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near my heart, while for the majority of the city people I am unfortunately dallying with a strong dislike.  Remember please that I am speaking of the masses in which I do not include such men as Mr. Teranchi the collector at whose home I have been delightfully entertained three times, Mr. Goroku the great artist in silver work, Mr. Riubundo the famous art worker in iron, Kishi Chikudo the old painter and art critic - The famous Kawashima who made your silk kakemono, a photograph of which hangs in his private exhibition room, Mr. Ichihara the head of the Lioto college, a Yale graduate, and others such as they - All these wear Japanese clothes, are Japanese at heart, revere Japanese traditions and possess naturally and gracefully instincts for the poetry, the chivalry, the old time refinements of Japan of our dreams.  They are working to arrest the degradation of their people and to encourage a restoration of old time dress, an appreciation of early art, poetry, and various ceremonies which are quite as well adapted to modern Japan as they were before western teachings caused a state of things entirely un-Japanese to prevail.

Of the women much might be said but as I have seen so little of real family life of home privacy, my