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Show COUNTRY FOR LIGHT 8LEEPER8. Japan Has No Domestic Animals to Disturb the Slumberer. Tho Japanese college, girl had been unablo to sleep because a dog had howled all night beneath her window. "Now, In Japan," she said, "such a trouble would never happen. We have no animal pets there; we don't even have useful domestic animals, such as cows, sheep and pigs. If the Japanese kept for his pleasure a dog and cat, and then suffered these animals to spend the night out ot doors, spoiling the neighbors.' rest with their uproar-well, uproar-well, I don't know what punishment we'd give him, but 'it would be somewhat some-what lingering, I fancy, with boiling oil on it. We have no domestic animals. ani-mals. To dogs and cats we prefer children. Sheep we don't require, for wo cat no mutton, and our clothes nro made ot silk nnd of cotton Instead of wool. Mules and donkoys we don't need, because men do our hauling. Pigs, with their. 111th, aro unknown to us you couldn't persuade a Japanese to eat pork. Wo do keep chickens, it Is true, but they aro always kept far away from any dwelling house. On this account .Japan has :.lgbts ot 'Perfect 'Per-fect quietude. It Is the best place on earth for sleeping." |