. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. THE GIANT AVENUE OF CBYPTOMEBIAS AT NIKKOThis magnificent avenue, twenty-five miles in length, consists of trees plantedby daimyos, or small lords, as a memorial to the great Japanese warrior andstatesman, lyeyasu. A spirit of simplicity and love of nature has produceda, nobler monument than extravagance could possibly have done. TYPICAL JAPANESE COSTUMES AND TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE In the temple picture notice also how the limbs of the tree
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. THE GIANT AVENUE OF CBYPTOMEBIAS AT NIKKOThis magnificent avenue, twenty-five miles in length, consists of trees plantedby daimyos, or small lords, as a memorial to the great Japanese warrior andstatesman, lyeyasu. A spirit of simplicity and love of nature has produceda, nobler monument than extravagance could possibly have done. TYPICAL JAPANESE COSTUMES AND TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE In the temple picture notice also how the limbs of the trees have been trainedMany fantastic effects are often produced in this way SNAPSHOTS OF JAPANESE LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY 15 by this time, and I do not recall one in the attitude of scoldingor abuse, while authorities tell me that the Japanese languagesimply has no words to enable one to swear or curse. I wasalso interested to have the American Ambassador here tell methat in all his three years stay in Japan, and with all thefreedom with which a million children run about the streetsand stores, he has never seen a man impatient with a the Imperial University yesterday morning I noticed twocollege boys part with the same deep courtesy used by theolder men, and the little five-year-old girl near Chuzenji theother day thanked me for my gift with the most graceful ofEastern salaams. I shall not say that the excessive ceremoniousness of the mendoes not at times seem ludicrous, but
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