Clayton herald. (Clayton, Del.) 1867-1870, 1869-07-03

this worm. 1t is fine and very elastic.
Its natural color is a pleasant gray /;
and of all silk it is the most retentive of
its color. The cunning of the learned
men of Japan has been exhausted with
out finding color that Will stand
against the first application of water.
This tine variety of silk can only be used
at present where its natural color is Dc-
ceptable. No doubt mordants will be
found which will fix artificial cOlors,
and then 0ak-leaf silk, because of the
healthy worms and the elasticity of the
cloth, will come into general use. The
taste of Japan runs largely on fish. The
artificial culture OF fish, so new to Christ
endom, has be practiced in Japan
from immemorial time. The very first
day these people laid out a lake for fish
culture on their new purchase, there be-
ing water and a well-adapted spot
among the undulations of the land
Fish grow to great size under protection
from devouring enemies. The carp at
tnins length of not unfrequently five
feet. OF all human food fish is the least
trouble to cultivate, and being always
fat and succulent in these enclosures,
the meat is exceptionally nutricious.-
To make such a lake hold water, the
Japanese form cheap and effective sc
ment by simple mixture of shell lime,
Japan resembles very closely our white
walnut tree. Its foliage is less, so much
so that it looks as if it were not thriv ng.
Tho varnish, like turpentine, eXudcs
from similar missions made in the bark
There is one near the fountain railing
in our city gardens. Rice will be one OF
the grains cultivated for home use by
the Japenese colony. All rice is not a
lowland product. There is fine varie-
ty known as hill rice, not inferior in nu-
triment nor in flavor. A French gen
| tleman writes thus "Unlike other
Eastern people, there is something about
the Japanese that is congenial to Euro
peans. Having spent some years in ia
pan, with opportunities. of official posi-
ton to observe the higher classes, we
pronounce them in no way our inferi-
ors. The men are dignified, we'll edu.
Gated, exceedingly polite, brave, and are
full of ingenuity. The women have re-
fined delicacy, very pretty FERNS and
features and very winning address
They are scrupulously neat in their per
sons and in their housekeeping. Theil
accomplishments are quite up to oui
standard. They are healthy, frugal, in
dustrious. and very atfectionate. II
any of the refined circles of the capital:
of Europe, we know IA hundred Japan
ese ladies that would command theil
own choice of husbands. Not only is il
their personal charms that would be adj
mired, but they would, in the eye o
matrimony, be endorsed by the absence
of the expensive habits that in all our OWL
bellies interpose so terrible an obstacle
to marriage"
Madame Schnell is a Japanese lady
evidently of that class that inspired tn,
eloquent description we have quoted
If the introduction of new branches o
culture and industry, and the utilization
of lands hitharto neglected as of iittli
value, be beneficial to California, w,
may welcome this first colony from ia
pan. They interfere with no existing
occupations. They are not an interio
race. They are unlike other Asiatics il
many important respects. They at one,
adopt our costumes, and they com,
with their families to make permanen
homes and Investments. Their earn
ings will be invested here and no
abroad. There is nothing repellant, bu
much that is attractive and winning il
their bearing and their manner of ad
dress they have no bigotry; and if b,
Christian treatment we prove the excel
ience of our religion they are just sucl
? people as will be likely TO take kindl,
to our religious instruction.