Show love amon A bonci the japanese the boys and girls tto the oung iren tren i and young women of japan do lovo love each other I 1 sup pece but one rever sees tho the slightest shadow of evidence to prove it the spirit of love loie doe not dominate dorcil nato the national lifo life as it does in america and the countries of europe japans poets do not ing of ot love her story writers tell no of love that can thrill an anglo sa on an heart and her artists raint ro pictures of love that can reach tho the anglo saxon understanding now nou consider ing all this how c cm cin in there be such a thing as a good old summer time in this land of the sunrise and bet et there is and it Is especially delight ful in ita its aay ay too because the japanese are a nation of feasters fc asters and rick pick of nature lovers and world and if one can omy onty lose sight of the fact that everywhere one goes the poor little momen toddle meekly along behind the men who stalk pompously ahead as it they owned the earth ore may almost enjoy ones self one navar never ees a boman caressed tn in japan not oven with ith a glance one seldom sees a baby fondled fo died idled in fact a I 1 human tenderness or expression of 01 human tenderness is conspicuous by its absence and I 1 believe that is the ono one impassable greit great gulf that is fixed between us and this people which Is endeavoring so earnestly to become one of us and yet the people are tapp happy wita a mirrle le hap hall that Is charming charr alae that is it it Is an atmosphere that mildly charms but never ahr ils the western heart all the nations lovo love Is concentrated cent rated upon the emperor and the highest note of the nit national ional life Is sounded in amato japan spirit patriotism and even this ie Is blond our comprehension because it is 1 empty of ro and tory to us who canerot se separate ae interests of fair women omen and brave men even upon the battlefield clean franklins japan letter in les lies iles weekly |