Blue waters and green and the Far East today . nts. It holds atrade that is all the best, makes money, and you canstay there for half you are cheated out of at thosecircus-wagon hotels farther uptown. We did not go to Tokio to stay. It is the mostexasperating town imaginable to get about in. Talkof the magnificent distances of Washington—Tokiohas it beaten four ways. Fancy two million peoplespread out in houses of not to exceed two stories high,and you will get an idea of the superficial area of thiscapital. I dont know how many hundred squaremiles it covers, but I know it takes from one to tw
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . nts. It holds atrade that is all the best, makes money, and you canstay there for half you are cheated out of at thosecircus-wagon hotels farther uptown. We did not go to Tokio to stay. It is the mostexasperating town imaginable to get about in. Talkof the magnificent distances of Washington—Tokiohas it beaten four ways. Fancy two million peoplespread out in houses of not to exceed two stories high,and you will get an idea of the superficial area of thiscapital. I dont know how many hundred squaremiles it covers, but I know it takes from one to twohours in a rickshaw to get anywhere. No matterwhere you stop, the points of interest are so scatteredthat you are half your time riding. The streets are much like those of Kioto, but moreforeign, more foreigners on the street, for it is so nearYokohama that every one who stops even for a daythere goes to Tokio, and you are constantly meetingforeigners. It has none of the charm of Kioto,except in spots that are far apart. [266] I<GP»WB^. JAPAN. F. had heard of culture pearls, so we had to gothere first. I believe the pearl oyster secretes thepearl to cover some irritating substance that hasfound its way into the shell and wounds and annoysits muscular tissue. So an ingenious Jap has learnedto produce them artificially. He takes his oyster,makes a little incision in the muscular tissue and in-serts a tiny piece of glass. The oyster proceeds tocover it, and produces a real pearl. It is not an im-itation ; it is a real pearl, but only half a pearl. Cu-riously enough, so far, though he has been at it fortwenty years, he has never been able to produce atrue round pearl. They are flat on one side, but theround side has all the lustre and sheen of the naturalpearl. They do admirably for rings, shirt-stud set-tings and the like, and sell for about a fifth of the priceof the same size produced naturally. The Govern-ment, which fosters everything here, pays him a yearlysubsidy and
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