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A wat they have in japan.

--The following characteristic sketch is given of Japanese customs in the intercourse and exposure to each other of the sexes;

‘"Under a porch, and in an angle by the side of the house, a man and his wife are enjoying a tub of warm water in the open air. He is seated on the rim of the the with his legs in the water; his wife. a fine, buxom young women, is busy with a bundle of five, instead of a sponge, rubbing down his back; both are just as they came into the world, and evidently as indifferent to the neighbors as their neighbors are to them. Nobody looks at them, yet it is contrary to your ideas of propriety, and we do not like seeing naked children in the neighborhood, but it is so."’

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