Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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reserhling a hot tamale wrapped in corn husks.
There was a Japanese ran singing and harp playing, both very pecu1iak;-The
perfomce of a Japanese mgician very good indeed. The house was made
of cedar wood and finished with blue lacquer. On a strip of ceiling about
thirty feet long and ten feet wide was solid ehroidery. Mr. Asano and
Mrs. Asano were both In the reception line-they are quite old. Two of
the Misses Asano have attended school in Boston and one was quite e
in her declaration that she prvfemd New York to Boston because t h r 2
mre life in New York and that Boston was slow. @I our way in the station
in Yokohama I saw a Japanese school being dismissed. The children cavried
their full supply of books away each ni@t. Their ink bogtles are suspended
from their fingers by a double string bled about the neck of the bottle.
The boys and girls are freqenKty seen with a baby strappqd to their backs
like a Japanese mther. The babies are taken to school, hd they interfe~
very much with the lessons. An effort is now being made t$ establish day
nurseries in connection with all the schools.
The costm of the Japanese schoolboy is very characteris$ic and is sem
thmugout Japan. It consists of a white cap with black peak, a black
waist with a larger white splotchy design. A daylk gown of grayish white
shirt which on close observation pmves to be a divided shirt. No stockin@,
but wooden sandals. Often he carries a book sack. Tne boys seem to
make just as much speed in the wooden sandals as the Amrican schoolboys
in shoes. Here's a picture of him.
Q. I didn't bow you could draw, too.
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A. The girls wore their hair combed straight back;tied at the neck. No
hats. They ware red pleated skirts and flowered or plain 'waists, bare feet
except for wooden getto sandals. On this baby's head is 8 hat of China silk,
always bright color. Pink, yellow or golden brown. The gchool opem at
7: 30 a.m. and closes at 1: 30 p.m. Frglish is taught ,In at1 of the schools
in Japan." Notice the wooden sandals. [refers to illustmtion] I $nst
have messed up her mouth so~way. She looks Like she has a mustaches
Q. I think she looks lovely.
A. I1Niss MacDonald, a young worn whoE went with the Sibellian comrdasion to
Vladivostok in August, 1918, and has bken in charge of thq cable service
there for the Fled Cmss ever sbce, c led upon us at
where we lived. "Our passport8 were % c llected to be
Russian consul. And as the cmwd was hll together, I
amphitheater on the hi@ steps of the hospital and
cDonald address
us on the work in Vladivostok and Siberia. She statkd
that there was a very warm seaqon and that we woul
the Red Cross had issued. She claimed that mil
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