12,750
======

B

owns 62 _cho_ 4 _tan_ and receives in rent 623 _koku_ 7 _to_. Members
of family, 11; servants, 8.

EXPENDITURE OF PAST YEAR

yen
House 519
Food and drink (18 sen each per day for members of
family; 13 sen each for servants) 1,102
Fuel 156
Light 36
Clothing 770
Education (3 middle-school boys at 20 yen per month;
3 primary-school boys and girls at 2 yen) 312
Social intercourse 120
Amusements (journey, 100 yen; summer trip, 231;
others, 50) 381
Miscellaneous (servants, 480 yen; medicine, 150; other
things, 150) 780
Donations 300
Taxes 3,976
______
8,451
======

THE "BENJO" [IV]. I never noticed a case in which earth was thrown
into the domestic closet tub according to Dr. Poore's system. I have
come across attempts to use deodorisers, but the application of a
germicide is inhibited because of the injury which would be caused to
the crops. Farmers are chary about removing night soil which has been
treated even with a deodoriser. I ventured to suggest more than once
that Japanese science should be equal to evolving a deodoriser to
which the farmer, who in Japan seems to be so easily directed, could
have no objection. The drawback to using Dr. Poore's system is that
the added earth would greatly increase the weight of the substance to
be removed. There would be the same objection to the use of _hibachi_
ash (charcoal ash), but there is not enough produced to have any
sensible effect. The truth is that there is no lively interest in the
question of getting rid of the stink for everyone has become
accustomed to it. The odour from the _benjo_--the politer word is
_habakari_--which is always indoors, though at the end of the _engawa_
(verandah), often pen