Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1916 — Cheap Japanese Prints. [ARTICLE]

Cheap Japanese Prints.

If you cannot *afford expensive pictures, do not therefore put up with ugly ones. There are lovely prints that can be bought for a song, and If you do not wish to spend money on framing them, by all means mount them on gray, brown or black mats and tack them unframed on the wall. Japanese prints can be bought. In a size a little bigger than postcards, for 10 cents each. There are many lovely designs. One, In black, gray-browns and yellow, is a rainy scene at night. A Japanese woman with a servant, bearing a lantern, is silhouetted against a background of lighted houses, moving rickshas and other pedestrians. Everybody carries a flat Japanese parasol, and long slanting lines of rain cut across the whole print. Others of these 10-cent prints show water scenes, garden scenes and Japanese children and babies in charming attitudes of play.