LABOR IN JAPAN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1773, 22 February 1888, Page 3

LABOR IN JAPAN

Perhaps it iB booauae amusement U considered ao important it. Japan that labor makea but slight demands upon the energies of the people. A s«jvurner tn the happy land writes : " The year befot c last I had to employ two plasterers tv repair a place m the wall of a house, where a piece of plaster of two feet square bad fallen out. Tbe two artists turned op at ten o'olook m the morning, and, sitting down upon a conple of empty wine oasts, lit their pipes. At about, half-past ten one approached *»he damaged place within a yard, took a mental photograph of it, and sat down again. At eleven o'clock a matrai friend appeared, who was warmly welcomed, and, after emokioa: a pipe or two amused them by standing on hin bead, and by that time they had „ot very hungry, ami made a pause of two h >ur_ ior lififii'. Pipes again. Then the one who bad oartfully sonnoed the wall, kncoked another piece of plaster down. Pipes again. By five m the afternoon tbey bad made the hole three times tbe originals 23. and were so thoroughly *_ hansled that they left off. .Next day a stray drop of water — wherever It may bave come from— -lighted on one fellow. i nose, and made him ounolade it was I going to rain, so that no work oonld be done m the afternoon.