Show M THE ORIENTAL EYE OPENS tho the japanese adopting tho the dross dress M manners andors music bangs tooth among the late arrivals it at san S in fancisco F ran cisco from japan were IV C do de lano eastlake Eastla kc anil and his mother who are arc now flow at the occidental in ili an interview ow with a chronicle Chron cle reporter par er mr eastlake Eastla kc portrayed in pleasing pill sing colors the country and its people pe olle the I 1 he people are fast advancing in the civilization of their political moral and intellectual lives in the customs of dress there lins has been 11 marked change during the last decade until now nov the officials and tile letter better classes assume the english costume among the former it is is compulsory and upon the street the old japanese garb is seldom seen except r on oil the poorer classes among the ladies however the loose gowns of the olden days ire arc still popular but even these are Cral luilly becoming obsolete and it fit the fashionable balls the european dress is generally assumed while the pro grammes of the japanese orchestras generally include the alie best of english 11 music music the odd add yet picturesque style of a f hair dressing n which has so long prevailed in the country lias has been superseded by that of the american women the fair foreheads of alie th royal eroyal ladies are arc already bidden by the bang so common in in our own country cou 1 the fashions however ho weyer agrenot set by the emprey the style adopted by alie tit e ministers 1 wives is considered quite the proper t thing ili 11 g and following their example all I 1 ladies adin of culture have stopped blac blacking king their teeth and shaving 0 their eyebrows cye broTS tile intellectual pro progress r ress of the people of japin has teen almost ill most unparalleled not only his has the educational system been established all over the empire but the capital city boasts of a university that em can compare favorably with the best colleges of the continent german professors prominent for scientific works and research have filled the chairs in ill the scientific and medical departments of the imperial university ver sity while in literature both ancient and modern english 0 and americans of advance thought tl ought have been chosen dinst instructors L als ilc the staff of foreign professors has been diminished and the vacancies filled by japanese literati who have returned from study abroad abiO iid the works of huxley hurley spencer darwin Dir win and others have been translated into japanese and are familiar fain aar liand handbooks books to students in japan japa itile the pr ornul atom of christianity find that they have a proud skepticism to ez contend intend with the japanese talk of the evolution of S species decies 11 and the nebular hypo typo tr I 1 esis is as glibly as our learned men buddhism is still the predominating faith but ii rapidly rip idly itself anion among the more intellectual cla clauses ses although man many of the high officials express extreme bitterness to the doctone and its in tro tin this s bitterness is is so great that to profess christianity menus means tile the joss oss of 0 au an official po position st i the th people are arc not lot conserva j alve 11 1 ll ak 4 r and T it 16 ri only a 1 ili nutter atter of 1 curnc I 1 me when the christian Christ iiii falth will be throughout the country in ili ill all the large cities public schools are maintains main taini arul and 11 iiii is compulsory that sitter after attaining ili a certain 1 ay I children shall be a to school in ili tokio there ar are e tn large li igi law school one olle of oe which is in the french lr inch binl alil tile the other in tile 1 Kiln 1 I deih li linan ige JUM adla 1 1 to ID these wt ii e ui W volle rylie o nath dvor ciol tolina Tol inu a 1 I ii it iti alt i himle hc IM 1 I e fi 11 fitly ni aped 0 with the Co ciliege liege 11 fairs lie rut L tit in tie niini 1 af if aioo ail kald tile rhita fl artt of of the country now ii i i the nepi titio ieiri far ir the national A promised for 1890 the ground enata ii i ali euly purchased it r anti the ar ly buildings ld aln ie ia i natii rally sonn on oil the pirt part ining mav not carev out its groit 1 ses es to tile the veople people an it now stands stand ilia hie Gove government piment is in ii tile the liandi hands of the E nip rov a iced by tile santte wid cloase of if ands winch in ill tilt is it culled called gen io iu iii the national A assembly will be iu composed ed of representatives senta tives ly by the people froni from tile the various di t rit t q i into ii to which the country ii divided IUli I 1 Dg the ein embira pire a i isai I 1 ial I 1 le public laws regarding critico in mil and public aie very stringent and in neither i is criticism of the government i allowed aleluia ed Ite regarding garding japans relations with aninisa I 1 nin am able to speak at length sty isit to this countr country y is in the interest of nn ail extension of 0 ilia mercantile traffic Pic the united stites states and its iti people are regarded willi great respect liy by the Jap japanese aucie and in their eyes eves IM ili the fiji chimpo one of the journals jour unla expresses it act stands out in the world yu id like 1 a I bit blos coming plain brinch branch abom it a thicket of bi brambles ambles diffusing I 1 si a rich frap ance and compelling flit aliu admiral ad mirat ration j an of all for her 0 great name and vigorous C policy Thera alie ravages vames of bolera lit in corea corca 0 are arc ivi avidly adly pre presented dented by yesterdays news f eliat t alie 1 1 deaths l c a t it s from this cause I 1 te Ss IT tt ita in seoul 0 u alone I 1 0 arc i r c a I 1 thousand eliou onil a thiv this chief lity bif if ilia penio peninsula sula contains less than a 1 I quirt cr of a million inhabitants its walls walla and as the abc pestilence began 0 to rage furiously there fully or four Inu mouths utts 11 ago 0 it ina may be what hamzo louvou it il lias has inalle all ill point to lu note is if that ali il the lie an sanitary I 1 conditi eon dilion oil of tile capital lias has been for a long oil lime horrible 1 I tilt pile of excellent natural braini drainage ge the sewers were lvere once YM pod mil open on oil tile streets but of lnla tl alie houses hate encroached lied on oil the alie and havo heen r recklessly I 1 ek built up III to 1 ditl I c el en I 1 a 01 c er if alic ie sewers leaving leavina only the space necessary for these ilits hiell have be become corric milder awl and filthier alic lesson of tills this tic devastation aaion of seoul i is S tl alie I 1 e one that bould lir be 1 in it any adv other cila of the world under 1 till and horrible ond and pitiable as I 1 the mortality it that tile I 1 bead now lie ion long unburied it cannot be called surprising |