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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-04
All through the meal the dainty Japanese

AL through the meal the dainty Japanese
serving girl sits close at hand to be of service
if she is needed She has with her rice bowl
from which to replenish the supply of rice in
the little lacquer bowl on the table, If the
guest passes his bowl to be replenished the girl
always takes two dips at the rice with her fat
lad!e. even II the guest is satisfied with but one
ladleful The second dip in such case is a cere-
monial dip and only few grains Of rice may be
taken. but the custom of making two dips has
been firmly established for ages. and anything
less would be grave violation of table eti-
quette and hospitality. If the guest orders
saki for his dinner little saki set is brought,
comprising two small bottles and cups holding
about y ounces each.
The japanese kitchen is an exceedingly prim-
tive affair. The cooking stove or range is
SIMPLY a furnace made of plaster, with three
separate compartments, in which fires are made
with sticks of wood. Over each compartment
y place for setting kettle pot. This
stove has no draft or chimney. The smoke
comes out of the opening in front and fills the
kitchen. When the cook wants the fire to burn
faster she blows on it through hollow reed
or BAN boo, or else fans it with q little fan
made for the purpose. At one end of the range
Is the pot in which rice is boiled. 1t has
wooden top, with heavy blocks of wood for
h andes. On top of this pot is a flat wooden
ladle. used i'll dishing the rice. The rice is
boiled so that its grains keep their
shape 1t is never made into musb.
In the vessel placed in the center
and at the end next to this. or at the left hand
of the stove. is kettle Tor hot water. with the
wooden dipper used in serving it out. On the
wall and shelves near by are the knives used
III chOpping meats. graters for grinding up
radishes and other vegetables. sleeves. and diff
ferent culinary utensils A basin with n long
wooden stick is used in preparing the misc. or
bean SOUP. The misc is mixed with hot water
in the basin and stirred with the stick. This
forms the soup stock. The japanese water
bucket has handle made by inserting q cross
piece between two of the slaves which are pro-
ionged above the Others. A wooden dipper
with long handle is used in taking the water
from the bucket.
The japanese housekeeper does not use a
market basket, but instead has q box about 10
inches square. with bale or handle and Id.
In the exhibition case near the stove stands
safe" in which food is placed for safe keeping
from flies or other insects. 1t is dimnutive
affair with shelf inside and sides and door
covered with fine netting.
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provides a tobacco set, so the guest can
smoke he wishes. Dinner is then
served on the little table or tray On this tray
Will be several little covered vessels or dishes in
fact about ali that it will hold In front nearest
the guest. III the right-hand corner. is a lacquer
bowl filed with misc soup. At the left is a
porcelain bowl for rice. On the other side of
the tray Is a lacquer bowl in which soup. vege-
table stew or fish stew will ne served. Beside
this Is porcelain plate on which probably fish
viii be served either broiled or raw. In the
middle Is little cup for Soy or S4Oyu dark
colored sauce, like Worcestershire sauce i'm an
pearance. Salmon. trout and other kinds of
FISH are served raw frequently with little strips
OF radIsh: The diner takes up with his chop
sticks slice of fish and radsh and dips them
in the sauce before carrying them TO his mouth.
Toward the end of his meal he will remove the
top from his rice bowl and pass
it to the attendant. who will place on it usually
four slices of some kind of preserved or pick
led vegetable. This he will eat as n rel
ish with his rice. The odor is strong and OBJ
jectionable to foreigners, but one soon acquires
"a taste for it. and It becomes an Indispensable
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Saturday Smiles.

If you are ont in a driving storm. don't at
tempt to hold the rains.-Teras Settings.
BY and by comes the strawberry shortcake.
with one berry to a square yard of cake 1t
comes high, but we must have it.-HnTisb,ug
Telegraph.
How many men now living will be as famous
100 years hence as George Washington is to-
day? dozen? Half dozen? Three? Two?
One? And who are they?- Waterbury Repub-
iicdn.
A little girl in Pennsylvania died from Jump
ing the rope and several grown people in Okla
homa have died from jumping claims.-Haclt-
isS0n Kansas Ne,cs.
The ice men now have an organ called "72e
Ice Journal" 1t is a cold day when its gets
left.-Ne1c York Tribune.
man worth 1000 600 died in Chicago last
week, and up to date only one wife has come
forward with her claim to the property. The
incident Is looked upon as singular, to say the
least.-YOrk Dispatch.
Gen. Harrison is declared by the Washington
STAR to be an expert physiognomist. He has
mad big opportunities of studying check
Philadelphia Ledger.
He's Been Shook. "-Wickwire-" Queer.
isn't 1T, that when man is arrested for wife
beating the woman nearly ALWAYS tries to save
him from punishment? l tell you. Yabby, my
boy. no one knows the depth of womans love. "
fabsley Qately jilted)-"Nor the length of it. b"
Terra Raae cypress.
Wille's little sister Bessie was allowed an
''outing" with her mother one evening, but
Willie could not go, and was only reconciled at
last by the permission to sit up late" with
Aunt Hattie. As the evening wore on. how
ever, the little man grew drowsy, gaping every
few minutes. Auntie said by and by: Il ex-
pect Willie's sleepy" whereupon he straight
ened himself up very briskly and said, with
much emphasis: ''Oh, no, isn't auntie-only
my mouth, needs stwetching!''- Youths
Companion.
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'~RTnse Desn'

