Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1896 — Where Death Never Cornea. [ARTICLE]

Where Death Never Cornea.

Mrs. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore writes a paper entitled “An Island Without Death” for The Century. It is devoted to the Island of Mlyajima, one of the three wonders of Japan. Mrs. Scidmdre says: It is a strange little village, where.no wheel ever turns, where no fields are tilled, and where the religious rules of so many centuries have forbidden deaths or births to occur, many a sou} entering and leaving the world in the boat that hurriedly bears them over to the Aki shore. The tiny village of Ono, in a crevice of the opposite Aki hills, shows from the island its cremation temple a«id graveyard, where generations of Miyajima people have been laid away, and the little thatched dwellings where Miyajima mothers remain until their infants are thirty days old, when they may be taken back with rejoicings for their first ceremonial risL* to the great temple.