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The herald., 1893-10-01

For your Japanese, rich and poor,
are remarkable for their social qualities,
and love to congregate together to eat,
drink and sing, or more often listen to
the ever-present geisha with her little
drum and samisen. One difference we
notice is that the ladies OF the family
are conspicuous by their absence, and
the fair sex being in evidence only in
the capacity of mattresses, OF koshimoto,
singing and dancing geishas, painted,
adorned and dressed in truly wonder
full and withal picturesque manner, the
outcoms OF centuries of study"
A volume might be written on the
subject of Japanese clothes, or rather
draperies, and an interesting compari-
son made between these graceful curve
creators used for covering the equally
graceful curves of the human body, by
the Japanese in Asia and the Greeks Of
Europe. But / hear my readers say
that this sketch was to be devoted to the
flowing bowl. and that they enter pro-
test against being switched off on to
draperies, however poetic they may be.
Well, "revenous nos moutons," and
as an expiation for the digression let US
enter unlimited and unseen into this
gaily illuminated house, hung with fan
cifully decorated cochins to light the
guests from their karamas to the ban
quet hall, where having arrived they
will find themselves in an oblong room
made by removing the ksraksmi or
paper partitions that divide 1t in less
gpla days into four or five smaller ones.
The place is hoored with closely woven
mats of tatarni, scrupulously clean in
appearance, as is due to floor that is
all the sitting furniture afforded, and
that must not coil the rich silk hakama
worn by the Japanese on state and fes-
kiva 0ceaaiopa
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SEX IN BRAIN.

The Difference Between the Male And
Female.
Sir James Crichton Browne, q ply
eician who has had much experience of
the insane, has examined the brains of
1900 subjects. He comes to the conclus-
ion that nature makes palpable differ
ences between male and female brains.
First there 10 q difference in weight,
the male being heavier, possibly by one
ounce, relative to weight of body;
second, while the frontal lobes are equal
in the sexes, the parietal are larger in
the male and the occipital in the fe-
male, who, consequently, has quicker
perceptions third, the female brain is
less convoluted in the gray matter and
has less surface !; fourth, the blood sup
ply is more copious in the anterior lobes
in the male and the posterior has a
larger supply in the female, and these
parts have different activities. The
blood of the female is also poorer in
corpuscles, there being half million
less in cubic millimeter.
Sir James fears that the tendency OF
too much education or intellectual de-
velopment in women is to make them
lose beauty. He instances the Zaro
women OF India. They are supreme.
They WOO the men. control the affairs
of the home and nation, transmit prop
erty and leave man nothing to do. The
result is that they are the ugliest women
on earth. Sir James, however, ia a
lunaey doctor.
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HORTON WILL PLEAD GUILTY.
But He VIII Apply for a Pardon at
OncP.

