Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — Never Toward the North. [ARTICLE]

Never Toward the North.

The Japanese never sleep with the head to the north. This is because the dead, in Japan, are always buried with the head in that position. In the sleeping rooms of private houses, and of hotels even, a diagram of the points of the compass is posted upon the ceiling lor the convenience of guests.