July, 1 9 10 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Japanese gateway and lantern 



Yama-no-uchi and Its Trout 



By Carlyle Ellis 



[P ONE of the steep, seamed gullies of the 

 Catskill foothills one climbs from the vil- 

 lage of Napanoch. The range, like the 

 Adirondacks to the north, is filled with 

 just such wooded gorges. A mountain 

 stream divides it and a mountain road 

 laboriously climbs one side to the farmed 

 tablelands above. We are in a region of the familiar. 



The road takes us past simple cottages with their tiny 

 squares of corn and potatoes and their borders of sun- 

 flowers and dahlias. Then it plunges into the unbroken 

 woods. A turn and we are at the gate. 



It is not like any gate we have ever seen. It gives more 

 than a hint of foreign lands, which the lantern at once pro- 

 claims Japan. Yet we accept it at once. Our surprise is at 

 its fitness and its beauty, not at its strangeness. We can 



The bridge and the mill 



