A Curious Japanese Ceremony

It is "after ndghtfall on the last nijilit of the oM year" that a curious ceremony called oni hor ai, or ''devil expulsión," ie performed. Tlie liead of the faniiiy, with a box oí roasted bearas, goes tato every room in the house, and scattermg the beans about the room aanl into every corner, cries out : "Faku wa aclii, oni --a sotó" - ''Happlness witjbiin, the devil wlthoiit.'' On that night no one is supposed to sleep, but if one should for any rèason go to sleep, oue must cerfcainly wake at about four o'clock of New Year's day, which is -'the day of three beginnings- of a day, a