PICKING TEA.  The girls, squatting up and down the rows of little bushes, are plucking off the new-budded leaflets which make the choicest tea of the year. Baskets after baskets are filled with these delicate leaves, amid jokes and snatches of song. These leaves are put through a curing process, after which they are ready for market. Teas consumed by the natives are somewhat different in flavour and taste from those prepared especially for exportation. The most important tea producing district in Japan is Uji, near Kyoto.		SEWING.  Sewing is the common accomplishment of all Japanese women who are instructed in this art while at the primary school. Except in well-to-do families, every day dress is never sent out to a professional tailor or seamstress. Sewing machine being unused, every stitch is to be patiently made by hand. After the sewing is done, the dress is carefully pressed by means of a hot iron as illustrated in the photograph.
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