Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1920 — Old Japan Disappearing. [ARTICLE]

Old Japan Disappearing.

' Jabari 'is so fast adapting and -adopting not only w-estern customs and manners,' but western architecture, as well, but the traveler, who wishes to see anything Japanese must get out of the cities and off the beaten track. Standing on the Ginza, Tokio’s main thoroughfare, the stranger will . be amazed at the variety of fashions that will pass along before A gentleman in evening .dress is followed by another who wears a frock coat and bowler hat, and by still another robed in native haori and hakama, canopied by a top hat, and sporting an expensive cane or umbrella. Behind these strolls along a man in overalls, followed by one In a yet more mongrel costume —a suit of white cotton underwear, over which Is a cotton kimono and no shirt. All this is immensely comical, but the Japanese take It as a matter of course. The Japanese women, however, are free from these (Eurasian indiscretions In dress and , habit, preserving b's yet their graceful native costumes.