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Show Working Backward. A Japaneae house la built differently different-ly from an Knglli-h one. The roof, which with ua Is the last Important part of the outward structure to be completed. Is with the Japanese the first thing to be finished. All the toola used by tho carpenters and Jolnra have a reverted action The Japanese carpenter doeg not push a plane away from him, but pulls It toward him. The glrrileig are threaded In the opposite op-posite way to ours; thr saw are mad to aa to cut on thn rpw ard pull and not on the downward thrimt; screws have their threads reversed, and keyholes are always made upside down and the keys turned backward In the bonne If the clock Is an old one It will have atatlcnary hands, with the face revolving revolv-ing backward and the houra marked 8. 7, 6. S, 4. 1 and so on. reckoning fiom ooon. |