Her need for oil being great, and her own resources small, Japan has of recent years been bringing iene to bear on the problem and ig stadying, with a dogged tenacity of purpose, how to manufacture purposely exaggerated pictures of the "slavery wife" whom the husband treats merely as a "now servant whom he does not necessarily have to pay." Yet the fact remains that, in spite of all the denunciations that have been heaped on the heads of men, in spite of all that has been said' to their discredit and concerning domestic vicissitudes, the majority of the young grins of Japan, especially the Jo-gakusci, or college girls, stand ever ready to brave the perils of matrimony.
In their teens or in the twenty young or disillusioned, romantic or practical, sentimental or blast, there are tons of scores of thousands. whose one desire is to establish a home and who are not seared about the worries that are alleged to go with "a tyrannous husband or bothersome brats, The matrimonial columns of the Japanese news-Papers are often a_ revelation. There will one find Catherinettes ready to marry, or as one advertisement says, "ready to cook, wash. bbe obedient and even bear children." Ladies, in the late thirteen and jeany forties who have been there before, are desirous of going to the registry office or the marriage shrine again, Young girls declare, with a daring that is hidden away behind the cloak of anonymity, that, despite the lack of experience, they are confident that they can make @ man who will care for them happy and (prosperous. The same story may be gleaned from the marriage bureaux scatter: fed over the length and breadth of Japan, One ranson for this, besides the natural and maternal urge, is set down to the system of education which, from the very commence ment, strives to' incukeate in all iris the ideal of "the wise wife and good mother" and for this reason, the urge of all college girls is to mate and be a mother.
There is a new tendency amongst Japanese women, however, that is of more than mere passing interest. This is the feeling that parents should facilitate aequaintance ships between the neces, instead of trying to keep them as much as possible apart. Intertwined with this is the growing demand that marriage, instead of being an arranged affair, should be based on love.
When the more progressive girls of Japan first mentioned this, their elders threw up rheic hands in dismay, what was this new genes tion coming to and where will it all wind up? The demand for love nages is the natural corollary of the [growth of liberalism and individ-Juatiem fu Japan, the change in economic conditions and the recognition of woman's capacities. Young ladies insist tant marriage jest coal-mines in the world and id to possess a deposit of 1,200,000,000 "tons bituminous liquid fuel. Next to oil shale,' jy really the solemntzation of love alcohol is being considered by her ud that, therefore, marriage must chemists. It is that one-|1. based on love. Tus, these coal. A Japanese writer declares that the deposit does not lie in scams or veins, but in one single mass of coal, and that the mine can be roughly described as one huge piece of coal, two miles wide, ten miles long and from 100 to 400 fect deep. quarter of the output of sweet Potatoes produced in Japan can be! made to yield 24,000,000 gallons of faleohol, while one-tenth of the me liang grown in ohina can yield 28,000,000 gallons.
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