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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-06

The Seventh Ward has distributed dry
goods, groceries and shoes, including the
following articles, l20 lbs. -four; 3 sacks
-four, l sack of salt, Is quarts beans, l
quart syrup, 2t pecks potatoes, "a lbs.
sugar, 22t lbs. bacon, 9 lbs, corn meal, /!
lbs. tea, ? quarts hominy, . blankets, II
pairs shoes. No account has been kept in
this ward of any worn clothing dis
tributed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25

Yum Yum's hair is jet-black. A red
headed Japanese girl is unknown, and
so far, l have not seen white horse in
the Empire. This hair Is more care
fully cared for than the many colored
locks of the American girl, and it takes
a professional hair dresser to put it up
in its wonderful shape of waterfall and
coils. She has combs of a dozen kinds,
and she uses hair oil profusely. Her
oil is made of the seeds of the camelia
and the tea shrub, and her hair is SO
long that it often reaches to her heels.
When put up it is so stiff that it stays
in place, and she expects one good hair
dressing to last for several days. This
she is able to do by being careful in the
day time, and by the use of Japanese
pillow at night. The japanese pillow
is neither more nor less than a thin
block Of wood about two inches wide
at the top and about four inches high
On the top of it is a wad of paper to
make j. soft, and Yum Yum can fit this
under her neck, and sleep away without
having her head touching the bed. She
sleeps, you know, on the floor, and all
of our poetry about dainty limbs touch
ing the snow white sheets would not
hold good here. Yum Yum does not
use sheets, and her pillow neither needs
pillow-case at night nor pillow sham in
the day time. Her nght-dress is
heavy wooden and we'll padded wrap
per, and she lies with one thick padded
comforter under her, and another of
the same size and thickness on top. A
paper lantern stands beside her resting
place on the floor, and she may have
her box of charcoal and her pipe within
essy reach,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25

IHAvE not used all of one bottle yet
l have suffered from catarrh for twelve
years, experiencing the nauseating
dropping in the throat peculiar to that
disease, and nose bleed almost daily.
tried various remedies without benefit
until last April, when 1 saw Ely s
Cream Balm advertised in the Boston
budget. l procured bottle, and since
the first days use have had no more
bleeding-the soreness is entirely gone.
D. 6. Davidson, with the Boston Budget,
formerly with Boston Journal. s
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25

As an infant, Yum Yum dresses like
her mother, and the girls of Japan
spend less upon clothes than do their
American sisters. Spring bonnets,
they never get, for all womanhood here
goes bare-headed. Skirts they do not
use, and the long stockings and the
hlgh-heeled shoe never clasp their toes
and calves. The Japanese girl wears
No gloves, and she never loses her shoe
buttoner. Her shapely little feet clat-
ter over the streets in wooden sandals
two inches ugh, and she holds these
on by white cord which, tied to the
wood between her first two toes, crosses
the foot and is fastened to the sandal at
the heel. In place of stockings she has
foot mittens, an these have finger"
for her great toe, and they do not come
higher than her ankle at the leg.
Above this comes her dress, and if the
weather be wet, she will think nothing
of pulling it up to her knees and wab-
bling along with her bare calves show
ing at the back.
This dress, however, is a curiosity.
It has no pins nor hooks and eyes to
keen it together, and as for buttons,
thew are a foreign invention. 1t con-
sists of long robe made of silk crepe
or cotton, and this is open at the front
like q long Jacket. When worn, one
side of it folds over the other at the
front. and it is held in place by wide
heIt or obi. This belt is the finest part
of yum Yum's toilet, and it forms her
cirdle and bussel all in one. 1t is four
yards long, and its material is as rich
as her circumstances will warrant.
sometimes it is made of magnificent
stiff fabrics and loaded with embroid-
erv. 1t is tied in big butterfly bow at
the back, and though not pin is used
If keeps its place and holds the dress
nerfectly. Yum Yum, however, does
NOT want her dress spread out IKE the
tail of the peacock. She runs rather
tn the puIl-back, and the loose folds OF
the nnstarched stuffs which rap them
selves about the form showing It's every
omtIine. They impede the walking of
the ladies, and the result is that the
Tsnanese girl totters along in half
niaeon-toed fashion. and when she tries
N nm she goes off in gait Ike COW.
The dress in the summer is open at the
neck and Yum Yum does not know
what a breastpin is. Ny wife made
ei-I ia the country, who had done her q
favor a present of one. and pinned II
ct her NECK. The girl was delighted
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25