But He VIII Apply for a Pardon at
OncP.
s. B. Horton, an employee of the
Harper Reynolds Hardware company,
was examined yesterday before Justice
Austin upon charge Of having stolen a
quantity of guns and pistols valued at
over $400. the property of his employer.
No defence whatever was offered by
the defendants counsel. Horton having
resolved to plead guilty at bis trial in
the superior court and throw himself
ON the mercy of the court.
He wac held to answer in the supe-
rior court under bonds in the sum of
$500.
Horton declares that he will apply for
q pardon aa soon as he finds himself in
the penitentiary.
There is some talk OF proceeding
against the pawnbrokers who received
the stolen property, but there is no evil
dence of their being aware that the
goods they bought were not the prop
erty OF the seller.
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on the h00r, and proves to Do the last,
and all being cleared away, comes the
ceremony of the evening. The host,
rising, comes, and seating himself oppo-
cite the honored guest, he exchanges
with him sakiwsu. each first rinsing it
in bowl of water brought for the pur-
pose. Then, being filled with the warm
liquor. they drink loving cup, wishing
eGch other many kind things.
After the host comes each of the other
participators in the feast and and the
lion OF the evening repeats the ceremony
with him. Fortunately If conquered by
so or 30 repetisions, he succumbs. He
can sleep where he falls, and rising the
next morning prepare to pay the cere-
monial visit called for by such an enter
tainmsnt, repeating the time honored
formula "how gloriously drunk he had
the honor to be at his princely enter
tainer's voluptuous banquet last night" !"
Amongst the many quaint customs OF
the Japanese baccanalians, who may be
known by the red blotch on his chest
put there apparently to match his bibu-
lous noae, is the superstitious one that
to be lucky one must be drunk at least
once between "early morn and dewey
eve." This conceit is confined to the
northern provinces. and judging by the
religious observance of the good rule
few If any unlucky persons can be
found. Never quarrelsome, always
merry and good-humored, the sake.
nomino 'hito is taken philosophically
and evokes neither ecorn nor repulsion.
1t is his way and he enjoys it, chacun a
son gout.
1t will hardly be necessary to say that
sake is made from fermented rice. 1t
is drunk warm and tastes not unlike a
mild sherry. To the strong westerner's
stomach it is harmless and he could
hardly contain enough to induce
intoxication. but the vegetarian Japan
eee is lees able to withstand its fumes,
and, aided by inhaled tobacco, he
gu ckly shows its effects and as quickly
RECEIVERS therefrom.
Traditions OF Kwate Ken place the
discovery of sake to the apes that
abound in the mountains of that prov
ince. On one of their more daring raids
they carried off some good wife's
rice mess as 1t awaited the coming home
of the fishing party, hungry from their
arduous task. Escaping into the hills,
the unlimited guests proceeded to gorge
themselves, ensconced in the branches
of mighty oak filed to repletion, they
dropped the remaining rice into cup
shaped Granny in the tree and scampered
off. During the next day the sun is OBJ
scured and tho rain descends and thor
oughly soaks the rice. Nearing away
towards evening the storm allows the
low rays of the setting orb to pene-
trate the branches of the forest, and by
a happy chance, it go focuses it's rays on
the sec,eted rice that fermentation sets
in and Sake is born into the world. Who
shall describe the delight of the apes
as they discover the marvellous change
that has occurred, or how after this
reference each new supply of rice was
subjected to the same process and
eventually was revealed or discovered,
and became the possession of the people
of this fowery land?
The herald., 1893-10-01
4 sake bottle and alnsees.
tive occasions.

Now from our coign OF vantage let us
view the scene and silently join in the
festivities. Ranged along three sides Of
a rectengle the guests are seated accord
ing to their rank, for in this country
every man has his place and precedence,
nor does he presume to sit above it. At
the top eits the honored lion of the
evening, and on each eide of him and,
like him, with feet turned backward
utilized for a seat, are the two enter
tainers. Then down each eide in di-
minishing Importance to the humblest
retainer are seated, in similar fashion,
those called to partske in the entertain
ment.
Before each guest stands hibatchi to
contain the lighted charcoal needed to
ignite the innumerable little pipes OF
tobacco he will consume during the
evening. From the open side and be-
tween the rows OF chanting, laughing
and merry visitors come, in their best
clothes, the koshimotos, bearing in
their hands the tabero dai, n low and
individual table, to each guest. on which
is placed choice morsel, such
as the awabi or the fragrant
aansnA. than which no Swiss cheese ever
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THE JAPANESE AND THEIR JAGS.
How the Chrysanthemum Land
People Take Toddy.
Their Sake Tia or Wine Shops Bear
Bush Sign.
A Description of a Grand Drinking
Bout-ro BE Lucky Ono Must
Get Drunk at Least
Once q Day.

Mr.. Gervaise Purcell, A. M. 1. G. E.,
F. L. L., who spent many years in the
service of the imperial government OF
Japan, furnishes the following interest
ing paper on Japanese conviality, the
fourth of series he is furnishing for the
Sunday HERALD:
That 'good wine needs no bush." is
a proverb that has is origin in the an
cient custom peculiar to European vim
tners, goes without the saying. But
that this sign, honored in the use by
the inn keepers of the middle ages,
should have it's counterpart in ''far
Cathay" is noteworthy and astoniBh-
ing. There is no Japanese city or vii
lage but boasts OF it's ''sakeya" or wine
shop, and no sake shop without its sign,
great bush suspended over the door.
No dram shops there, Matching crime
and dissipation by selling stomach des-
troying chemically made compounds
under alluring titlee, but rather cellars
dispensing sake Of various ages and
strength in bulk to be carried home and
imbibed during a period of convivial in
tercou-se with ones friends.
The herald., 1893-10-01
THE JUSTICE COURT.


