--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Abna O. Taylor collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 5 number: 7 published: 1902-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Abna O. Taylor, "Some Features of Japanese Life. II," *Improvement Era* 5, no. 7 (May 1902): 528.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0507unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera0507unse start_page: 528 end_page: 528 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0507unse publication_year: 1902 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1902, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Some Features of Japanese Life. II 528 IMPROVEMENT ERA. covers over, a person may be "as snug as a bug in a rug." Were I to express my feelings on this kind of comfort, I should say that I never slept better in my life, and I wish all the unfortunate poor could rest in such a warm and convenient bed. Alongside the bed of each person, there is placed a paper lantern from which the dull light of the flickering tallow-dip shines all night long. After invoking the blessings of Heaven upon us in our new home, we completed the lessons of the day by getting into our Japanese cradles on the floor, where sleep soon closed our eyes upon these scenes of the first twelve hours of real life in the Mikado's empire.