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Show Miss liable Daniels Writes from Japan Miss Mable Daniels, well known i here through her associations with j the Presbyterian church work and jwho took an active part in all community com-munity work, has reached her de.stin- ation at Nagoya, Japan, where she is an instructor in Golden Castle college. col-lege. She writes an interesting let-j let-j ter, under date of October 10, in which ' she describes incidents of her trip and the conditions she found when arriving arriv-ing at Nagoya. The letter follows: "My dear Mr. Cherry:- I landed in Kobe on October 2nd and was met by Presbyterian missionaries who helped me through the customs and hospitably entertained me over night before seeing me on the train for Nagoya. It was a four hour run to Nagoya. I am told that Japanese trains are always on time. Mine certainly was and the delegation that I met me at the station was most cor-I cor-I dial. I arrived here a week ago today and new impressions have crowded in on me so fast that my mind feels like a junk heap. America seems thousands thous-ands of miles away, and no mistake, in spite of a very comfortable and, home-like place in which to live, plenty of good food and very pleasant and congenial fellow-workers. An advertising parade, half block long, displaying Wrigley's products, gave me a twang of home-sickness yesterday. The gay red, yellow and purple streamers, with the familiar Brownies, marching down the street to the tune of fifes and other shrill Japanese horns attracted the attention atten-tion of crowds of people. When I registered at the American Consulate this week, I learned that when it was noon in Gunnison, it is 5 P. M." of the next day in Japan. Here in the land of the Rising Sun we are seventeen hours ahead of you. Nagoya is one of the large cities cit-ies of the Empire, 800,000 population, popula-tion, with electric lights, telephones, a good water supply, a fine street ; service, etc. One of the finest mov-I mov-I ies I ever saw was Ben Hur, last jweek in Nagoya. j Th's is a girl's school of 600 stu- dents, reminding me somewhat of Westminster College with its High School and College Departments. The Principal is a Japanese man whom I have not met yet as he has been at-tend'ng at-tend'ng a conference in Tokio. He has been Principal for ten years and is very highly spoken of.'' |