Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 January 1898 — Page 6

TEE JAPANESE HOME

CHARACTERISTICS OF HOUSEKEEPING IN THE ANTIPODES.

The Maximnm of Result with the Minimum of Expense—The Fesky Motqnito. Japanese Bleats The Family Wash.

Making and Serving Tea. [Copyright, 1898, by the Author.]

The little pigeontoed Japanese home mother conducts her household affairs with the least possible outlay of capital. 8he, of all women, knows how to obtain a maximum result with a minimum expenditure of material. This peculiarity is a striking characteristic of the race. A handful of fuel or a few

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ounces of food is of far more account in the orient than hours of what we are pleased to call precious time. Consequently the economy of that portion of the earth's globe differs very materially from ours.

Fuel and certain food supplies have been scarce and dear at times, and the Japanese cook has learned that these commodities must be made to go as far as possible without considering time &nd labor, which have up to the present been the cheapest things in the island empire.

Of furniture suoh as Europeans use the Japanese have no need. They lay their feet under their bodies and make a chair of their heels. They place a thinly wadded circular cushion about t^iree feet in diameter on the white matted floor and by a dexterous movement $f the feet they squat plumply in the middle of it. These cushions are covered with cotton, grasscloth or silk, according to the wealth of the family.

The Japanese sleep on heavy wadded comforts called futons. These are laid QQ the floor of the coolest room in summer and the warmest in winter. They use no sheets, simply covering themselves with more futons as the weather grows oolder. In the depth of winter they put on over their other clothing a huge kimono, thickly wadded, having velvet collar and cuffs.

Mosquitoes are so troublesome in sumjner that all must sleep under a net. In the homes of the poorer class there often is but one, which is hung from the^our corners of the room. Under this the whole family

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fervants as well. In the morning they literally oboy the injunction to take up their beds and walk. The fntons are ^jlded and laid away in one of the many closets behind the sliding screens.

The pillow of the orient is oddly jgmiugh a neck rest instead of a head ^e6t. That of Japan is an oblong wooden box, cushioned with a few sheets cf qoft paper. There aro small drawers underneath where combs, brushes and other necessary toilet articles are kept. There are variations of this form of pillow, mado of bamboo, with basketwork ends, or of porcelain and coarse day.

Japanese meals are in truth and verity "movable feasts." The universal custom is to use individual tables as well as dishes, each person being served quite separately from the others. No matter how many servants are kept the wife as a rylo waits upon her husband and does not begin her meal until he has finished his.

The tables are low, broad stools with more or less elaborately carved legs. Those most commonly seen .are round lacquered trays, with feet, called osteu. Upon these aro set all tne courses in turn, save the saki bottle and rice bowl. The Wine is handed round at the beginning of the meal, but the rice is reserved for the last course. It is placed on tho floor in the midst of the company, and each person helps himself as he desires.

Saki, which is a fermented liquor made of rice, is drunk warm and tastes like flat sherry. The saki bottles and

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cups are always the most ornamental of the household china. It is the office of the daughter of the house to serve the saki wid to see that her father's cup is sever empty.

Fish is the chief article of diet in Japan. Some of them are eaten not only raw, bat alive, which simplifies the preparations for dinner very materially Other fish are often served cold, and many of their vegetables are prepared and pickled to last for several days.

Bread they know not, or rather not until the advent of European bakers. They make the best sponge cake in the world, having learned the art from the 'Dutch, who were the first foreigners in their country.

The article which answers for a stove it a hibachi, or braxier. It is a portable apparatus consisting of a round bran,

bronze or iron bowl or a wooden box lined with fire proof clay along the margin, half filled with wood ashes, with a few glowing embers in the center. A round clay or iron ring with three legs is placed over the coals and the kettle or saucepan set on this. Small ntensils and few of them, but the mar vel is how they manage to accomplish so much with such primitive methods.

The family washing is a simple affair. The kimonos are as a rule ripped apart, the long breadths washed in cold water, stretched on boards, which are set up in the sun, to dry. Kimonos are made of 13 inch wide goods woven for the purpose. They are sewed together with coarse darning cotton and long basting stitches, so that ripping a garment to pieces and putting it together again is/hot the labor it would seem. Most of the native cottons have a rough surface, ro that when dry they really need no ironing, particularly if they have been properly stretched and fastened to the boards.

LAURA B. STASH.

DECORATIVE HINTS.

How to Daintily and Inexpensively Furnish a Bedroom.

