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THE MONMOUTH HERALD, MONMOUTH. OREGON FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1923 -at »c x x x -jac •!« x » :• ■>: Page ft :♦> x x •»: <«■ a «. > .w . | M ake Practical Gifts This Christmas | g W hy not give a piece of Furniture this year to beautify the home. It will be a constant reminder of the giver the year round. W e have a number of Practical Gifts, suitable for each member of the family and within the reach of every one. t if A Few Suggestions * » Rockers, Cedar Chests, Smoking cabinets, Sewing baskets, Beauti ful Pictures and many other practical gifts. Small Rugs We will help you solve your Christmas gift problems We have just received a factory shipment of small Axminister rugs. Every woman can always u.-e another mall rug in her home. MOORE & ADDISON Independence WM. C. RETZER Jew eler and O ptician Phone 352 Dallas, Oregon 412 Main St. open « v e n in r tn iiJ 'Xroa.s (Continued from Page 1) since. The rocky path by which we ascend ed seemed more like the dried bed of a torrent than a road. Two-thirds of the way to the top we came into pine woods, and found within them a small temple as charming as some enchant ed place. A priest wished to give us lunch. He told us the temple was very old, a fact to be seen without telling. Here had once lived the founder of that branch of Buddhism that believes in salvation by faith. M t i M O — O— Q 1 G M K 3 — O M P WBO— O T SM C jM O Bfr • » •»> X - * ft Everything in Readiness for Saturday and Monday-Last days Salem Woolen Mills Store C. P. BISHOP, Prop. • 136 N. Commercial St. Salem, Ore. Last Minute Suggestions Treasure Trove of 1 for Men and Boys — Silk Mufflers — Silk Shirts — Knitted Ties — Fur-lined («loves — Silk Garters — Wool Vests — Umbrellas — Handkerchiefs — Sweater Coats — Bath Robes — Wool Scarfs — Madras Shirts — Silk Hosiery — Driving Gloves — Wool Hosiery — Silk Pajamas — Warm Undershirts — Cuff Links — Belts and Buckles — House Jackets — Everything A Man Needs, Wants and Wears An Ideal Gilt A Pendleton Indian Blanket This store will be open Saturday and Monday evenings His lifelong pupil, who lived here with him, had founded the Shingon sect, the priests of which marry. The two biggest temples in Kyoto, the Nishi and Higashi Honganji, belong to this sect. So we had Happened on very holy ground. Before we reached the actual sum mit we met two schools of very small children, from villages somewhere. When the Japanese climb mountains they go thus in throngs. You think you have come by well-nigh inaccess ible paths, and your feet, shod in sub stantial American shoes, ache from the stones; then suddenly you are crowded from the path by a whole school marching along two by two, their bare feet protected only by straw sandals or flapping, noisy wood en geta. From Hieisan’s top one has a fine view of Central Japan— Kyoto below, Osaka’s smokestacks in the distance, and beyond them the harbor o f Kobe. On the other side spreads Lake Biwa. We descended to Sakamoto on the lake by another very steep path, through groves of small trees These trecj, standing row on row, are part of the general reforesting of Japan. We took a boat from Sakamoto to the city of Otzu, and from there came back to Kyoto through a canal. This canal, which brings the water supply from Lake Biwa to the city, passes in three places through tun nels under the hills, one of which is two miles long. We had a pictur esque boatman and two beautiful lanterns.. Behind us at a little dis tance came a boatload of Japanese, much the worse for sake. They sang loudly and off pitch, and the tunnel rang with noise. The current bore ur along swiftly, but returning the boat man has literally to pull his boat along hand over hand by a cable fas'ened to the wall. We passed many o f these returning boats, only a light until they were right beside us, then they vanished in the black ness. A few nights after our trip up the mountain I went to the theatre. The first of the four plays was a classic al drama that had as its setting Mount Hiei, its principal character, Nobunaga, and its theme the destruc tion of the monastries. This was my first experience at a Japanese theatre. 1 hadn’t intended to enjoy it, hut went with the idea of seeing it once anyway. The curtain came down. I mean that; it is not a mis take; the curtain came down, and ;«• Oregon x- » was dragged off at 3 o ’clock ip the a f ternoon, and the first play began. I sat on the floor until 11 o’clock, too interested to feel fatigue. We had, of course, checked our shoes at the front door. Our box was next to the stage, and the audience found us as amusing as we found them. The in side of the theatre did not look un like one at home, while the play went on—just rows of people in a dimly lighted room— until one realized that the aisles were raised and the people sat on the floor. These raised par titions cut the whole floor space into boxes. A man comes to his particu lar box, steps down, folds his feet un der him, and there he is. The acting seemed artificial but ar tistically perfect, the costuming gor geous. Nobunga wore stiff bro cades, while the priests who stalked about on high geta, wore quite won derful white robes. The emperor’s messenger, who made his entrance and exit along a raised platform through the audience, came in on the most marvelous of all horses. It de serves superlatives, that horse, per fectly good until one looked at his legs, which were unmistakably those o f ricksha men. The stage revolved. When the scene changed it sifnply turned around, and we had m excellent view from all angles. When the back reached the front, carpenters put in a few nails, and the x x- ■:<* x- ■»> x- x play went on. The orchestra, con-! the actors and handed or took away sistirg o f three men who sang and properties as needed. Presently two who played an instrument of i they became no more than properties three strings, sat to one side on the ♦hemselves. stage. The second play was older than the Every half an hour or so the usher fiist, a classic that is often given by optned the screen at the back of our a modern drama, in which the char box and set in a fresh pot of tea. At acters either were killed or committed the fiist intermission we began on hari-kiri. The fourth was a dance. our supper, which we had brought I came away with an impression of with us done up in laige handker much action and a riot of color, and a chiefs called "furoshiki” . Now the feeling that centuries of civilization whole audience became one grand have gone on contemporaneously with picnic party. Japanese food was European civilization, but with no bi ought in red lacquer boxes, and connecting link. Sometimes one there was much passing of tansan thinks he understands the Japanese, bottles and champagne cider. Be when they are actuated by purely low us sat two parties of Japanese human motives— for instance, during Then, when we gentlemen, which, our interpreter in- the earthquake. foiased us, were, the one a life in walk through miles of streets of cu surance society, the other a society rious little houses, and come up for the appreciation of art. The against a daily life, not to mention li.’e insurance men were very, gay and an art, a literature and a language, had many geisha to enterta.n them. totally incomprehensible, one is The art appieciators were a well be again hopelessly at sea. haved and dignified lot. But there is nothing incomprehen When the bell rang for the next sible about reclaiming shoes at the play the audience resumed a proper door of the theatre, in a crowd of appcaiance, but the eating and drink Japanese mothers with children, in ing continued at each intermission. surance men and geisha, each holding The bell was a large electric gong a claim chick and none desiring to at the back of the house. The way step into the street without his own I felt almost as in which stage mechanism is in view particular geta. is at first disconcerting. Stage though Pd been through another hands never trouble to leave the stage earthquake when I finally reached and the property men sat right beside the tram.— Oregon Journal. -x- :>;• •s» ft x- x- -x- • <«• -x- -x- ■x- ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft v ; Late Christmas Purchases fiMade M ost Satisfactorily The week before Christmas is not too late for you to buy much-wanted presents here. There is beauty, style, quality and infinite variety to choose from in presents for women, men, boys, girls, babies and the home. That extra thrill of delight our name on the gift box brings, comes just the same even though the purchase was made right before Christmas. 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