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larger cities, are palatial in contrast to the shattered and filthy condition 



of a like class of tenements in many of the cities of Christian countries. 



In traveling through the country the absence of a middle class, as 



indicated by the dwellings, is painfully apparent. It is true that you 



Fig. 9.— Street in Kanda Ku, Tokio. 



pass, now and then, large comfortable houses with their broad thatched 

 roofs, showing evidences of wealth and abundance in the numerous 

 hura and out-buildings surrounding them ; but, where you find one of 

 these, you pass hundreds which are barely more than shelters for their 



Fig. 10.— Street View of Dwelling in Tokio. 



inmates, and, within the few necessary articles render the evidences 

 of poverty all the more apparent. 



Though the people that inhabit such shelters are very poor, they 

 appear contented and cheerful notwithstanding their poverty. Other 



