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SWORDS OF JAPAN Old Samurai Blades Are Looked Upon as Sacred. HANDLED WITH REVERENCE.; A Curisu* Formula of Etiquetto Fol- j Iowa Whon "tho Stool Biblo of Wo" Is Drawn From It* Sheath by a Hand Which Grasps It In Poaca. If oae were Id a friend's bouse In Japan and should ask to examine one of the aid samurai swords: that rest In the lacqnered sword rack In a place of honor there a curious formula of etiquette would be followed by the host He weald go to a closet and return with a little square of silk la bis band. This be wonld wrap about the sharkskin handle of the sheathed sword before touching bis bare band to the eheath. Then, with bis right hand grasping the silk covered handle and the fingers of his left gingerly raising the lacquered hilt from the rack, the Japanese host wonld lift the sword to the level of bis forehead and bow to It. All this In reverential spirit and with utmost gravity. The square of silk, preserved for no purpose but this and baring Its own name in the Japanese vocabulary, la to prevent the defile- ! mast of the handle by a band which j grasps U In peace. The bow Is meant for tbe spirit of the swordsmlth who forged this weapon. The reverence Is for tbe sword Itself, "soul of the samurai." In tbe Japanese poetical conception nod aptly called by foreigners "the steel Bible of Busbldo." MQI ion M 0017 ioe uegiuuiug ui ius formality. When the Japanese host anaheaths the blade he does It with the edge toward hla own body and the point directed away from hla guest. Whes tbe guest receives the sword In his owi hands he must be careful to keep the outer edge always away from the direction of his friend tbe host. If be wishes to examine both sides of tbe blade be must even turn bis back so that never will the menace of tbe sharpened edge be directed toward bis frtrad. After tbe examination Is completed the sword la returned to Its scabbard, and tbe owner receives it wiy? another bow and places It once more on ' tts race. Tbe etiquette of tbe sword la no empty thing. With the high spirited Japanese, who have Dot forgotteD the many centuries of chivalry and of kaad fighting behind them, the delicately carved and curiously welded sword of the aa mural has a significance almost sacred. There Is a philosophy of the sworn no less stern than the use of the weapon. fit rhe old days when the Japanese fighters wore the war masks and the steel armor aeeu nowadays Id the curiosity shops the boy was taught that as the shining blade must be kept free from spot and corruption, so must his soul be ever clean. Neglect of the blade brings rust; neglect of the soul an Impure character. Then the sharp edge was bold not only as a constant guardian of per 6objU safety and honor, but as a sacred disciplinarian to punish wheuever Its possessor stepped from the narrow path of the Yumuto spirit of chivalry. Again, the sword was emblematical of true eeiitilitv. which is never over bearing or vulgar in deportment, liut sternly self repressive. No men kicv ? when ' f<.??< fill . isiIm.I'?. ? tinw it "j .Japanese I.ma w;tu ; was ltie man win. I r-t u p. . I t!ie rude nrmize blades of a p. online folk by the tempered steel of tlie \ainato i blade. There is in the imperial collection "f swords ai Use castle oi > ara I the weapon worn by the t'rowu Prima; Sholokii. wiio compiled the eonslitu tlon nt seventeen aiin-les in a. 1>. tU)3 tlie oldest sv.ord known in .Japan. Kron that weapon, which was straight ant not curved as ail other swords of Nip pun are. down in tlie fall of the Toku paw a shogiinate in the mitldle of tin last ceniury I lie re is an unbroken Ids tory of tlie art of tlie swnrdsmiili Twelve centuries of recorded art it swordmaking and tlie names of ovel 10.000 makes constitute tlie history of the sword in Japan. The Japanese blade, placed nlmos ou a par with the liamascus produe Id art nnd utility. differs from tlit .Arabiau weapon in one material detail of manufacture. Instead of huviup a UDitorm hiph temper, wtiieh pives the remarkable llexibility possessed by the Damascus blade, the Japanese sword has two tempers, a hard and a mild steel. The edpc of the blade is hard with the tiDest temper, the body and back of a milder temper, sufficient to pive some elasticity. A Japanese sword cannot be bent half double with the pressure of a hand: it is nearly ripid Thouph sword utanufactttre lias eeased to be in Japan today outside of the povernmetit arsenals, whieh turn out only the accepted military blade of the modern army, t he country is tilled with priaed relics of the past art. and these are relics which the Japanese will not sell. A possessor of one of the old swords, keen and blue white In luster as the day It was forged, would sell his bouse, eren himself maybe, before he would part with his iron Bible of Bushido for money.?Japan Magazine. Send Us Your Work Now Oet out yeur season's clotbes now and eead them to u to be French Dry Cleaned or Dyed. Ten will he surprised and delighted st the appearance they will present when returned and will have something that "leeks like new" te start e?T the leaser. with. Bend yeur work new fcaJ^be ready for the season when M gets here and it may get here soon. Send now. Suits Steam Cleaned $1.99. 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