Nellie Too Smart For the Officer-Mc-
Gilvery Sentenced.
Nellie Wilson was fined $40 yesterday
for soliciting.
Officer Boone testified that he stopped
the woman on the street and asked her
where she was going. After some
conversation she invited him to her
room where he went, afterwards arrest
ing her.
There was no evidence to show that
the woman was openly soliciting until
she was accosted by Boone. The officer
also stated that he chad tried to catch
her" the preceding night, but unsuc-
ceesfully.
Vincent McGilvery, the tough who
assaulted g. Jovaux two weeks ago al
Westlake park aud fractured the lstter's
jaw, appeared for sentence yesterday
afternoon.
Justice Austin fined him $75 or 75
days. imprisonment. The money was
paid.
Fred Baker. found guilty of soliciting
aims, was given 30 days straight and a
lecture by Justice Austin yesterday.
The herald., 1893-10-01
THE Y. p. S. c. E.

The Semi Annual Convention to Be
Held on Saturday.
The semi-annual convention of the
Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor will take place on Saturday
next. October 7th, at Simpsons taber-
nacle.
There are several features OF special
interest in the programme, chief OF
which will be the report of the interna-
tional convention, made by Mr.. w. p.
Ball of Montreal, and Miss Elsie NJ.
Palmer, secretary for the county of Los
Angeles.
A gold medal contest for papers on
the following eubjects will be given !:
"The saloon; it can never be legalized
without sin," Donald Brookman of Los
Angeles; The saloon and the home,"
BERTHE Crittenden of Pasadena, and
1.-THE saloon and your mission," James
P. Allen, Pomona.
DIR. w. J. Chichester will deliver an
address upon Power for eervice," and
Mrs. M. E. Auer will sing during the
evening session.
The herald., 1893-10-01
Santa Ana, So
INTERPRETATIONS.
A Contracting Company aud q Gun Ciab
Organized.

A Contracting Company aud q Gun Clab
Organized.
The Pasadena Contracting and Build
ing company filed articles of incorpora-
tion yesterday. It's objects are to engage
in the construction of all classes Of
buildings. manufacture cash doors
and blinds and all descriptions of wood
work. The directors are A. W. Pierce,
s. A. Renee, Charles Freeman, E. H..
Bishops and H. Hitler, all of Pasadena.
The capital stock is $25,00G, of which
$1100 has been subscribed.
The San Fernando Valley Gun club
aleo filed articles OF Incorporation. The
directors are w. p. Granger, E. l..
Brown, s. r. Maclsy, l. @. Villegas and
Wadsworth Baylor, all of San Fernando.
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smelled stronger. After this is eaten the
sake bottle is lifted out of it's bath of
warm water and tiny porcelain cup is
filled for and qusffed by each guest,
warming and opening his heart and
loosening his tongue, till the merry jest
flies off like the scintillations of an auro-
ra. If it be somewhat high favored at
least it is witty.
And now course after course pursue
each other through the long evening,
varied by dance and song of the geishas
occupying the center space. At last the
twentieth or thirtieth course is pieced
The herald., 1893-10-01
PRIVILEGED sixth District Fair.

Bids will be received up to September
10Th, noon, by the secretary, at 1917
North Main street, for the bar. pool cell
ing etcc. c... privileges at the Sixth Diatrict
Agricultural fair, to be held at Los
Angeles from October 10Th to 2lst. in
elusive. L. Tnorne, secretary, l071s
Nnrth Main atraat
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to be true. NOR set down aught in NAL

now beg leave to take farewell of Mr..
Lummis in the words OF the archbishop
Of Granada to Senior Gil Bias de Santi-
lane: II wish you all manner OF hap
piness, with little more discretion"
ARTHUR JOHNSTON.
Santa Ana, September 81, 1898.
The herald., 1893-10-01

Thirty dollars allowed for old Davis's
sewing machines. Drop postal card to
128 South Main street.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-09-27
A Famous Dwarf in an Almsh0use.

