| Show 3 4 t d 1 44 4 kao ASSING and re passing fh lh the streets of boklo are vrn PASSING den deri of every description early in ili the morning bonss slumber ie ili disturbed by their plula live erica cries and should the window rt ff the house look upon a thoroughfare there may inay bo be seen through the eudard a countless count leisa lees procession of hawker haw kera i but they do not need to be been seen to be recognized for their characteristic cries 1 echo and reecho re echo from morning until night taka the ot chint for instance the strolling linh medicine vender often he lie la Is a musician with ith a tuneful accordion envious glances may be cast at his red and white epaul ollea hie ills form and his cap many a youth says the japan advertiser might consider it the height of ambition to be able to go about the city in just the same mani mant sir r and wn 11 from all the young women in the streets through which he passes but the has all he can do to make his dally daily bread and his lot Is often very hard indeed the center for the distribution of this medicine Is at the merchants house which aich ie Is situated on the little island off Tsu hiji Tsu kiJima the applicant who ho wishes to become a trav aling apothecary must pay 5 yen as a guarantee to bo be faithful to the mas ter the next day he is given a cap a suit of clothes and a pair of shoe in addition he receives medicine to the value of 7 yen and his breakfast is a supplied every morning por for his perhaps because there are fewer and fewer fashioned old f people now who use thie this kind of pipe in tho the old yedo days tho the trade was mi i brisk brink one and tho the dauya ran through tho street two baskets abtin yng g at the ends of 0 4 polo across III hia shoulders and his cry was a most fa millar one now ho he Is ili minus tho baskets and tho the cry but the cart and the steam whistle have taken their place then too so many people today smoke cigars and cigarettes that the ra aya finds his old bamboo pipes few and far between according to statistics those who use tho the I 1 pipe have decreased one half in tho past ten an years it la ili a sad commentary on ithe the passing of many old style people in boklo there am ar about fifteen merchants who sell the bamboo for or the pipes and the chinese bamboo Is considered the best this business cannot be carried on when it Is ratna rain as th the a repairing must be done out of doors tho the dauya must be examined by the off officers leers in his district twice a year must keep moving if bis his cart passes the examination he may continue his work nork he charges three sen to replace a pipestem and bo he must use about ten en worth orth of the charcoal a day so that the prents accruing are often very small this business Is practically limited to old mel they take off the silver or brass bowl bows and mouthpiece and put in a new now bamboo stem then clean the whole N ap 4 A t fl other meals be he must shift for himself and eat them in whatever part of oti tokla he lie finds himanek aben lies he be becomes hungry all the must assemble nt at thy the masters house in the morning and be ready to start out by 8 for the SOS streets of boklo the sings a song which has for or conclusion the expression or one tine two keeping step to the music ot of an accordion and walking all cing stately and slowly whenever the street gamins bear his song they run after the oichi nl lit just as the tile rats ran after the mad piper of hamelin song an advertisement his ilia song Is an advertisement of his hit medicine cino it Is dilli cult lo 10 learn and often takes several days before the vender can master it if he Is not a success at singing the song he niia be of no account ns as a vender for the secret of his popularity lies ties in his rendering of the peculiar melody when you brar bear tie tle dauya ra ilyn or repairer of bamboo in tho the neighborhood bo it seems as though a ml miniature n loco mothe was letting off oft team for one peculiarity P of the th le ra ayas trade is a cart which nas in it j little furnace a steam vent over which the pipe As placed to clean it thoroughly on the inside and also through the roof root of the tile cart a steam whistle for the privilege priTi lege of pushing his cart the streeta streets the dauya ra aya must pay day three yen a year as tax it takes a long apprenticeship to know all the tricks of thi thit trade and no one who Is not accustomed to this kind of mending can be a su coee the number of P ra A aya Is steadily on the decre se 80 by steam and polish tb metal until it beems as good as new i another personage among the street merchants Is the amazaki ya his ilia cry amal adall sweet sweet 8 beet Is so suggestive of sweet th things i tha the cry brings the children from every quarter the men who ply this trade are generally old they form ono one of moklos picturesque street elements with their two large red lacquered boxes on either end of a shoulder pole mazake Is sold to the die street retailers from thirteen wholesale merchants who ho thus supply the trade an applicant who iho wishes to enter this business goes to the tho merchant with a person who acts as a guarantor and borrowing the louttit which consists of the aforesaid red boxes Is almost ready to set forth on his travels but ho lie must buy his owe ow e clothes which illch consist of coolie neahr r garment and a blue cotton coat with the tile advertisement of his trade la 11 white hite charac characters tem on its lapels and land a chinese character for amazaki on un his back ho must also bo be fitted out with an iron pot for boiling the sweet liquid ills red boxes contain the hi baschi and the heavy pot also charcoal drawers trays and cups it Is very bard hard for an old man to carry two such heavy boxes and the amazaki ya Is often taken with a do de sire to rest reit by the wayside but this Is against the law and if tho the police man catches sight eight of him he la is told to move on in the polite language of kora koral sometimes he Is fineo alno from 20 sen to one yen for thua thus loitering 1 on his way |
