Japanese Tea-house

All along tho strcets of Yokohama, more or li;ss, ure. planhd picasant teahouses. We " tea" here, when we must stop by the way side, and in nioh little bits of cups that 1 could drink the contents ot' twenty of them, and tben want more. .Pretty tea-girls stand by the entrance, 'and (their teeth not yct blaokeaed) with protty wayg ,and courtosies so facinating, that têa, even without sugar or milk, beOOmes iigrooable. Tou-houses ure tho grogshops of Japan, üur protty laquered waitersi the tea-girls, baad you little tiny oups, witte il inouthf'ul in thein, and you squat down on the nioo clean mats, if squat you can, - I have to stretch out at length, and lili up half a tea-room, - and you sip and sip and sip this mouthful of' hot tea as if the god% nectar was goingdown your throat in infinitesimal drops of miorosopio invisibility. Tea, like sleep, is a great invention. ïhcro's Bass's beer, all the way from London, stuck up on tho corner of the teahouse shop, for beer-drink ing, traveling Englishmen ; but whsit's ü.tss's buur to tea - tea, if you can only get enough of it, this hot weathor, with the thermomeier over 90. A Japan tea-house koepor picks out as pretty a place for tbo tea-houae as he or she (the keeper) can get. Tlie keeijer cov:t.s, if pu.-.sibh', a view of, and the ail of, the Btiy of Yetldo, aloiig which, the most of the way hcre, nuiit the Toraido. Tiir grand toa-house is out up into numeüous littlo rooms, wilh paper partitions bctween to part them, running on slideS, but all removable at will. Cakes, sweet]]n-ut.s,and oandies are brought on with the tea,all put on the clean matted floor (there are no seats), and we all sqaat or -stretch out on that floor. It is stiñing hot in these tea houses just now, and a stretch out is a