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Show I JAPANESE AVERSE TO CHANGE Idea That They Would Tak Kindly to Amerlean-Bullt Houms Proved to Do Wrong. With the double hope of business success and social service, n certain llrm In Jnpnn some years ago began the Importation of Amerlcnn-mnde moable houses on larg scale. The houses, the firm believed, would offer very comfortable and cozy little homes at reasonable prices to tho salary-earn- i lug classes of Nippon and would bring about n great Improvement In the domestic do-mestic llfo of the Jnpnnesc. The enterprise, well-meaning ns It undoubtedly was, turned out to be a failure. It was Mle an ovcraenlous hut enlightened missionary trying to Impose the dogmas of Christianity on heathens, regardless of the letter's I Ideas, temperament and history. The I Japanese have tholr own customs, I modes of living and traditions,- which, I Irrespective of whether they be good I or bud, are dear to their hearts and I hard to give up In a fortnight Homes I nre the most basic of Institutions, I mid house construction Is tho result I of centuries of home life to nation. I To try to Induce the Japanese to give I up their houses Immediately and dwell I In the Amcrlcan-mnde houses Is like I trying to urge them to glvo up all I Japanese ways of feeling, believing I and thinking, and to adopt occidental I wajs of behavior. It la preposter- I ous. Hast and West News. I |