MORNING TOILET.  The coiffure, being made to keep for three or four days, needs more or less “retouching” every day; so the first thing the Japanese woman has to attend to in her morning toilet, is to give necessary touches to her deranged hair.  Sometimes other's help is called for in combing the parts beyond the reach of her hands.  The Japanese ladies' hair dressing is a very tedious process, but the result is frequently quite artistic.		BUDDHIST PRIESTS CONSPICUOUS.  The Bonzes, or Buddhist Priests, in Japan are conspicuous for their clean shaved heads and for the gorgeous robes they wear.  They would no more appear in public without a rosary in hand than a samurai of yore would without his conventional swords.   In old times when the samurai had his days, the monastery was the ark where literature was saved from the deluge of Dark Ages.
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