Have you climbed the "holy stairs," which lead to the "way of the gods" in Fair Japan? If not, a highly amusing and mildly sensational experience is in store for you. The feat was attempted by a bevy of Bryn Mawr girls, who attended the Exposition on Railroad Day, and for a while the South Midway, in the vicinity of the Japanese Village, rang with screams and shrieks of laughter.

One young woman, more venturesome than the rest, undertook to make the ascent without holding on to the crooked rail that forms a sort of baluster on either side of the stairway. As she reached the top she turned to cast a smile of derision upon her less sprightly companions, when her feet shot from under her and she suddenly landed in a clump of prickly bushes on the opposite side of the stairs.

After a dozen or more of the college girls had failed in their attempts to scale the flight, four Japanese maidens, who had been looking on in great glee, gave an illustration of the ease and grace with which they nimbly trip up and down the narrow cleats on their way to the shrine of the Shinto, which is hidden among the shrubbery on the other side of the pretty stream that divides the two sections of the village.

The inhabitants of Fair Japan immensely enjoyed the pranks of the facetious Bryn Mawr girls. In the pretty little theater a special performance was given in their honor, and during the hour and a half which they spent at the place the programme played by the ladies' orchestra was wholly made up of selections chosen by them...