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Show The Japanese Footfall. One of the odd things which strikes one In Japan is the footfall, so different differ-ent from the sound made by shoe leather, filling the ears In say a crowded station in Tokyo with its European looking 1 rains, platforms, ticket offices, bookstalls and other familiar objects! The musical clicking noise of the wooden sandals or clogs, which are worn out of doors by all classes of Japanese and which are raised above the ground at varylu heights, according accord-ing to the state of the roads. Is one of the most characteristic bits of detail of the country, and any picture afterward after-ward recalled to the mind has this clinkety clink, clinkety clink, as a running accompaniment. |