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Show Work of Japanese Girls. For Japan's coronation coromony of taishosal next November 27 protty young women havo boon assisting in transplanting tho young emerald rlco plants In tho sacred flolds of tho Mlkawa province Half way to tholr knocs In water, thoy tolled dally, llko their less privileged sisters, at tho work. Bending down, thoy laid tho tiny shoots in placo, and rising, sang sacred Shinto songs, for tho rlco grains of tho raro festival must bo porfect in shapa and color truo seed pearls of tho Way of tho Gods. Tho girls nro from sixteen to twenty-ono twenty-ono years old. Of theso things tho papers took nolo. Tho photographers snapped thom In their coming nnd doing do-ing and going. Not only from tho neighborhood but from nfar havo corao Insistent marriage proposals, and all but ono nro said to bo engaged en-gaged and aro to ho married tho day of the coronation. |