Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1917 — JAPANESE KNOW NO PRIVACY [ARTICLE]

JAPANESE KNOW NO PRIVACY

The Bay of Kizukl is a Japanese watering place, and, like any watering place in America, it has a fine sandy beach stretching half a mile between two long green hills and a great hotel and casino and good fishing. In addition to these things it has a sacred temple and a wonderfur’rock. The hotel is sufficiently different from any outside the Orient, for Its every room is open to the street, and you may see at a glance dozens of families playing, eating, sleeping. The Japanese do not know privacy as the Occident knows it. They go about all thligs openly. Which has led some observers to call them a nation of monkeys and others to say that they are the most natural people in the world. All day at Kizukl bay the people will disport themselves as man has disported by the sea since before his memories began. The water will be filled with splashing figures and the air with the shrill voices of children and women, the deep guffaws of men. There Is music, too, of the Japanese sort, and men put out in boats to fish and sail in the safe little harbor within the arms of the hills. But the event of the day comes In the evening, when the sun drops Into the bay. turning it into gold, and the protecting arms of the hills are plunged in night. Then does the lone rock spire of Kizukl bay stand out in a silhouette of majestic curves against a fiery sky. And all the people come to, look and admire. For to even the humblest Japanese the severe beauty of a rock spire against a sunset sky Is solace and Inspiration.