Identifier: cu31924071165637 (find matches)
Title: The Russo-Japanese war fully illustrated : v. 1-3 (no. 1-10), Apr. 1904-Sept. 1905
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Publisher: Tokyo : Kinkodo-shosekikabushiki-kaisha (The Kinkodo publishing co)
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE WEDDING CEREMONY.
learning, for in their opinion it would only conduce to make them proud and contentious, and thus fall into the danger of displeasing their husbands when they were married. Girls of the upper classes were generally attended by professional instructors specially engaged by their parents. They were taught letter-writing, poem-composition, the art of playing on musical instruments, of arranging flowers in a vase, of making tea, &c. Moral lessons were given by their mothers, and chosen books were set the lessons of farmers daughters; while needle-work was considered an indispensable art for girls of the middle and lower class families to possess. At the present time, a system of general education has been adopted and every child who has attained the age of seven is by law forced to attend school. Every town and village is provided with one or more schools,the number increasing in proportion to the population. High schools, and normal schools for both sexes or separately for either are established
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H. I. H. Princess Hisako, the Consort of Prince Yamashina.
WOMANS EDUCATION. 577
in every town. Colleges arid universities which are not behind any of the American or English institutions offer the highest education. In common schools, the Japanese language, penmanship, arithmetic, morals, history,elementary lessons of various sciences,and even English are taught. Nor is physical culture neglected. Everything is modern in plan and system. Girls enjoy higher education just as boys. They are also taught in such lines of work as are necessary for the peculiar position they have to hold in society. In Tokyo, there is a girls university fully equipped with excellent professors. Some girls study for fuller accomplishment and other with the purpose of becoming teachers. There are societies formed by ladies for various purposes, literary, social, philanthropical, &c. Some of the magazines that are published by them aim to improve woman's position, and to extend her influence in society. Our women know too well the peculiar part they have to play and are too conscious of their duties,

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