Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . mall family would requireduring the winter. Labor, the General thinks, is too good athing to be misapplied, and when the result of the labor is aplum-tree that you could put on your dinner-table, he is apt toregard it as misapplied. Here are a dozen men in blue cottondress working at a lawn.
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . mall family would requireduring the winter. Labor, the General thinks, is too good athing to be misapplied, and when the result of the labor is aplum-tree that you could put on your dinner-table, he is apt toregard it as misapplied. Here are a dozen men in blue cottondress working at a lawn. I suppose in a week they would doas much as a handy Yankee boy could achieve in a morningwith a lawn-mower. Your Japanese workman sits down overhis meadow, or his flower-bed, or his bit of road, as though itwere a web of silk that he was embroidering. Other men inblue are fishing. The waters of the lake come in with thetide, and the fish that come do not return, and much of ourfood is found here. 538 JAPAN. The sprinkling of the lawns and of the roads is always aserious task, and employs quite an army of servants for thebest part of the afternoon. One of the necessities of palacelife is that you have ten times as many servants about you asyou want, and work must be found to keep them busy. The 7tW. A JAPANESE VILLAGE. summer-houses by the lake in the grounds at Enriokwan areworthy of study. Japan has taught the world the beautyof clean, fine-grained natural wood, and the fallacy of glass andpaint. I am writing these lines in one of these houses—thefirst you meet as you come to the lake. Nothing could bemore simple and at the same time more tasteful. It is oneroom, with grooves for a partition should you wish to make it DISTING L -/SUED VISJTORS. r 2n two rooms. The floor is covered with a fine, closely-wovenmat of bamboo strips. Over the mat is thrown a rug, in whichblack and brown predominate. The walls looking out to thelake are a series of frames that can be taken out—la
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