Many people wonder at the extreme modesty in prices asked by the Japanese for their pottery and porcelains. The booths and bazaar connected with Fair Japan exhibit all the products of the various factories in Japan and the prices are as low as can be found anywhere. The Japanese laborer gets about two cents a day for expert service, materials are cheap and living expense low, add to this duty for importation, Exposition commission and yet American manufacturers cannot compete. The Japanese workman can make anything he has ever seen. His ingenuity is astonishing. Give him a most complicated mechanism, a watch or an electrical apparatus and he will reproduce it exactly and set it running without instruction. Give a Japanese tailor a pair of old trousers, tell him you want a pair like them, and he will give you what you asked for with all the patches and darns if there happens to be any. A great deal of the American pottery has been sent abroad andthe Japanese are turning out a great quantity of dinner sets, cups and saucers of strictly American design. The Japanese decorations are much to be preferred, all styles are seen in Fair Japan.