N.ega 



R. Scidmore 



A MOTHER OF WARRIORS: JAPAN 



Stoicism is more than a tenet with the Japanese; it is almost a religion, and the mother of these 

 babes, if the hand of death were laid upon them, could with calm fortitude relate her loss to a 

 stranger without the display of grief, for it is a cardinal principle of her politeness that she should 

 never burden another with her woes. But beneath this cross-barred cradle of cloth there beats the 

 universal mother heart — universal in its high hopes for her children's future and in its eager joy at 

 personal sacrifice for their happiness. 



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