The Days of a Man 



Kobe 



speaks 



English 



Osaka 



Waka- 



yama 



edge of Japan has led him to accept a position as 

 expert in commercial relations between that country 

 and ours. 



Kobe, proud of its foreign connections, affected a 

 knowledge of English. On the street I noticed the 

 following signs: 



WE ARE THE LAUNDRY OPPOSITE 

 DYED FOR MOURNING IN ONE CLEAR DAY 



BEEF'S WHOLESALE DEALER 

 MACHINERY AND MATERIAL FOR PHOTOGRAPHY 



The city of Osaka, the great national center of 

 manufacture, did not go out of its way in the matter 

 of English. At that time, at least, it showed no visi- 

 ble signs of any sort of foreign influence. In the 

 ample markets we found much of interest, but neither 

 fishes, castle, factories, nor canals need now detain us. 

 So, leaving the huge town to swelter in the sun, I 

 shall take my readers southward along the shores of 

 a very blue bay alive with little sails, next up a 

 sharp promontory of hornblende and asbestos schists 

 - coming at last to Wakayama, a large, clean, 

 sleepy city on a broad plain surrounded on three sides 

 by high mountains, and opening out southwestward 

 toward the sea. In the midst, on a bold spur of up- 

 turned hornblende, stands Wakayama's intricate 

 castle, the most perfect of its type extant, half hidden 

 in trees and surrounded by a moat filled with lotus 

 and frogs. 



Jogging over the road by jinrikisha to our next 

 station, Wakanoura, " inlet of romantic song/' we 



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