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Updated: July 6, 2025
The streets of Hakamatsu present a lively and picturesque scene, swarming with country people in the gayest of costumes; the stalls are fairly groaning beneath big piles of tempting eatables, toys, clothing, lanterns, tissue-paper flowers, and every imaginable Japanese thing. Street-men are attracting small crowds about them by displaying curiosities.
And from the deeds done on this hillside, the suffering endured, the life given up, the victory won, by every kind and type of man within the British State rich and poor, noble and simple, street-men from British towns, country-men from British villages, men from Canadian prairies, from Australian and New Zealand homesteads one has a vision, as one looks on into the future, of the impulse given here spreading out through history, unquenched and imperishable.
For instance, I saw an assortment of 5-cent goods consisting of 167 dozen articles which would retail, as you can figure, for $100.20; cost to the dealer, $60; profit, $40.20, or 67 per cent, on the investment." "Let's go into the 5-cent business," said the cutlery man "Better start a knife-stand on the street. Do you make goods for street-men?" "No; they handle the cheapest Dutch trash."
Interested groups are gathered around veritable fac-similes of the Yankee "street-men," selling to credulous villagers little boxes of powder for "coating things with silver." Others are selling song-books, attracting customers by the novel and interesting performances of a quartette of pretty girls, who sing song after song in succession.
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