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Show MORALS OF JAPAN AS SEEN BY OGDENITES "Ren" Hadley and Dr. H B. Forbes of Ogden have been touring Japan in their trip around the world vritir,: from Tokio. Mr Hadley sends tb Standard his impressions of Japan and the Japanese. His letters will be found to be thor oughly Interesting as offerln.tr side lights on Japanese life, which are not presented in the books on Japan Our Ogden travelers have met with a few surprises. F.jr instance. M j Hadley has discovered that in parts of Japan there is mixed bathing He does not sa that on hearing of t h i j disregard of the conventionalities B he lias known ibrm. he hastened to the scene or started on any very close Investigation, yet he assures us thai In the smaller cities and towns men and women bathe together and regard the practice as quite proper Maids at the hotels intrude on the . bathers and the intrusion Is not con- 1 sidered an immodest act. Here v, e have the Japanese and the American idea of sex relation con trasted The Japanese disregard of our moral code is shocking to Americans Ameri-cans traveling in Japan and yet the j Japanese girls neither offend in 'he e;. es of their own people nor do their conscience injury, because Japan. moral ethics are not on the same high plane as our own. |