Many charming new designs in wall papers, curtains and carpets, as well as many novel ideas in decoration, have been brought out this season to aid the housewife in making her home bright and attractive. The new wall papers are especially artistio, both in coloring and design. Probably the prettiest is the flower series for bedrooms, showing roses, violets, daisies, chrysanthemums, cornflowers, poppies and fruit blooms in conventional and realistic treatment For drapery there are chintzes and cretonnes matching the papers. »They cost but little more than silkoline and are more satisfactory, as they do not get stringy or hold the dust as thin, loose meshed fabrics. Then, too, they can bo kept fresh and crisp, as they launder perfectly.

A dainty and inexpensive bedroom just finished is a good example of what may be accomplished with simple materials. This room has a cold northern light, so warm, clear yellow and forest green were chosen to brighten it up. A good quality of wall paper was bought, as the most pleasing effects of decoration are marred if the paper is crude in design. This paper is cream, with faint greenish silver stripes, the space between them powdered with tiny bunches of yellow daisies. Green ribbons and small wreaths of daisies repeat the oolors in the frieze, while the ceiling has single daisies scattered over it. Two straight back wooden settles and a table were added to the light oak set. The furniture and woodwork were given

CLOSET BOOKCASE.

three coats of forest green varnish stain, which comes ready prepared for use. The door was taken off the closet and shelves put in to hold booka As the floor was too old to look well stained it was covered entirely with deep yellow matting. Then the room was ready for the finishing touches.

The decorative effects are principally obtained by the judicious use of color, the clear yellow and green making the room bright and cheerful with a sense of space. The few pieces of bric-a-brac possess the merit of being interesting by virtue of their good color and form. A narrow three panel mirror hangs over the mantelshelf, which is adorned with bits of glittering green pottery and a pair of brass candlesticks. The fireplace is tiled and has an open grate, and before it the settles, well cushioned, are placed. On a bracket over the closet bookcase a ginger jar of golden rod and cattails, a Hue fan and a brass platter are effectively grouped. A bunch of chestnut burs, two small plaster masks and a chianti bottle of peacock feathers break the straight lines of the closest frame. The toilet china is sprinkled with bunches of yellow daisies tied with green ribbons, and the same design ornaments the trays on the dressing table. Long curtains of cretonne, lined with green silesia, hang from poles at the windows. The bed has a ruffled spread and a canopy of cretonne, and cretonne is used to drape the dressing case and divan

Brown photographs of favorite pictures, framed in green wood, hang on the walls. The floor rug has a mottled pattern in green and yellow, with a touch of blue. It was made by sewing lengths of ingrain carpet together and fringing out the ends. Coarse yellow fish net is used for sash curtains.

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THE NEW WOMAN.

Her Capacity For Organizing: and Managing Important Business Enterprises.

It is one of my cardinal doctrines that women are especially endowed with the organizing and executive talent. They are quick to observe, and unless they have been brought up ignorant as babes of how "money is earned they are careful in its expenditure. They have natu ral heads for economic science, where they have turned their attention in that direction. If any woman, no matter who she is, sets her head that she is going to become well off, nothing or nobody can stop her from it but herself. She has only to keep working and watching for opportunity in the direction in which she set out and she will arrive at her goal. But women usually let their sentimental emotions, which they mistake for their affections, swerve them aside from the way in which they have started. They become discouraged easily, too, and lazily conclude a woman cannot do this or that, when only the grit and backbone are lacking in themselves. Hetty Green, with her $60,000,000, has shown she can head off and beat at their own game the shrewd est so called financiers in America. See the work Estelle Reel, state school su perintendent, has done in Wyoming. Her first task on taking office was to thoroughly acquaint herself with all its duties and resources. The state school lands at that time were bringing only $17,000 a year to the publio fund. Miss Beel addressed herself seriously to leas ing these lands. Her plan was to fix the rentals so moderate that rangemen would be justified in accepting her terms and putting thousands of sheep and cattle upon the unused territory. She has been so successful with the scheme that now Wyoming draws $50,000 a year from the school lands, a sum large enough to pay 20 per cent of the whole annual publio expenses of the state. The Engineering and Mining Journal, one of the most influential, reliable and respected periodicals of its kind in America or the world, owes its success more to its enthusiastic and talented business manager, Mrs. Sophia Braeunlich, than any one else. Day after day, year after year, she is at her post directing the money affairs of the paper. She has brought its finances from a confused, doubtful state to a point where it pays handsomely, and her comrades generously acknowledge her services.

Instead of being content to work for somebody else -all their lives at a low salary women should qualify themselves carefully for a chosen occupation and then go into business for themselves more generally than they do.

Let tfs hope the report that there is to be an attempt to repeal the school suffrage law for women in Ohio is a mistake. Can there be in the state where noble mothers have given to the world so many great men one single masculine creature base enough and piggish enough to want to deprive Ohio mothers of their right to help choose those who control the education of their children? G*eat heavens! For the honor of my native state I hope not—I hope not.