to my head as I sunk into the liquid
fire, and for time gasped for breath.
I came out as red as boiled lobster,
and an hour later, going past the same
bath room, saw whole be7y OF girls
enjoying themselves in and around it,
They did not move to shut the door as
l went by, and, like all Japanese girls,
were not in the least ashamed. such
things are after all matter OF custom.
These Japanese with all of such
actions are the most modest women L
have ever seen, and bold faces are
fewer here than in any country L have
ever visited. At some of the hot
springs ] saw both sexes, young and
old. bathing together, and this promis-
cuous bathing was, until a few years
ago, common even in the public bath
houses of the large cities. Now there
are still public. baths, but the women
battle on one side of the fence about
three feet high, while the men have
their bathing quarters on the other
side. The two baths are in the same
room, and are, of course, under cover.
I saw yesterday here at Kiota, a
picture which brought back forcibly the
words of the opera of the Mikado. 1t
was the three little girls at school,
Three little maids from school are we,
Pert as school girls well can be,
Filled TO the brim with girlish glee,
Three little maids from school.
1t was through the open walls of a
well kept house. The girls were look
ing over two books together, and their
merry laughter came ringing out on
the streets as passed. A tea tray sat
beside them, and they sat Japan like
or their heels. They were, in short,
Yum Yum, Peep-b boo and Pitti-sing al
home, and they had the advantage of
their American counterparts in that
their acting was perfectly natural
They were working at their lessons,
doubt not, and the better class of Jap
anese women are by no means unedu-
Gated. They receive, l am told b5t-
ter training than the women of any
other Oriental nation, and they are
better treated than those of any other
Asiatic nation. The Japanese girl can,
as a rule, read and write Japanese
She learns all about household matters,
and she takes the whole charge of the
household This is her sphere, and she
is known as the honorable mistress of
the household. Her husband has no
right to be meddlIng with the cooking
stove. She pays the servant and the
market bills. In the case of the poorer
merchants, she often acts as one of the
clerks in the stores, and takes the place
of the husband when he is not present.
In the country, you will find her often
working IN the fields, and at Nikko [
saw a great number of women who
acted as the leaders of pack horses
carrying copper and goods up and down
the mountains. Still, l think the
women here have an easier time than
those o. the lower classes of Germany
or Holland. and you see fewer labor
hardened faces among the other sex
here than you do in many of the conn
tries Of Europe.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25

In connection with this comes the
subject of licensed prostitution and the
selling of girls by their parents to a
life of shame, which has made Japan
notorious the Christian world over.
The subject, however, is too large a one
to be dealt with in a paragraph, suffice
it to say that the evil, though modified
by foreign Influences, still exists to an
alarming degree, aad the japanese girl
filial duty to obey her parents in case
they made such a contract, and that
instances of virtuous girls going into
houses of ill-fame TO make money to
support their fathers, make up many
of the most admired of heroic stories
of Japanese literature. Such thing in
japan is not respectable, but it is not
dishonorable, and thu instances of girls
leaving such service and becoming the
wives Of res pectable men and of moving
in good society of Japan are by no
means uncommon.
With the fallen Yum Yum, however,
1 have nothing to do in this letter.
After she is married, she is, as rule, a
good and virtuous wife, and if my eyes
are worth anything, think, with all of
the customs against her, she manages
to rule her husband here as she does
the world over. The evils of the Jap-
anese social system may speak of here
after. There are undoubtedly many
still. The picture has. [ believe. been
overdrawn, and the statement that
there are no virtuous women in the
land of the Mikado, is about as true as
that all Americans che v tobacco, and
that their chief amusement is in spit
ting on the carpet.
FRANK 6. CARPENTER
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25
And does Yum Yum smoke g?