The Jap's writing desk, like the lady's toilet
set, seems to be made for very little people
The Jap does not sit in chair to write. but
kneels before his cabinet or squats on the
floor. The cabinet contains number of dainty
little drawers, in which are kept paper. INK
brushes and pencils On the top of the cabinet
Is tray for the ink. One little vessel contains
water in which the stick of India ink used in
writing is moistened The stick thus moist
ened is rubbed upon. pad from which it is
taken up on a finely pointed brush with which
the writing is done. Some of the paper comes
in rolls, and as the japanese writes his chafac-
tiers in vertical rows. he unrolls his paper and
keeps unrolling until he has written all he
wants to write, and, then. if it is a letter he
tears the paper written upon from the roll
folds 1t up and sends it away. Some paper
used by japanese women is made in fancy
styles with figures or flowers painted or printed
on it in colors.
When the guest in a japanese house gets up
in the morning he performs his additions with
cold water, by means of little tub-shaped
wooden basin set perhaps, outdoors where the
neighbors can take note of his doings He
viii have a towel given him so small that he
may lose it If he does not keep careful watch
on il
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table article with rice. The chopsticks are
usually OF wood and about ten inches long.
Incased in little paper sheath, they are
placed on the table or tray with the dinner
The cheaper and commoner chopsticks given
to guest at hotel are supposed to be used
only at one meal. They are merely cedar
sticks. Some of the chopsticks, however, are
lacquered. and when the guest has finished
eating with such a pair he wipes them on
napkin. Chopsticks like those, when used, are
left in the guests room, to be used by him
whenever he has a meal served. The chop
sticks are grasped both between the thumb and
index finger. The middle finger is thrust be-
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sometimes they set fire to the bedding and to
the house. 1t is a somewhat difficult thing to
get warm in Japanese house when one has
got thoroughly chilled. There are no stoves.
and no heating apparatus intended to warm a
whole house. Instead, the japanese has his
hiGachi, a kind of brazier made in different
FORMS In this there will be few Goals of
charcoal. 1t will be brought into the room and
one can put his hands close down TO the Goals
and get little warmth from them. A warmer
used in shops is an Oblong box. one end having
a compartment for ashes and charcoal. and the
other having a receptacle for a tea-set. By the
Goals in this box one will warm his hands or
light his pipe. When person gets real cold.
the only thing to do is to call for blankets and
a bed-warmer and sit. coddled up in the blank
cts. with his legs twined around the bed
warmer.
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They Would BE So Nice.

From Nunsey's Weekly.
The ladies of - church were packing box
of clothing to send to the wife of a western
missionary.
Mrs. A.-By dear Mrs. B, what can you be
thinking of to send off these lovely stockings
of yours? The very newest color, too!
Mrs. BIT does break my heart to part with
them, and shouldn't think of it if / hadn't Just
read something about the dive stuff they use to
get this particular shade being liable to poison
one frightfully.
Mrs. A.-Oh, horrors! Let's get them out of
our hands quick Here, there's room for them
right down in this corner.
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The common dining set looks like an equip
ment for a toy house. The table is about
inches high and its top is tray about inches
square. Every person has mis- own table. He
sits on his cushion. and the servant. a neatly
dressed Japanese girl. brings him not his din
ner only but his dinner table. There is no
common dining room IN Japanese house or
hotel. The dinner is served wherever the
guest wants it. When he comes into the house
he is served with tea. The tea is kept handy
in a metal canister. and kettle for hot water
is placed on the hibachi. The servant uses
much ceremony in serving the tea. After
pouring the hot water upon the leaves and flu
ing the CUP, she places it upon little
metallic holder, and with a bow pushes it
within reach OF the guest. Then next she
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Lawn and GreenhOuSp-

