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32 feel cold in weather like this. [[underline]] men and women muffled; lacks the cheerful [[/underline]] aspect and bright colors [[underline]] of summer. Winter is no time to be in Japan. [[/underline]] Hilly country pretty sky line. Then flat cultivated patches, for rice and vegetables. Pine woods, then extensive woods of very straight and tall bamboo. [[underline]] Kyoto [[/underline]] Picturesque houses. Orange on the trees and bamboos, but water in the ponds [[underline]] covered with ice. Cold [[/underline]] wind blowing. At station see groups of school children, boys and girls red cheeked, little keen eyes peeping out of their round faces. and slap-slap noise of their wooden stilt shoes. They are all out [[end page]] [[start page]] 33 on a school picnic. - eager with expectation, looks sturdy and [[strikethrough]] stron [[/strikethrough]] cheerful short but stocky. [[underline]] Do not seem to mid the cold weather [[/underline]] and go lustily out to the open country [[underline]] Osaka [[/underline]] Many many [[underline]] tall chimneys, and large industrial cement buildings [[/underline]] and between all this an endless mount of small houses, clustered along a labrinth of crooked streets Dangers [[underline]] fire-traps. [[/underline]] No wonder whole cities burn at one time here. Very [[underline]] large population Thousands of every kind [[underline]] population coming in and out of the station Most [[underline]] incongruous [[/underline]] variety of costumes. Amongst men [[strikethrough]] Eur [[/strikethrough]] Western Clothes seem to predominate here. This being the [[underline]] industrial [[/underline]] and most [[underline]] modernized [[/underline]] town of Japan. Yet next to