agricultural work. They upend most of their time Indoors, nnd they observe a strict rule of silence. |