Two Of the most interesting sights
at the Philadelphia Hospital which are
always a center of attraction to visit
ors are the two little people Lizzie
Francks, known as Barnum's Dwarf,
and Bartie Mills, who, by reason OF
paralysis, never developed beyond the
stature of boyhood. The former il
now in her fifty-eighth year and the
latter is over forty years old.
Lizzie Francks was once the center
of considerable attraction and was e.
hibited for years by Barnum as tTi-
tania, the Fairy Queen" She was one
Of the most wonderful and pretty mid
gets twenty years ago, and, although
then advanced in the thirties, still had
the glow of youth and beauty about
her. She travelled with Barnum's Cir
Gus all over the country and amused
by her singing and dancing the great
American circus-going public. She
was wonder on account of her dimin-
utive stature, and always drew large
crowds. Many may ask how, after long
and well-requited service, extending
over several years, she has come now,
in her advanced age, to be an inmate
of the aimshouse. The tale as told by
her is short but satisfactory explana-
tion
The money that was made for her ex-
hibition was handed to her parents,
who accompanied her, and who, by
their lavish extravaganza, wasted the
little "Queen's" hard-earned cash.
clad it been invested" she often has
said, s1 would still have little to
live upon now in my old days." The
little woman, however, is happy with.
her lot and beloved by all her comrades
in distress in the almhouse, to which
she was admitted on August %, 1877,
through her best friend, Mrs. Nc
Dowell, of this city. Although now
near the three-score years she still re-
tains to wonderful degree her beauty
and demure wsys. She is always very
industrious and cheerful.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-09-27
TIE CIr1LDREN'G GOSPEL.

Louise Chandler Moulton, in m article In
';ChiIdhood," says: "I think my first real
lesson in the true spirit of human brother
hood came from lady who went long ago to
her reward. There we're no factories in the
place where lived. no crowded tenements,
no starving poor, but there was certain
amount of poverty and Of ignorance, and
there was in this place lady-the richest
lady in all the country, so I heard the people
with a sort of romantic eagerness. She used
to ride about, all over the big, sparsely-set-
tied township, in little open wagon, and
in that wagon were books for children
who had no home libraries, dainties for
sick people, toys for fretful babies,
whose mothers had their own house
work to do. And this rich lady
VINO seemed to my childish eyes sort OF god
dess of good fortune-never INDUCED herself
in any luxury. Fashion for her was as if it
did not exist She wore O simple cotton
gown in Summer, an equally simple wooden
one in Winter, and she went on her errands
of mercy with sunbonnet shading her sweet
face from the hot suns of June, or warm
hood protecting her ears from. the blast OF
January don't know that ever said to
myself, ''Of such is the kingdom OF heaven" :"
but surely felt it.
One day I was sent to her house on slight
commission 1or my motner. She was out, as
usual, but her housekeeper. discerning, I
suppose in my face something ofthe reverence
with which I regarded her mistress, asked
me suddenly, "Do you want to see where she
prays2" and thereupon opened the door of a
room almost as austerely simple as monks,
and pointed to O couch where I could see
the impression OF O head bowed in
prayer. ''There," she said, sis where
she kneels." The housekeeper was called
away and shyly, and almost as If it were
sacrilege was committing kneeled in the
spot where the Lady Of Heaven, as I called
her in my thoughts, was wont to pray, and I
said hurried prayer that might, with
Gods help, walk in the holy way she trod.
had been taken to church all my life, I
had heard prayers enough and sermons
enough, but do not remember that any
one Of them had eyer moved me to q
single thrill Of spiritual longing and aspira-
tion such as experienced in that hushed
room, where she was wont to kneel whose
daily life seemed to me more than prayer or
sermon. :. . There is no truth in the
world more solemn than that our lives are the
gospel Of our children, a gospel that out
weighs thousand-fold any teaching with
which our lips contradict it. Put on what
deft DISCUSSES we may, the thing we are is
apparent to the young eyes that watch US so
increasingly. - message and Deaconess
World,
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VALUE OF RELIGIOUS EXAMPLE.
BY NJ. j. Middleton.

Many years ago there was living in Belfast,
Ireland, large family Of young people, who
were rich but very triling and. careless.
Nine sisters all lived in mere gayety and folly,
never thinking of their souls or the Word OF
God. W
About that time, however, God sent poor
but pious girl to live with them as a dressing
maid. AS she was much in their presence, the
young ladies ridiculedher religion very often
still she did not resent their ridicule, but made
il her constant study to be useful and help,
full to them and attentive to all their wants
After they were in bed ut night she would
offer to read the bible to them. At first they
soon fell asleep; still she persevered, and was
not discouraged. Before very long, though,
she was taken sick and died. But the young
ladies were not allowed to see her after she
was taken SICK although. they desired very
much to do so, as they had become very fond
of her. Soon after her death, the eldest two
Of the nine young ladies began to feel IN in
followers Of Christ and his religion.
In a short time afterwards God so blessed
their influence that their sisters were all con-
verted to the Savionr.
The eldest of all ascribed her conversion,
by the blessing Of God, entirely to the infu-
ence OF the life and death Of this humble,
! ious maid.
And the blessed effects of her example did
not cease there. Another family in the neigh
borhcod heard that these young ladies were
NIL insane about religion; but when they came
70 see them about it, expressly to inquire the
truth Of it, the influence of the converted
young ladies was so great that their example
became also blessing to their friends; and
ere long both families united together to en-
courage each other in the service of the Lord,
and 70 promote the interests of his kingdom.
Thus untold blessing and power came out
OF a single good example, and from girl
poor in this worlds goods, but happy in the
treasures OF heaven, where neither moth nor
lust can corrupt.
Who, then, should say, Of what consequence
my conduct and example2 Veal exert a
greater or less influence, either for EVIL or for
good.
Even little child often leads whole families
20 seek the salvation of their souls and love
God above all else. Sometimes even the
death of these little ones seems necessary to
make the impression OF Gods love upon his
creatures. forming golden link between
the friends on earth and these little lambs
.afe in the arms of Jesus where, though dead
to us here, they yet speak. Christian Cyno-
sure.
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Modern Hygiene.

