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Show Japan's Emprsis Popular. It is doubtful If any royal consort Is more loved by her people than Is thu empress of Japan. Educated accord Ing to feudal Ideas and skilled In all tho accomplishments befitting ono f her social eminence, her majesty strongly favor tho broadness of tho now education for women and from her private purse gives largo sums toward the maintenance of women'a schools and universities. During th war with Hiissla tho empress vlsltwl tho hospitals many times and every day passed hours making bandages, Tho effect of theso bandages iion the wounded soldiers has been of deep interest in-terest to medical and scientific men, for the soldiers honored by them seemed to rally under a peculiar men' tnl Influence. All other bandages were destroyed nfter their first use; those mnde by the empress wero sterlllied and used again for tint simple reason of their effect on tho recovery of the soldiers. |