er exactness, the _miya mairi_ of a boy is on the
thirty-first day of his life,--of a girl, on the thirty-third.

_Page 8._

T[=o]ky[=o] just now shows a tendency to change this national custom.
Gayly painted wicker baby carriages with cotton awnings are seen in
large quantities in the shops, and one meets mothers and little sisters
of the lower classes, propelling the baby in a little four-wheeled wagon
instead of wearing it on the back, as formerly. These carriages are, of
course, the exception, and may prove to be but a passing T[=o]ky[=o]
fashion, but they seem to me to mark another step in the modernizing of
Japan, and may prove of value in the physical development of the common
people.

_Page 11._

In the T[=o]ky[=o] of 1891 butchers and milkmen were very little in
evidence, as the demand for their wares came mainly from the few
foreigners and foreign restaurants in the city. In 1901 a walk of half a
mile or so in the neighborhood of Kojimachi, one of the principal
business streets in a purely Japanese section of the city, shows five
meat shops; and milkmen, in westernized shirts and knickerbockers, with
golf-stockings and straw sandals, draw their gay-colored carts
everywhere through the city, and call at a large proportion of the
houses. Condensed milk, too, is to be found on the shelves of every
provision store, together with canned and dried meats, and the
restaurants where foreign food is served are distributed throughout the
entire city, and do a thriving business on Japanese patronage. The less
extravagant country people declare that T[=o]ky[=o] is "eating itself
up," but so far no terrible increase of indebtedness seems to follow the
change in the standard of living. It is interesting to note that the
scalp troubles referred to on page 11 seem to have greatly lessened in
the last ten years, whether because of the change in the food or for
other reasons, I cannot determine.

_Page 24._

Twice, after the _miya mairi_ of her babyhood, does our little maid
repair to the temple to seek the blessing of her patron god upon a step
forward in her short life: once, when at the age of three, the hair on
her small head, which until then has been shaved in fancy patterns, is
allowed to begin its growth toward the coiffure of womanhood; and once,
when she has attained her seventh year, and exchanges the soft, narrow
sash of infancy for the stiff, wide _obi_ which is the pride of every
well-dressed Japanese