Their educational exhibit shows the same wonderful energy and advancement.  There is a compulsory educational law and twenty-two per cent. of the children attend school.  There are schools for the blind, deaf and feeble-minded, and a display of all their excellent methods of education, from kindergarten to the imperial university.

In the Palace of Electricity on a map thirty feet high and twenty-five feet wide, you see pictures of Japan’s great engineering work, Lake Biwa Canal, connecting the Lake with Kioto.  Irrigating, electricity making, electrical apparatus invented by them, they have nearly twenty-five thousand telephones, long and short distance.

In the tea exhibit you see everything relating to this beverage, tea houses, experimental farms and over one hundred different kinds of tea are shown.  Rice is shown in every stage of its growth, tobacco, fruit, canned goods.

You can enter the Forestry and Fish departments through a temple built of twenty different kinds of wood.  Here you see all the native forest woods, bamboo takin’ the lead.  Their fish and their methods of fishing are shown off, charts of their fishing grounds and boats.  The Japanese section of the Palace of Fine Arts has the best samples of sculpture, painting and pottery.

But the crownin’ beauty of the Japanese display is the Enchanted Garden (well-named).  A charmin’ little lake lies in the midst of flower beds and hedges, dotted by aquatic flowers.  Beds of hydrangeas and chrysantheums and other bright flowers glow in the sunlight.  A pretty summer house stands on a little island and bending over the water are dwarf pine trees brought from Japan.  At one end is a waterfall, and there is a pleasant tea house where pretty Japan girls serve tea on the broad galleries.

Beyend the lake you see a model Japanese house and not fur off is the headquarters of the Japanese commission.  Near the top of the hill is a large pavilion made of wood and bamboo.  It is used as a reception room, and here you see Japanese costooms from the earliest day to the present.  Here are pictures of the Emperor and Empress.  There is a display here also of the Red Cross society, medical boxes of army and navy, etc.  This is the only hint this courteous country gives of the great war going on at home that would stop the exhibit of most any other country.  They are a wonderful people and are making swift strides to the front in every direction.  I took sights of comfort here and so did Josiah.

I said a big war would stop the exhibit of most every country—­it has stopped Russia—­she don’t have much show here to the Fair, they wanted to, and laid out to, but couldn’t on account of havin’ to go to war.  It is dretful busy this year, killin’ off men, and sendin’ out men all the time to be killed, so of course, it can’t devour the same time in more peaceful occupations.

I wuz really sorry, for I always liked the Zar.  Of course, we don’t visit back and forth, he havin’ the misfortune to not live neighbor to us.  But I always thought he wuz likely, real smart and good-natered, lovin’ his wife and babies devotedly, settin’ a splendid example in this direction to other high potentates who act and behave more or less.