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Show Japanese a Loving Race l'uhllc deiiio-iMratloii of affection Is most n piuiimit to Iho good taste ct tbo Japuiii - and it Is tho nhecnes ot Ihl wbtili is so generally mistake for n Inrk id genulno feeling, I recall one nM '. o was so devoted to his mother ttbougli I doubt whothtr he could ever have been said to have "talked nboul" her), that when sto died, while bo was abroad, his depression depres-sion was so piofound that my huibaml watched him with ouxlcty Ict-ha I thould commit suicide. Tbo stoical training may tender moro unsymps-tbtttlo unsymps-tbtttlo a guar iiaturit bu reprw-enn lo tho refined soul brings nn ciqulilto capacity fur ln scarcely conceivable by those who are free to glvo utter ancu to every emotion Anothir mun said to tne, "1 rarely sreak of my mother, for n foreigner does not undenitund that a Japnnera mother may lie Jut as dear to her son as hla to blm nnd by Iho Jnpaneso It la not oxpectiHl that ono should ut'er one's decposl feeling." That same son fainted with grief when his inotrcr died, nnd when eousclousnese returned rosu to make light of n "llttlo dlirl nees," without rufercnen to Its causa To this day, whenever ho pies home, ho carries with him hla mother's letters, let-ters, mounted on n beautiful roll ot Ivory nnd brocade, nnd on tbo anniversary anni-versary ot her passing beyond his mortal ken quietly devotes n portion ot tho dny tu meditation and special thought of her. liven lo bin wife, do-splto do-splto tho closest bond of love, ho ny5 not, 'This Is tho day ot my mother's I Jaith." Iho Outlook. |