The First Was Most Trying, For He Persisted In Attempting To Speak
English, Of Which He Knows About As Much
As I know of Japanese, but
the last, after some grotesque attempts, accepted Ito's services.
The school is a commodious
Europeanised building, three stories
high, and from its upper balcony the view of the city, with its
gray roofs and abundant greenery, and surrounding mountains and
valleys, is very fine. The equipments of the different class-rooms
surprised me, especially the laboratory of the chemical class-room,
and the truly magnificent illustrative apparatus in the natural
science class-room. Ganot's "Physics" is the text book of that
department.
I. L. B.
LETTER XXII
A Silk Factory - Employment for Women - A Police Escort - The Japanese
Police Force.
KUBOTA, July 23.
My next visit was to a factory of handloom silk-weavers, where 180
hands, half of them women, are employed. These new industrial
openings for respectable employment for women and girls are very
important, and tend in the direction of a much-needed social
reform. The striped silk fabrics produced are entirely for home
consumption.
Afterwards I went into the principal street, and, after a long
search through the shops, bought some condensed milk with the
"Eagle" brand and the label all right, but, on opening it, found it
to contain small pellets of a brownish, dried curd, with an
unpleasant taste! As I was sitting in the shop, half stifled by
the crowd, the people suddenly fell back to a respectful distance,
leaving me breathing space, and a message came from the chief of
police to say that he was very sorry for the crowding, and had
ordered two policemen to attend upon me for the remainder of my
visit.
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