Middletown Transcript

Resting Days.-Among the national changes in Japan, it is now announced by a late proclamation, that the six regular resting days of each month are hereafter abolished, and that the number of resting days is reduced to four a month, which are made to correspond with the Christian Sabbath. The Japanese are also adopting the custom of using the latter part of Saturday for rest and recreation, it is said that all the foreigners in Japan are delighted with this new arrangement. But we are assured by some of our papers that foreigners, at Philadelphia, will be disgusted if we do not throw open the exhibition and keep all the vast machinery of the World's Fair in full blast on every day of the week. We have nothing in the country more characteristic and significant than our Christian Sabbath, and it would be a pity and a shame if we make the Centennial an opportunity to show the world that we are ready to surrender our most cherished habits and most precious privilege.