Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-01-25 | Page 9 | Smiles over Baby's Death

that the htidkerchief the womli carried car-ried had b. tors into tinr bita daring tha oarertioB, and that aa he left her lower lip waa bleeding. Mr Japanese fnend. aoia.ll and dain'tr, and in all appearance almost childlike, waa at one time very ill. and suffered the moat intense physical pain that it is possible to suffer. Her mother was not Hrinsr. her husband was away at the time, and she had been quite alone. "I shoulrl hare screamed with the agony," I cried involuntarily, when I heard of : the terrible suffering. ! "It is a shame for a Japanese wo man to cry out in pain," he answered simply. . eamxs ovxs baby's death. Japanese life has suffered a transition transi-tion during the last decade, but it needs more than a change in outward out-ward forma to change the spirit of tha nation. A touching incident show-lag show-lag the old spirit is contained in aa article by Marion Bonaail in the Housekeeper. The daughters of Japan hare not lost, nor. can thev lose, their old samurai spirit, which is the spirit of Japan; and with the atoieism and courage, and the patriotism which is that spirit, they are cultivating as much of the occidentalism as seems to them good. 8ome of the demands of Japanese etiquette seems from our standpoint to be very crueL It is Considered err vulgar to show one's grief; according ac-cording to the sternly grand idea of Japanese courtesy one owes to one 's fallowa to show him only a happy, smiling face. If tha heart is break-ing break-ing let bo man see. A Japanese woman whose little son, an only child, had " reeently died, eaDed on an errand at the home of aa American family living in Tokyo. The American woman asked .for the health of the boy, and the Mother answered with a smile that he had died several days before. be-fore. A number of questions followed fol-lowed concerning his sickness and the time of his death, to all of which the mother answered cheerfully cheer-fully and smilingly. After a few apparently ap-parently happy remarks on different subjects she departed to her home. The American woman was very angry and horrified at what she : deemed the woman's callousneea and j lack of maternal feeling. The husband hus-band knew more of Japanese charac- i ter, and had made two observations