106 ALL ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS.

“There was a class of troublesome nobles called the daimiyo, that have now
been set aside. Their old court dress must have given them a look like a full-
blown snap-dragon, and I guess the government found them all that. The

new-style dress is the for-
eign one of coat and pants,
and is coming into use
pretty fast in some places.
You will see government
officers wearing it, and it
is the fashionable evening
dress, but some ‘people
don’t look as if they felt at
home in it. The emperor
rides out in a European
carriage, and dresses in the
European style. The
houses are apt to be rather
low and they build them of
wood generally. But in
some places like Yoko-
hama, they are beginning
to build more solid.”
_ (Here Gus and Billy be-
gan to be drowsy, as the
auditorium was rather
“close,” and Ralph re-
sorted toaruse. “Fire!
Fire!” he shouted. Billy
and Gus started, and be-
gan to gaze about wildly)
“J was only going to remark,” resumed the lecturer, “ that they have had some
_ fearful fires in J apan, because the houses are so generally of wood and so lightly
built, but as I said they are building more solid. The head of the Japanese goyv-

 

DAIMIYO IN COURT DRESS.