Land-plaster is an excellent fertilizer for
nearly all kinds of flowers. Geraniums grow
rapidly when plaster is sprinkled around the
stems and over the roots.
In pruning roses, cutting back closely pro-
duces, as rule, fewer blossoms of finer quality,
while from those hot so closely pruned will be
obtained larger quantity of smaller flowers.
Nitrate of soda (saItpeter) is excellent for
weak and slckly plants. Dissolve tablespoon
full in gallon of soft water and sprinkle the
plants with the solution once day. Nitrate of
potash Is better, but Is more expensive.
Vick's Magazine tells of greenhouse in
which twenty thousand young rose plants be-
came infected with mildew to woful extent
when they were treated to solution of sulphide
OF potash, a quarter of an ounce to a gallon of
water, syringed with a fine hose The mildew
was at once destroyed, and the plants were then
syringed with pure water.
Not long since we called on farmer whose
wife was passionately fond of flowers and had
the finest geraniums We ever saw outside of a
greenhouse. When asked the secret of her
success she replied: 1T is because grow nv
plants In tin cans, and in these they do not dry
up as they do in porous pots; in the tins only
water two or three times a week, while in pots
they must be watered twice day, and no plant
will thrive if under water half the time"
'Well, Ned, l proposed to Miss Jenkins last
night, and she has accepted me-"
Did you, though?' why, never for a mo-
ment thought you had the slightest idea of
marrying"
Il didn't, but Miss Jenkins won me SO COM
pletely by her beautiful tact aud delicate fore
thought"
'In what respect"
'Why, when called she walked up to the
mantelpiece and stopped the clock. Merchant
TrdpeIer.
A Candid Explanation Blobson Ito attend
ant at Turkish bath establishment)-"How
much do these baths reduce a mans weight"
Attendant-'That depends hon the bathin'
'abits Of the person, sir. Some men lose moth
ing; others, like yourself, sir, be quite hapt to
lose art dozen pounds. Burlington Free
Press
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The mysteries of a Japanese lady's toilet are
all exposed in the collection. There is tot
let stand or case with its round and highly
polished metallic mirror. The toilet stand
might do for good-sized American doll OF
baby. The japanese maiden viii get down on
her knees or sit upon a mat spread before the
case. There are little drawers FOR her combs
and pins. She has good many wooden combs
OF different shapes. In one little jar is kept
the pigment with which a married woman
blackens her teeth. practice which is going
out of fashion This cOlorinG matter is APP
piled with feather brush. In a little saucer
on the stand is a quantity of red aniline dye.
with which she heightens the color of her lips
The japanese belle uses many arts and has a
large assortment of cosmetics. They have
powder and rouge. and paint and delicate. soft
brushes. with which to apply them. Some of
their powdering and painting is done in fam
tastIc way. and not apparently for the purpose
of counterfeiting beautiful natural complex
ion Prof. Hitchcock said lie had
seen young japanese women with powder or
paint laid on in streaks or in the shape of
diamonds all around their necks. The toilet
outfit also includes perfumery. coil or two of
the paper Irvine or string made so neatly by
the japanese and stick OF pomatum The
string Is used IN tying the hair, which is rub
bed with the pomatum until il is glossy and
stun. The dressing Of the hair is not under
taken every day. 1t is something in the nature
OF a permanent improvement. and the
Japanese woman puts on enough pomatum to
make the hair shine and keep in place for some
days. Ihls Is one reason why the little wooden
pillows or head-rests are used. On a pillow
such as one expects TO find in an American
house, the hair would become mussed. and il
would be necessary to dress il every day A
japanese pillow Is a mere block of wood or a
roll that fits under the head at the base Of the
skull and keeps it up off the floor. Another
toilet article like the stand itself is on such
small scale as to almost escape notice. This is
a dainty towel, hardly big enough to cover
ones face.
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She Won't be Cheated.
Usury persists until
Every claims receipted,
Thus we know when we are Ill,
Nature won't ha cheatad