Yes, indeed, she does and she gener-
ally smokes pipe. She likes the weed
as we'll as her husband, and, like him,
she uses the little metal pipe of the
country. she uses it gracefully, too,
and she always hands you charcoal
box to light your pipe if you stop at a
tea house or make call.
The Japanese Yum Yum is very
cleaniy about her person, She takes a
red hot bath every day, and she does
not object to company being present
at the ceremony. The whole family
battles, in the interior districts, in the
same bath tub, taking turns, and Yum
Yum, if she be not the favored daugh-
ter, usually gets in on the home
stretch. The master of The house has
the first bath, then the mistress, then
the children in the order of their ages,
and then the servants. No soap is used
in the tub, but The water is not chang
ed. Cold baths are never taken. except
for penRnce or as a matter of q VOW.
and the bath tub is made so that q fire
of charcoal can be built under it. and |
can saw, to my sorrow, that it feels to
the stranger hotter than boiling lead.
Upon my first introduction to it, | was
attended by a maiden who persisted in
helninp me undress, = nd who was not
satisfied until she saw me Jump into
the steaming water. Ny blood rushed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25

sion, and a husband has the right to
bring concubine into the house if he
will The result of this is that concu-
binage prevails here to large extent,
and the men of japan have low moral
standard in regard to women. The
husband has almost absolute control
over his wife by the law of divorce, and
he can get rid of her if he will on SEVEN
different grounds.
If his wife has reached the age Ct
so and is childless, he can divorce her.
Ii she talks too much, the law allows
him to send her away: if she is guilty
of theft. If she is addicted to jealousy
or if she is disoDedlent to her parents
in-law, she is liable to divorce, and if
she commits adultry she is, of course,
divorced. With such cost oms, it is no
wonder that the number Of divorces IN
Japan is larger than those of Indiana
in its palmiest days OF liberal divorce
suits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25

She has, says this book, no right to
show jealousy, and if her husband is
guilty of improprieties, she should
gently reprove him. She should go no
place without her husbands permits
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25

The Yum Yum Oh japan thus leads q
much less eventfuI life than the young
girl of America. She thinks she has
fun because she knows no better. and
her chief employment, if she be one of
the poorer classes, is the totting of her
baby brother and sister upon her back.
1t is thus that her mother took care of
her, and the cradle for all the little
Japanese babies is the human back.
Almost as soon as the baby is born, it
is tied to the back of the children next
in age, and the moment the mother
begins to expect the advent of a second
BABY, she trains her little daughter in
preparation for it. At first little doll
is placed on the baby's back, then a
heavier one is substituted, and thus the
weight is increased until it approaches
that of a baby. l saw, last week, a
3.year-old child carrying a dog straI I'd
on its back in this way, and as the BABY
staggered along with it, it met child
of the same age who had baby tied
on it's back, and the two sat down on
their little heels and played together in
the mud. The babies did not seem to
mind it in the least, and the infant Yum
Yums here cry less than do our little
American babies.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25
YUM YUM AT HOME.
Pictures in Pen and Pencil of
the Giddy Girls Of Japan.
THE OPERA OF THE MIKADO.
How Yum Yum Dresses and How She
Flirts-Japanese Marriages and
the Duties of a Japanese wife.

