Japanese girls in Dairen refuse to the outdone by their progressive sisters in their homeland as they are rapidly appearing in all kinds of ceccupations formerly run by men, where they can be of any use. They are seen most prominently on the trams and buses where they make the right sounds at stopping places and starting points, clip and hand out tickets and collect them when passengers get off.
Girls are also well to the fore in offices, bending industriously over typewriters, furiously combing what corresponds to filing cabinets in Japan for elusive cards and smiling winningly as they carry out a saleeman's work. They are also a marked advance in, the colour scheme on business premises, Conversely there is one type of employment that is left in sad' solitude here by the women of Japan. That is domestic service. There are no seekers after such humble jobs and the employment agencies in this ort are at a loss over what to do with the Increasing number of rulous inquiries as to why servants are not forthcoming.
Little drops of water" might have fence fund. At his house he has a fine well of ice-cold water and when the water famine laid iis hand on pitchers, to assist their extremely Umited supply. But, being a good businessman he saw where he could fain a little something for his country and s0 levied a tax of every occasion water, was taken away.
When water came on in an eight hour rush he had collected his fee 3842 times, The amount was grate: fully accepted by the local representatives for the defence fund. dona-
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