Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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wall, a mud parbition, separating it Mrn the next paddyf eld. Somtims
these are arranged in fantastic shapes. Only twenty per pent of Japan is
tillable, but every space possible is used. Gne sees no horses in
Japan, cultivating is done by hand. Men pull people
by the thousands, running miles sometlms. lkn, and
laads,that a home riL@t find difficult. The
the neck of a beast of burden, and all of the
the use of the muscle in the neck. Man never
On our trip up the muntain we saw En, wornen and childre sif'ting out
different grades of gravel by mans of hand sieves. It s b ems as everything
in Japan is done by the mst difficult; mans. Labor is very cheap and consequently
mechanical devices for saving labor are not in delnand. WOT carrying
great packs of coal," I remuber that distin~tly , "on their baclQs , in
sacks, receive one yen or fifty cents per day. There m many IittLe stream?,
through Japan f'rom the many mountains. he sees a nLwlber of little water
wheel mills everywhere. A few baby carriages m in evifience, but most of
the babies are st~apped to the back of the mother, brother or sister. It
took us until ll:3O p.m. to get back to Yokohama from Nwo. En mute We
ate ow suppers, dainty little sandwiches packed in small, wooden boxes. Also
cherries and cider and tea. We sang our hflcan songs a/nd the natives
hardly mew whether to be amused, frightened or disgusted as we pawed them
at the stations. It was quite a shock to m to hear Japs singing, "It I s
a Long, Long Way to Tipperary , ' as they walked along no1 sly in the street
in their wooden shoes. The children of Japan seem to be B. neglected lot.
They all have squatty heads and ~ d n noses. g Moreover, there am a great
pmfbsion of tiny babies, smll children and older chil-n everywhere. "
"bday, June 22, 1919; Went to church both morning and wenkg at the
Thion Church organized for all denominations. The congr€gations am small.
Reverend MartFn is in charge. In the afternoon nmes ar@ aides went to a
tea given in their honor at the hom of Mrs. Sneyd, whosq husband is prominent
in YMCA work. Met a Mr. And Mrs. Jurgenson, UMCA workers in ToQo.
Also Mrs. Phelps whose husband is in Y work in Siberia. b. Woodbe~*ry, Miss
MacIntire, Miss Mgaret PhcCawley and I went together to supper af'ter which
we shopped a little . ''
"Monday, June.23, 1919; Went to Tokyo with Kiss Bridge. Got filfst view
of Mt. Fujiyama tom at 5: 30 a.m. It is about a hundred miles away, but
the si&t was wonderful. I went around and wakened all @E nurses qo see it.
Visit with MSS Mishi Kawai at the YWCA. Wonderful work 3s being d e in
this institution. I mt Miss Kawal in Springfield, Illlr@is, somet rn ago
when she was lecturing in AmrLca. She is a graduate of pryn Mawr d a
close friend of Hss Barnbridge, secretary of the YWCA in Bpringfiel . Learned
from.Ws Kmaj, . that the n?glish classes are most popu&w among t e Japanese
ladies, and that the gynnasiwn is least populm as it is difficult o get
the Japanese women to exercise. A Mss Su Yami accompar&d me to a large
department store in Tokyo. Fn mute she answe~d many ingui~i&s
You can tell I asked questions.
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just wonderful. ~~ of questions were about the ob4, and she said