Changing Roles of Japanese Women Through Time
An exploration of Japanese women from ancient norms to modern emancipation highlights how strict gender roles shaped minds and arts. It profiles figures like Kashi Iwamoto and Baroness Nakajima, noting shifts in education, writing, and public life across eras and the impact of Western influence.
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Murasakishikibu
Genji
Japan
Seishonagon
Shiran Yanagawa
Kashi Iwamoto
Iwamoto
Zenji Iwamoto
Meiji Jogakko
Baroness Nakajima
Ichigo Higuchi
Higuchi
Kaho Miyake
Kajita
Otsuke
Uta Imai
Miss Imai
Nijuseiki Nofujin
Hokkaido Woman’s Society
Japan's Ancestral Gods Renew Ise Shrines In Grand Festival
The London Standard notes Japan's 21 year renewal of the imperial Ise shrines. The ritual procession marks the removal of sacred treasures to the new holy of holies amid vast ceremony and a crowd of about 40,000. A virgin offers earth jar rites and priests in green and gold chant ancient sutras as the sacred fabrics are measured.
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Japan
Ise
London Standard
Imperial House
Sloan's Liniment Endorsed for Sore Throat and Chest Pain
A Fredonia Kansas user, Mr. A W Price, testifies Sloan's Liniment relieves sore throat chest pains and sneezing. He notes a few drops on sugar stops coughing and is praised as an excellent treatment for colds hay fever and related chest discomfort.
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Sioan
A.W. Price
Fredonia
Kans
Sloan
Earl S. Sloan
Boston
Mass
Cascarets Prove Cure for Chronic Indigestion and Sour Stomach
Harry Stuckley of Mauch Chunk Pennsylvania reports two years of dyspepsia and sour stomach, says Cascarets gave lasting relief when other medicines failed, praises them as pleasant tasty effective and safe. Product ads note price ranges 10 25 and 50 cents with a money back guarantee.
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Harry Stuckley
Mauch Chunk
Giraffe Declines Man Garb Plan Over Collar Costs
A humorous tale notes Ife imagines a giraffe dressing in human clothes but balks at ten dollar collars, concluding the plan is too expensive. The punchline underlines thrift over style.
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Ife
What He Was After
A Georgia youth named George Washington Henry Clay Lincol n Carter was questioned after being found in a white neighbor's henhouse at 1 am. He denied stealing chickens and claimed he was only gathering local color for a dialect piece, insisting he did not intend harm.
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George Washington
Henry Clay
Lincoln Carter
Georgia
Darkey
George W. H. C. L. C
Mars George
Change the Vibration It Makes for Health
An admirer promotes a meatless breakfast plan featuring fruit Grape-Nuts with cream crisp toast and Postum. He claims improved health as low nutritive foods give way to easily digested nutrients and minerals like natural phosphate of potash. A few days of Grape-Nuts allegedly boosts nervous strength. readers are urged to seek the booklet The Road to Wellville and note the slogan There’s a Reason.
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Wellville
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