By Li Hemews, a10, res.
Although there are probably 3,000,- 000 persons suffering from leprosy in the world, one can safely travel all over the world and stop at all the important ports of the world without knowingly seeing any leper at all. But it becomes quite impossible to make any extensive trip and to study only very superficially the history, legend, art perature, sculpture and painting of any country, except one will be compelled to five thought to this dreadful disease, for in practically every country, art and science has aff and on busied itself throughout the ages with the hopeless leper, As one leaves San Francisco enroute for the Orient by way of the Mawatian Islands, one may read board ship among the uninteresting. perature on Hawaii, the. classical Philippie Robert Louis "Stevenson hurled at a certain Dr. Hyde for underestimating the work of Father Damien, the man who gave his best and his last for the uplift of the lepers of the Hawaiian Islands As one stops off in beautiful Japan and travels about the sulphur springs of Kumamoto, one will be attracted by the beautiful shrine of Kisomasa, the patron saint of lepers in Japan. Although Kiyomasa was probably. never a leper himself, he was deified because of his heroism shown to his country and his kindness for suf fering humanity.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.