Japan and the Japanese illustrated . okohama. They will soon be asking us to work their mines,to establish their telegraphic communication, and to make then- railroads. Afterwardsthe time will come when their windows will ha made of glaa^ instead of slides oftransparent paper ; when they must have curtains to their windows and mirrors intheir drawing rooms ; when they will burn gas instead of smoky candles; and whenParisian millinery will have its establishments at Niphon ; for the Japanese men are 3C8 LIFE IN JAPAN. already adopting European attire, and we cannot suppose that the women will n
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . okohama. They will soon be asking us to work their mines,to establish their telegraphic communication, and to make then- railroads. Afterwardsthe time will come when their windows will ha made of glaa^ instead of slides oftransparent paper ; when they must have curtains to their windows and mirrors intheir drawing rooms ; when they will burn gas instead of smoky candles; and whenParisian millinery will have its establishments at Niphon ; for the Japanese men are 3C8 LIFE IN JAPAN. already adopting European attire, and we cannot suppose that the women will notfollow the fashion. In the meantime, imports of the second class are limited to the following articles,and in small numbers: lead, tin, tin and zinc in sheets, wire and pewter, watches,articles de Paris, counterpanes, leather, hides, ivory, rhinoceros horns, and sugar. Besides these, there is a special import trade in supplies for the strangerscjuarter: window-glass, furniture, pottery, glass, clothes, wine, spirits, and preserved. SLEEPING MOnSNEES. meats. Far from having exaggerated the commercial importance of Japan, I mayadd, that from this point of view Japan will not for a long time yet giveUrt as much as we might expect. The country is only emerging from a stateot thiiiL^r-; under whirh it had no consumers outside its own population. Thenorthern portions of the Archipelago are generally untilled, and even in the southof Niphon there are thousands of uncleared acres, covered with bush and scrub,or turned into parks and unproductive gardens, the mortmain properties of feudallords and monastic confraternities. Nevertheless, though all this should be utilized, VOMMEliCIA L COMPETiriON. wm l)lanteil with mulberry and caniplior, with tea- and cotton-trees, the smalhioss of itsterritory must always prevent Japan from competing in commercial value with eount)i<sof such colossal dimensions as China and Hindostan. We must also bear in mind tliat, in our day, neither the explo
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