KIoTA, JAPAN, October 81, 1885,
Special Correspondence of The
HERALD. From this old capital of
Japan where the sun shines over palace
and cottage, where many of the noble
men and the most beautiful maidens
of the Mikados realm live, l sing the
song of Yum Yum. The giddy girls of
CAV Japan are ell about me. Their
houses are open, and their almond eyes
twinkle welcome as 1 pass along the
streets. There is no Pooh Bah with his
dozen different offices to clog my foot
steps, and 1 can give you some pictures
of Yum Yum at home. She is as pretty
here as she ever appeared on the Ameri-
can stage. like her rich cream colored
complexion. have fallen in love with
her jet-black eyes which, though they
shine through lids not half as wide
apart as those of Mrs. Lsngtry or Of
Mrs. James Potter-BroTn, are quite as
full of soul, and quite as beautiful. l
like the flowing drapery of her cos
tune, and 1 have become accustomed
TO the absence of the corset and to the
decollette display of the bust. 1 ad-
mire her modern taste in colors, and
the soft grsys and blues of her dress
seem to harmonic with her surround
iags. The paint on her lower lip l can
even approve of, and the structure of
her oily jet-black hair fills my soul with
wonder.
The Yum Yum of Japan, however, is
different from the American beauty
who tried to represent the japanese
heroine under that name in the play of
the Mikado. One of the troupes
brought the play to this country, and it
was sung, l think, at Toxic. II was
the laughing stock of the Mikado
capital, and there were a thousand and
one things in it which have no part with
the social customs of this country
The belle of Japan, for instance, never
knows the rapture OF q lovers first
kiss. Kissing is not done in the En-
pire of the real Mikado, and such q
thing as the shaking of hands is I'M
common. The marriage and counting
customs are entirely different from ours.
Yum Yum can furnish no garden gate
for her lovers to hang over, and she
never knows the pleasure of moonlight
drives. She has no gate in the nrst
place, md no lover in the second Her
family, if she be of high birth, ar
ranges the marriage with the family of
the groom, and the counting, if there is
any, is done after the wedding.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-29
Are There Other HabitabIe worlds


Here, again. we have only conjecture
to guide us. With respect to the bodies
constituting the solar system, which
from their comparative proximity to the
earth might be supposed to furnish so
luton to this problem, careful obserya-
tons have heretofore offered no indIca-
ton whatever of the existence OF life
upon their surfaces. But life in some
form or another may Notwithstanding
exist on those bodies. We must bear III
mind that the planets are IN all proba-
billty in various stages of develop
ment. 1t may be reasonably presumed
that the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
and Neptune. in consequence OF their
enormous bulk, have cooled down more
slowly than the earth and the other
smaller planets of the solar system, and
are therefore less advanced as abodes OF
animated existence than the latter are.
But even in the case of the earth 1t must
be admitted to have revolved millions
of wears round the sun merely as
fiery orb before life appeared
on its surface. and even after 1t
had cooled down and become the
abode of animated existence it produced,
during countless millions OF years more,
life only in its lowest forms. The ex-
istence of man is but of yesterday.
This is an instructive lesson. 1t teaches
us that although man exists on the
earth's surface it does not follow that
beings OF the same order OF intelligence
as man exists upon all the other planets
or even upon any of them. Upon some
of the planets life may not have yet
come into existence upon others
life may exist, but in less adj
vanced stage than upon the earth and
the same remark is obviously appllca-
be to the numberless bodies OF the starry
armament. The state of the question
then is this We cannot pronounce posi-
lively upon the existence of life any
where beyond the planet upon which We
dwell. But reasoning from analogy, We
NAV suppose that certain, il not all, Of
the other bodies of the planetary system,
which in so many respects bear strong
affinity to our Cwn planet, are
in like manner the abodes of
life in some form or another,
and that similarly there are count
less bodies in the stellar regions. which
may also be the sbodes Of life. This is
question, however, upon which the no
BILE science of astronomy, so distln-
guished for the exactitude of its conclu-
sions. does not venture to pronounce q
positive opinion, seeing that there exists
no sure basis of facts available for its con-
sideration. In these circumstances it is
left for each individual inquirer to form
his own opinion Independently of any
support derived from scientific autho-
rity.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-29
Henry County Notes.

