The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-27

have their first parliament in November
next. OF this body 306 will be liberals,
against only thirteen conservatives, and the
d v OF illuminated wearing apparel is evil
IDENTIFY doomed This will be the inartistic
results a educating japanese young men IN
the United States and France and Ger
many.
a reporter for the Inter Ocean asked Ar.
Hara about Japanese journalism, and the
young man produced q pink-tinted paper
shat apparently had neither beginning nor
end. Down the right hand edge Of a page
ran q seriss OF curious black figures that
looked like black illustration of the jim
jams.
Mr. HARA EXPLAINED.
that this was Zizi !Shimpo, which means
The Times. In reading the paper yol hold
tue columns horizontally. You read down
the right hand column and then down the
next line 10 the lefS, and 50 on till you
finish the column Then you begin again
at the right hand of the next column below
The paper is printed from movable type.
Mr. Hsra explained that the presses were
worked by hand, man power being cheaper
in Japan than steam. The Zizi Shimpo is
a daily paper, with either six or eight pages
for each issue. IL is chiefly devoted to
politics, though it contains half a page of
Geographic news, the railroad time tables
vic oalOunC1AUclL VI IUH 2EFAfEt anu uG-
parture Of steamships, few lines of local
news. the market rep5rts-very brief-and
healthy looking lot Of advertisements.
The Zizi ShimpO IS IL years OLD, but the
Nlcht-nichi Shimbun, or Daily NeUs, is
older by several years. The Zizi Shlmpo
has 8 200 or 1900 subscribers.
Mr.. Hara says its reporters, Of which it
has about twenty, are paid by the piece and
earn from IS 70 500 month It's editorial
writers are paid from S25 TO 500. The
elitor-in-chisf receives $3.50 month Mr..
Hsra says their wealth and great attain
ments cause newspaper men to be held IN
the highest respect.
The four weeklies Of Mr.. Hara pere are
his really valuable publications. They seem
to be mixture of newspapers ane maya
zines, except the Niydkono Hdrd-the
flower OF the capital-which is a literary
magazine pure and simple. It has c.rcula-
ton Of $1,000 copies, the largest in Japan.
IL IS sold at 10 cents copy. or "a q year.
the subscriber paying the postage, which is
about cent q number. This paper con-
tains stories, poetic flights, critical articles,
and advertisements. Its " riters are well
paid.
OF THE 300 PAPERS
published in Toxic only eight are political,
and they are always in danger of being sus-
pended for saying something that the gov
eminent disapproves Of. Most members of
the Liberal party favor the use of Roman
type Ia publications, but Old Man Hara
and other conservatives stick to their tea
box characters. One paper is already pub
lished in Roman characters.
The political papers pay little attention to
police news or other petty local affairs; but
there are daily story papers that are
primarily story papers, but which also
make feature OF local news.
Mr.. Hara has taken a course Of law in
this country, but he says when he returns
TO Japan, which he will soon do, be shall
eschew the law In that land of cherry
blossoms and lotus flowers nothing so I'M
ideal as the law is regarded as res pectable,
and lawyers are contemptuously called
sanouku, which means mot worth cents u
50 Mr.. Hara will succeed his fa her at the
bank and book store. which rejoices in the
name of the Golden Port
Great changes are occurring in Japan,
says Mr. Hara Many young men return
from Germany and France as anarchists:
others came back from the United States
as republicans. Mr.. Hara says he is a
liberal IN Japanese politics. but he sees no
reason Tor alb lishing the present form of
government since 1t has been modified into
a constitutional monarchy. But he goes in
for dress reform. He doesen't want to wear
a dressing gown on each arm and have his
legs
DONE UP IN swADDLING CLOTHES.
The distinction between the dress of a
man and woman 10 Japan is that the
latters belt is mnch broader than the mans
That is the only difference, except that the
women wear brighter colors than the men.
Nobody ever saw japanese man In trunks
and tights outside of a cheap representation
of THE Mikado.n
There are other reforms Mr.. Hara would
institute. He says his father has TWO or
three concubines They don't live in the
house WITH Mrs. Hara, bat if Mr.. Hara
wanted them to nobody could object. Very
often the wives Of the left hand are quar-
tered with the legitimate family. If the wife
objects to this the husband serads her about
business. He is divorced at his own volt
ton and without the trouble and expense of
lawyers fees and legal proceedings Jealousy
Is always sufficient ground for divorcing
q woman. liz she commits little indis-
cretion she Is sent TO jail for year or two.
Mr.. Hara says he thinks this is all wrong.
DE doesn't want to make female base bail
players or lady boxers out of the Yum
Yums of japan, but he thinks they ought
to have little more freedom. They live
immured from the world, aad have no law
but the will of their husbands or fathers.
Mr.. Hara says the greatest vice and most
corrupting influence with the youth of his
country grow out Of the licensing of the
houses of prostitution No shame attaches
to the women living in such house, or to
the man, married or single, who visits
it. Fathers put their daughters into
such houses, hoping that they may form
desirable alliances, or perhaps marry a no.
bleman, which has happened often enough
to make girls and their fathers hopeful.
But ali this is very corrupting, and leads TO
drinking and gambling. and their oonse-
quent ills. Tho influx Of Europeans and
Americans is working a change In this re-
spect, and there is now much talk of abol-
ishing the houses; but the people who talk
about closing them do not refuse to visit
them. The woman, however, have been
prohibited from visiting places of public re-
sort, and one never sees them now at the
halls or nlanaa Of OF nnaor,,nr4