Man is so conceited that recently one of the sex came out in a newspaper letter and said that women were not capable of making pie crust, that only the mighty brain and arm of man were equal to the great achievement. But we can't all be cooks.

Women have not much self control perhaps, but still they can keep from smoking lonp enough to get away where they will not puff the effluvia of their throat and nostrils, disease microbes and all, into the faces of people who don't like it.

TEBKB HAUTE SATURDAY EVEN IN & MAIL, JANUARY 22, 1898.

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During one of the cool headed, calm and logical arguments in the Austrian reichsrath recently one member was stabbed in the hand, another had his collar bone broken, a third got a scalp wound, while above all the uproar the voice of a fourth cool headed logician

was heard declaring that he would bring his revolver to the next meeting. But women cannot be trusted to take part iL politics. They are too dangerously emotional. Oh, ye gods!

"Tears are good for women," writes some old dunderhead of a doctor. "A good cry helps their nerves." Tbis stuff makes me tired. If tears are good fo* women, they are equally good for men, for their flesh and blood and nerves are constructed the same. Think of President McKinley falling upon a sofa and having "a good cry" when his cabinet does not act to suit himl fo'

In Alabama there is a young lady too tender and fragile in her nerves to live in this wicked world. She ought really to be brought up in an incubator and nourished through a tube. She held the place of schoolteacher—held it, not filled it. A bold, bad boy, a horrible, fierce and cruel giant 11 years old, laid a demoniacal plot to either murder her or dethrone her reason, the dreadful monster did not seem to care which. He took a mouse, a fierce, bloodthirsty and awful mouse, and laid it on her desk. The mouse was plainly dead, or it would not have lain still, but that dreadful boy perhaps thought it would rise like the Hamlet ghost. He intended that it should eat the teacher. But she foiled his wicked plot. She gave one blood curdling, hair lifting yell and fled as though the fiends of perdition wore after her. She ran to the police, and as

n,i soon as she could recover from hernerv-

Grate half a pound of chocolate and eras prostration she entered formal comheat it slightly in the oven, add a quar- plaint against the monstrous boy. The did ter of a pound of butter, two ounces of gallant police arrested the monstrous

sugar and half a pint of cream. Mix all these ingredients together and add a few drops of essence of vanilla. Boil the I charge of the .Lord knows what. He caramel slowly till it cracks if dropped ooold not furnish bail, and so went to into cold water. Then pour on to well 3^*1 hi® awful crime. Thus was jusoiled tins to the thickness required, tice done Thus were the nerv"?* of the When nearly cold, form the mixture in- feminine sex vindicated

boy. The still more gallant grand jurj held him in |200 bail to answer to the

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RMT»A AHCHARII

The Dread of Death.

It may seem at first sight as if this universal dread of death in healthy and nbrmal human beings living under nor mal conditions involved a certain divine cruelty. Why should men be tortured by the dread of death, since death is inevitable? Could not God have spared us that intolerable and purposeless agony? That is a not unnatural questioning of thG rebellious spirit. Yet a little reflec tion will show that it is a very absurd criticism of the ways of God toward man. Granted that it is the will of God that we shall remain on earth and live our apipointed lives there, it is essential that mankind should feel the dread of death. Without that dread the world could hardly remain peopled.

The dread of death is to the soul what the law of gravity is to the body. It anchors us to the earth. Without that dread to weigh us down and keep us to the globe, half mankind would be driven by curiosity, by the love of change, by the dread of ennui, by v^hat Bacon calls "niceness and satiety," to push open the olosed door and see \^hat is beyond. Children and a few very happy and easily pleased people might perhaps say they would not explore further and that they were perfectly content with things as they are.—London Spectator.

Not Worth a Rap.

Dean Swift, in his "Drapier's Letters," employs the expression in several places of rap, applied to base brass and copper coins. Thus, in his first letter, speaking of the scarcity of halfpence and farthings, he states, "Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps" (see volume 4, page 66, Falkner's edition, 1735). He also mentions raps more than once in his third letter. The rap was well known in Dublin previous to the universal circulation of her majesty's present bronze coinage.—Notes and Queries.

Mrs. Kipling.

"I meta woman the other day," says a writer in the Chicago News, "who hag met Rudyard Kipling. Not only has she met him, but she has broken bread with him, and she has heard him talk. I asked her what impressed her most about him. Think of the man who wrote 'The Gadsbys' and 'The Seven Seas' and 'Soldiers Three 1' She said she was most deeply impressed by the fact that Mrs. Kipling calls him 'Ruddy, dear.'"

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