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beautiful resting places. The people are polite and kind and it 

 costs very little to stop at one of them. A foreigner going to 

 Japan for the first time should stop at one of these places if he 

 wishes to study the customs of the common people. 



They have beautiful roads in Japan, roads that have been in 

 use hundreds and hundreds of years. 



Here is a Japanese maiden with her usual burden. When a 

 baby is born it is almost immediately put upon the back of the 

 orrandmother. Then if another little tot comes along it is placed 

 upon the back of the first child, and so, in passing through a 

 Japanese village, wherever there are two feet there are two 

 heads. It is rather bewildering. If there is no girl to carry 

 the baby, then it is tied to the boy, and if there is no boy it is 

 strapped upon the back of the grandparent, the first upon the 

 grandmother and the next upon the grandfather. If there are 

 no grandparents, the uncles and aunts are brought into use. 

 This burden does not seem to trouble them at all. The girl 

 here will play as if she had no baby on her back. 



There are so many blind people in Japan that many years 

 ao-o the emperor gave them the exclusive right to shampooing. 

 These blind shampooers made a good living. Their peculiar 

 whistle was one of the most weird and strange sounds that I 

 heard in Japan. I came rather to like the noise of it. The 

 people were very kind to the blind shampooers and they always 

 have the right of way. Somebody will call out to one of them 

 to stop and he will go in and perform the massage movement 

 for anyone who wishes to have his aches and pains taken out of 

 him, and in this way they get a living. 



Japan is the only place in the world where you get anything 

 like the color of the American maples in autumn. This is a 

 sort of ambulance on wheels. The lady is in the middle, the 

 men carry it on poles over their shoulders, and the servants 

 walk along beside it. The Americans find it very difficult to 

 ride in these cages, as they call the kagos. It is a good deal 

 like the Turkish way of sitting on the lower limbs. 



As you approach the beautiful city of Nikko you see a great 

 many beautiful trees that are something like the Redwood trees 