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- For instance his feet
were attired in pair of straw slippers, with
nothing at the heel to hold them on, and among
the Jars retorts and apparatus OF his labora-
tory a tiny teapot was giving forth little Jet
OF steam. Prof Hitchcock. with true Japanese
hospitality, poured out tea for his visitor in "a
little cup that held about a tablespoonful
This was japanese tea made in the japanese
style. No Jap would ever think of spelling tea
with sugar and milk. so the STAR reporter. in
order TO get fully in sympathy with the Japan
csc, took the clear yellOwish-cOlored liquid
straight and found il delightful beverage.
And then the saki, Prof. Hitchcock produced
his bOtte-a long slender Japanese bottle. and
filled two little cups with it, and the professor
and the reporter sat at the table facing each
other. Then they raised the cups to their lips
and silently pledged each other. Prof. Hitch
cocks two years residence in Japan has en-
abled him TO swallow his saki without wincing.
He even says he likes it. The reporter gulped
down his saki and vainly tried as a matter of
courtesy to conceal the pickering grimace that
the muscles about his mouth insisted upon
forming.
still" he said. in Difference to his host.
''there Is something in it that one might acquire
q liking for"
You mean the alcohol, I presume" said the
professor dryly. and the reporter recognized
then that he had come across an old acquain-
lance i'll this Japanese compound.
Then the professor having thus smoothed the
way. put himself at the reporters service.
What the reporter wanted was to take a little
journey to Japan and go into a Japanese house
and see just how the Japanese lived. In long
and spacious case in the north hall of the mu-
scum is arranged a collection which Professor
Hitchcock brought home with him. These are
japanese household articles. One could COM
pletely furnish a japanese house from this
case. There are all the kitchen utensils. mat
tings for the floor, beds, pillows, warmers.
toilet sets. writing cabinets, all the parapher-
MALTA for japanese dinner. smoking sets. saki
sets, paintings TO hang like banners On the
wall, night lights and little shrines before
which devOut shinto worshipers can kneel in
prayer. Everything seemed to the reporters
unaccustOmed eye to be on a dainty dollhouse
scale, but the articles in the collection are Just
what are actually used by the Japanese. The
reporter had only to construct in his imagina-
tion japanese house and Prof Hitchcock took
him through the structure and pointed out the
objects of interest and explained their uses
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japanese bed is the mating that covers the
roor. At bed time several blankets or quilts
are produced. One is rolled out on the mat
UNCOVERED floor and forms the mattress.
i he pillow. as stated above, is either a small
DIock OF wood or wooden structure, like q
immature saw-hOrse. intended to bit at the nape
OF the neck. Some more luxurious ones are
rolls or little round cushions made of some soft
material When the Japanese or his visitor
stretches himself out ON his blanket and LAYS
ms mead on tins executioner's block for a pill
low he draws over him one, two. or half
dozen blankets, according to his fancy and the
temperature of the air about him. In cold
weather, Jaianese houses are ANYTHING but
comfortable, as no arrangements are made for
heating them. The Jap, however proposes 10
be comfortable in his bed, and he provides
himself with bed warmer This is a grated
box or case, with receptacle inside. in which
charcoal Is burned. He puts this charcoal
stove under his blanket, near his feet and
wraps his limbs about it. The Japanese will
sleep this way all night. Another simpler form
OF bed-warmer is merely an earthen jar, with a
handle. which Is not protected by the grated
box. The live Goals are placed in this, and
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DUNCANsoN BROS. Auctioneer
BOWLING. Auctioneer.

EXECUTORS SALE OF VERY VALUABLE PROP
EkTi OF FOURTEEN ACRtS OF LAND AND
IMPROVEMENTS, Al TENALLYTOWN, ID. Z.
On TUESDAY, MAY FOURTEENTH, 1889 at
FlNEOCLOck, viii sell on the premises fronting on
the Murdoch Mill road and the Military road and
mediately opposite the lands of AIRS. Patton and
known as DumblSne ana the burroughs property.
This property Is improved by nearly new frame
dwelling, containing ten rooms. with dairy, wash
rooms. large stable, carriages, aud corn house &c.
Terms: Onethird CASH balance in two and three
years. with notes bearing interest and secured by
deed of trust on the property sold AL cash. at the
option of the purchaser. A deposit of 5000 will be
required at the time Of sale. All conyeyancing and
recording at the cost Of purchaser.
myl-dts e. W RAY, Executor.
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IN A JAPANESE HOUSE.
YUM YUM AND HER TOILET.
NANKI POO's DINNER AND BED.
Daily Life OF His Household as Illus.
trated Mt the National Museum.

THE STOVE THAT THE JAP TAKES TO BID WITH
HIM-DRINKING TEA AND sAKI-A JAPANESE
DISSEE AND THE KITCHEN IN WHICH IT Is
FREPARED-cHopsr1cKs. PIPES AND FANS.
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