fCorrsspondence OF the Richmond Dspatch.l
MARTIYsvILLE, VA, January %, 1888.
The weather has been very inclement
for several days, but Notwithstanding this
the farmers find some means OF marketing
their tobacco, and for the first time in
wears they express themselves entirely
satisfied with the prices. 1t is claimed
by leaf.tobacco buyers that the weed is
bringing more than it has for ten years.
Our manufacturers are rapidly disposing
OF their stock. A well-knOwn tobacco
manufacturer told me to-day that his firm
had sold more tobacco this month than
for any time since they have been in
business.
Colonel Derrick and his assistants are
rapidly completing the survey OF the
Roanoke and Southern railroad. They
are now within two miles of our
town, and our people are very sanguine
over the outlook. Quite a number OF
new enterprises are being set on foot. |
am told that it is now settled fact that
we are to have electric lights. This will
be an invaluable improvement. as the
present system OF lighting the town by
kerosene is nuisance.
Monroe Hobson, who was shot recently
by James Gilly, is much better, and he
is now considered out of danger.
Our superintendent Of schools is hold
ing teachers institute this week, which
is largely attended and much interest
manifested.
Mrs. Judge A. NJ. Lybrook, OF Stuart,
Va, is dangerously i'll. CoLFAx.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-29

occupied by the Senator from Florida
(Mr. Jones', the Senator from Arkansas
(Mr. Garlsnd), and the Senator from Ala
bama (Mr. Pugh), nor will recite the
imposing authorities arrayed by the SEN
ator from Georgia (Mr. Brown. / have
no doubt about the constitutional au-
thority OF Congress to pass this measure.
Indeed, il we should reject it on the
ground that it is unconstitutional for
Congress to give aid to the States in the
exercise OF their exclusive jurisdiction
over the education OF their people, We
would be reversing the settled policy OF
this Government.
1.-The refinements and subtleties about
the distinction between the granting OF
land and an appropriation Of money for
educational purposes do not satisfy my
mind. Even il such distinction would
hold it does not apply to the constitu-
tional question that is made. 1t is not
the kind of aid granted, whether it be
10 land or in money, but the purpose for
which it is granted, that is to be con-
sidered. 1t is the threatened interven-
ton of the Federal Government into the
educational affairs of a State to which
the constitutional objection applies, and
intervention is as menacing when it
comes in the form OF a land grant as
when it comes in the shape OF an appro-
priation. do not regard it as menace
in either case.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-29
Tho POliee.COurf Bill.
he Editor of the DisDntch :

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
The last popular vote cast in the city
OF Richmond must convince all good
Democrats that our party may no longer
rely upon those sweeping maIorltIes that
formerly gladdened the hearts of our
people. George d. Wise carried this
city but little while ago by the hand
some majority OF 2.700; the last election
here-which was holly contested by both
political parties showed a reduction OF
the old-time majority of nearly 1000
Everybody knows why the Democratic
strength was impaired.
Every question calculated to disturb
the harmony of our party and to bring
abont reduction Of our vote should be
voted down by a Democratic Legislature.
The Curtis bill will prove to be a dis
turbing element in our city politics.
Notwithstanding the respectable backing
of MIR. Curtis he will fiud to his cost, and
it may be to the discontinue Of his par
ty, that responsibility don't always carry
elections.
The people of Richmond are not ask
ing for change in the mode of electlng
their Police Justice. If they were, feel
sure they wonld ask to have him elected
directly by themselves
Ii should be borne in mind that this
officer deals directly with our city people
and should be held accountable to them
alone. He is nOW answerable for his acts
to the City Council, who are elected di-
rectly by the citizens. If he should be-
come odiOus to his constituents they
non have the power to remove him.
But in case the Curtis bill becomes a
law this officer, however odious, may not
be touched by them. He will owe his
office to the State and may play Judge
Bond at bis own sweet will and pleasure.
Besides, precedent begets precedent If
the State shall elect Police Justice why
not elect the whole caboodle-Mayor,
Council, Magistrate, &C., &c.
Democrats, beware
Ask the people of Richmond-the
whole people of Richmond-if they
approve of this change before you vote
for the passage Of the bill.
OLD DEMOCRAT.