| Show THE TEMPLE CITIES OF JAPAN many feet liae lia e been treading their way to the shrines la the temple cities of japan in recent months in the temples of tokyo many bits of american pocket money went to a priest for writing a pretty prayer on a slip of 0 paper which the visitor in true pilgrim fashion fas lilon pressed to ills forehead und and to ills his breast and then fastened to the temple wall in order that it might be a perpetual petition there are deities to whom de out lout japanese write so a few americans pleas scarcely clogged the celestial postal service there were many native pilgrims on the way to the shrines during the summer months when lien the crops have been taken rare care of the village folk though they have tile the temples of their own patron deity and the fox god feel that they must send out a pilgrim or two to the alie sacred mountains and ho holy ly places of japan to worship in behalf of those who cannot go and so they provide a fund for ills his expenses nor does the emissary travel in state life for him loses most of its complexities ue ile is equipped with a cheap white cotton shirt that can call be easily washed tight fitting trousers and a loose white cotton jacket which he K r with a girdle ile he wears nil an enormous broad still stiff straw hat and on ills back na ho carries a piece of waiting matting which serves series him as an umbrella by day aud and as a bell bed by night ile he carries his luggage in two bundles one on his back and the other iu in front fron t usually labeled with the name of tile the shrine he Is to visit and somewhere about his person there la 19 hung a little bell which tinkles as lie he stumps along over tile weary road from mountain to mountain in august the pilgrim rolls on off his wat mat and tile hie visitor from foreign lands climbs out of lied bed at tile the crack of dawn to hoar hear the alie lotus flower bloom for the tha buds burst with nith a plea pleasing eleasin sin characteristic sound if nikko is the most beautiful alty in japan kyoto can call be called tile the most I 1 interesting here the feminine visitor finds herself bewildered by the most exquisitely wrought of 0 all the exquisite pottery bronzes fans and ve velvety velvets vel vets lets after she lias has ought bought more th than in she can comfortably get home with she profi probably profitably ably will want to bee a bit of the mi illi palace which covers over oner twenty five acres of ground and Is surrounded by a great wall with six gates or journey out to see the largest lake in japan lake and the 10 1200 year yea ro old pine tree N which stands near dear it |
