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Show Silent Japanese Women. Japan has Its communities of silent femalo rec lubes. There Is a convent nt a plnco called Yunakawa, about seven miles from Hakodnto A matron of some fifty eani presides, and her Instructions aro Implicitly obeyed. Tho women aro all young, ranging from sixteen to twenty-sovon, and some of them aro described as very beautiful. Tho building stands in a farm of some 260 acres, but tho women do not engngo In any agricultural worl;. They spend most of tholr tlmo Indoors, and thev olipervo a strict rule of silence. |