Show wash away their lies among the many curious customs that offer such an endless source of in terest ter eating irig study to the westerner trav alln in japan perhaps there la is none that arouses hie his inderst so much an that which obtains through jut the flowery kingdom among the rich and poor alike of washing away their ahll drens iles by a species of shower bath that la is a cleanser of the physical as well as of the moral being ablutions play a large part in every to 0 o rn of japanese worship defore the shrine which ie in te to bo be found in every home there ie is a eort sort of crude bath tub lade made in the eton steam floor the water for theeo these la is supplied froni from pipes mch a k heavy stream down from rom the roof seated before the altar in the middle of the in anh the prevaricating culprit Is mado made to euffer duffer tho the penalty of his man lies the volume of water comes dashing down upon his defenseless fen seless head with a force that would make a robust Ani andrican rican lad eee see stars but the japanese liar known that there la is no other way to appease the wrath of the injured god of truth so be he succumbs to the inevitable with a much better grace than that with which his western brother takes big his whipping and elte site before jie be shrine of hie his family divinity reading aloud for the benefit of a number of bystanders byet andera the long ping list of lies iles that baa has brought him to thie this uncomfortable paa pass pittsburg Pitta burg pre is |