. 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. set forth by the celebrated Japanesemoralist, Kaibarra, writing on The Whole Duty of Woman: The great lifelong duty of a woman is obedience. . Should herhusband be roused at any time to anger, she must obey him with fear andtrembling, and never set herself up against him in anger and forwardness. Awoman should look on her husband as if he were Heaven itself and neverweary of thinking how she may yield to her husband, and thus escape cele
. 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. set forth by the celebrated Japanesemoralist, Kaibarra, writing on The Whole Duty of Woman: The great lifelong duty of a woman is obedience. . Should herhusband be roused at any time to anger, she must obey him with fear andtrembling, and never set herself up against him in anger and forwardness. Awoman should look on her husband as if he were Heaven itself and neverweary of thinking how she may yield to her husband, and thus escape celestialcastigation. Similarly, in the Greater Learning for Women it isdeclared: The five worst maladies that afflict the female mind are indocility, dis-content, slander, jealousy and silliness. These five maladies infest seven oreight out of every ten women, and it is from these that arises the inferiorityof women to men. The wife of the missionary I visited in Osaka told me oneor two amusing incidents — amusing in one aspect and pa-thetic in another — that are of interest in this Japanese member of her church declared: No, no, THE GREAT BUDDHA (DIABUTSU) AT KAMAKURAyThis gigantic figure of Buddha (a mans head would barely reach the statuesfeet) singularly expresses the spirit of serene contemplation for which theBuddhist religion stands; is indeed, hauntingly suggestive of that dreamyNirvana which it teaches is the goal of existence. There is perhaps no finerpiece of statuary in the East than this
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