A JAPANESE HOLIDAY  “GAILY the Troubadour” as you are the words stand for the which flash across first time gazing one's mind down a Japanese street in all its bravery of holiday attire. From every doorway hang flags and lanterns of red and white bobbing and fluttering in the sunshine and the breeze, while every low roof is garlanded from end to end with rustling paper streamers, and many coloured draperies hang from the low galleries of the upper rooms, where such exist. The streets are crowded with brightly dressed children, happy in the possession of a new kimono (frock) or obi (sash), or chattering and laughing over some newly purchased toy. The shops are all open, and business appears to go on in much the same way as usual, but at holiday time there is more laughing and joking than real business. So quiet and orderly in their fun the Japanese are, that you would feel inclined to think they were not enjoying themselves if you did not know their ways.		They love to see their streets decorated, and their children brightly dressed, and when the lanterns are all lighted at night, with strings of bright red lanterns festooned here and there, glowing like rubies in the dark, Europeans find it very easy to enjoy the bright and pretty scene as much as their Japanese neighbours.
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