eight or ten feet square,
pen of racks and cases, arrayed
KKf form of a hollow square, with a
Mj|F passage to afford an entrance
The chief compositor sits at
In the center with a case con
■■■t a supply of the forty-seven kana
IH||> him and a long peculiar-looking
EMKeing stick In his hand. He cuts
■M) each of his live or six assistants,
usually small boys and girls
HHyamazing memories. They have
M|own composing sticks, and, with
■■f •‘takes” held deftly with tho com-
MSI* sticks in their left hands, they
HMLAround in front of the cases and
typo that are needed from tho
HMdering mass of cases, singing
■M the name of the character until
Mtt&flnd it. Tho work of composition
a bedlam, which would
Hm an American printer out of his
when a boy has collected all the char
■■Kln his “take” he places the coin-
Btifet stick with the copy upon the
the chief compositor, who
jffilja big pair of strong magnifying
MjlM, and bo arranges them in his
IMLWB kana from his own case when
needed. Then lie dumps them
■Mlllley and turns them over to th 4
MVMr attendant, who pulls a proof p
ImH It with the copy to the » -///
Mfiflh*. who reads It aloud whip
■Httßt holds tho copy nnd fo’ J’ ’ 11 ? "*
■■Explained that child re-
M*t the compositor bp*- to
Kr memories than ■“?>
KE) lingers are r 'l'"'." . V’, elr
■bneont of d ° rt in Picking
E extraord’ ' thft Pnrrow slips, and
Editor I anry memory of a child
,4b always amazing to the
MM"* ™ Japan.