Hardly day passes that we do not
receive some shock, that we are not
asked to give up some favorite dish
around which clusters host of tender
early memories, and after eating of
which we have, for twenty years Oh
end, felt ourselves grow fat and child
like and undyspeptic. But the mod
ern hygiene says it must 60, and if we
retain it on our list we do it in an anx-
ious and guilty mood sure of itself to
beget internal trouble.
Seemingly simple things like dry
toast, oatmeal anu apples we have
heard forbidden of late as hard to
take care of, and bananas, or, for ex.
ample, the delicious, but as we sup
posed deadly, fried bacon cried up as
food for babes and sucklings. This is
puzzling; it goes against our personal
experience, it upsets all Our dietary
plans and pleasures, and it awakens
the shrcwd suspicion that mere fashion
is at the bottom of the change.
One interested in the subject, hav-
ing an ak to grind, could without much
difficulty prove that every known edi-
BILE has at some time or other been de-
clared digestible and healthful; let
the experimenter eat with his Tor
her) eyes shut, and he Tor she) will be
backed up in what is chosen by some
respectable authority. This being so,
the wisest plan is to select food accord
ing to the private palate without re-
gard to Doctor A., B. or G. (since
Doctor x, Y. and 2. will infallibly
dispute them), and with the eye of
faith fixed on that good day when all
digestion will be carried on by artifi-
cial means, and the whole world may
be in that lovely state attributed to
George Meredith's gourmet who is
pictured in after dinner ease as Clan
guidly twinkling stomachic content
ment." Hartford Courant.
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TWILIGHT TOWN.

Beyond the shadows lies Twilight Town,
Where wee heads nod and lids shut down '
Over black eyes, blue eyes, gray and brown .
And through gap in the city wall
Is beautiful spot where sunOeams fall
And dance for aye, through tree-tops tall
Hush, baby! Soft and slow, |
Soft and slow, let us 20
Through the shadows to Twilight Town.
Soft as the wind through ripping wheat,
When the suns last rays and the shadows
meet, ..... ...t.. nm.
Sounds the patter Of thousands OF little teet-
Through the gap in the wall, on their dim
pied knees, .,.>.a. ~. ~
The babies creep under the waving trees,
On the grass of the kingdom, "Do-as-you-
please" '.I
Hush, baby! Soft and slow,
Slow, slow, let US go
Through the gap in the wall Of Twilight
Town. =
In Twilight Town all things are faf, so
The music of waterfalls in the air.
And bright wings fitting here and there;
And through the walls In the Dream Hill
bright
With the thoughts that please wee ones at 4
night, .. ..r.'H e..
Dancing in rings on cobwebs light. u
Hush, dearie! Mother knows
Soft, slow, baby goes
To fair Dream Hill, In Twilight Town. !:
st Nicholaa.
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Bartie Mills was born in Psschall and
has never been able to walk or talk be.
yond little muttering. He looks like
well-grown baby boy and is much
like one in habits. He always eats his
food with relish and enjoys the life
which he is compelled to lead. Bartie
likes to be around when the days are
fine and, although quiet and apparent
" like a child in bis chair, he is a close
observer of all that passes. In his
manner he is much like child and
has to be handled and fed the same as
a little one six months old. he has
two brothers in Paschall who refull
grown and well developed. -.,
Bartie always knows when it is bed
time as we'll as when he should be fed,
and makes motions to his guardian.
He was admitted to the institution on
October 10, 1879, and enjoys excellent
health. -Philadelphis Inquirer.