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Show THE WOMEN OF JAPAN. Trained for Centuries In Implicit Obedience Obe-dience to Man. Wholly InterostlngjH It to note tho groat contrast botween tho women of Russia nnd those of Japan, llcflnod femininity, simplicity, obedience, mated mat-ed to a naive personal charm, are somo of tho characteristics going to tho making of the merry, laughing (laughters of Japan, who for centuries and centuries havo been educated, nay, reared In a totally different school from Its mon tho school of Implicit obedience, commencing with father, and then husband, only to finish with tho sons. The Japauoso woman who values homo Ilfo and matrimonial happiness hap-piness has to be exceedingly tactful nnd oven of temperament, seeing that In that conntry a marriage Is subject to dissolution by such moro Kngllsh trifles ns disobedience, jealousy, and "tnlklng too much." Tho mother-in-law, whom tho Kngllsh girl talks moro of than really suffers from, is In stern reality a dally fret to tho Japanese girl, with whom she Invariably makes her homo. Does It not, of a surety, fay something to women, who, loudly protesting against tho slightest restriction, re-striction, that with nil tho limitations which begird her sex, tho Japaneso woman ntlll retains n gracious sweetness sweet-ness nnd a cheerful serenity wo would bo wise to Imitate Montreal Hornld. |