GLIMPSES OF JAPAN 
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A WAYSIDE TEA HOUSE 
Tea houses in Japan are most welcome and opportune resting places in the day’s journey. Visitors are usually served 
by young women, who not only fill the place of waitresses but are charming hostesses. At the wayside inn in the 
picture the old couple were most considerate of our comfort. 
NUNS SOLICITING ALMS 
In the right hand of each nun is a little hammer, which is used to strike the small metal gong attached to the belt to 
give notice of their approach, so that a person may be prepared to makea contribution. If the coin is forthcoming 
the nuns deposit it for the time being in the box hanging at their side. 
