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NEW WAY OF WASHING.
Less "ElbOv Grease" Applied Than by
the Old Method.


the Old Method.
From the Milwaukee Journal
II have found" said one of those mod
ern housekeepers whose ideas would hor-
rify her maternal ancestors IL they could
but hear them, that elbow grease, when
applied to laundry work, is not the much
to be praised thing that / have always
that in some cases 1t is detriment to sue
cessful and careful washing. By dint Of
many experiments 1 have discovered that
q small table or a fiat board and a SOFT
small scrubbing brush will work wonders
l can take an ordinary garment with collar
and sleeves badly soiled and cleanse it by
this process in one-thrd of the time and
with infinitely less hard work than the
average laundreSS. / make a mixture or
soap and kerosene Oil and let 1t stand
over night. or prepare 1t and keep it in a
stoppered jug or bottle. With a soft brush
rub the collar and cuffs and all of the
few minutes while others are being
done. When all are prepared, begin with
the first and rinse and brush the surface
with hot soapsudS. In nine cases out OF
ten the garment will need no further rub
bling. 1 do not approve of clothes being
for any length Of Time but should have
about one or three minutes In actually
boiling suds. This dissolves any gummy
substances that may not rub out or the
fibers, and makes the clothes more clean
and certainly more healthful. Clothes
soaked over night in warm sudS made with
the soap and kerosene mixture will wash
easier and look better, to say nothing or
wearing much longer than those 'laundried
in the ordinary way
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SILK Weaving.

is to be made. The caterpillars and butter
flies are often killed by steaming the
cocOonS, and the cocoonS are sorted so as
to have the silk of an even fineneSS and
color. The cocoonS are boiled before they
are reeled, and there is a vast deal of Work
IN making a single thread of silk. As to
the Keeling of silk, the greater part Of it
is still done by hand and by the rudest
sort of machinery. The motive power for
turning the reels of some of the factories
consists OF men who walk around in cir
Gle like a horse in a tannery, pushing two
poles, which, by series of cogs, run the
works in the rooms below. These men RET
ceive about 10 cents day for their work,
and the silk reelers, who are skilled la bor-
erS, get about 10 cents day. There are
two sorts of looms on which the silk is
woven, and these looms are of the rudest
construction. The women do the most of
the weaving, and silk Grape is made by
twisting two threads in opposite directions
thus producing the crinkly appearance Of
the texture.
The most of the silk used in Japan is for
its own people. and you find large silk
hardly girl n Japan who has not a silk
dress. We have an idea that the people
are loud in their clothes. This is a mis-
take The ladies of Japan seldom appear
on the street except in the most quiet col
ors, and the japanese gentlemen wear soft
grays and black. One of these Osaka silk
stores has dozens of clerks, who squat
down en- the floor when they sell you the
goods. There are no counters. The book
keeper sits fat on the floor and figures all
his calcult tons on 4 box of wooden buttons
strung upon wires He moves these up and
down, end can tell you the price in a mo-
ment and he seldom makes a mistake.
New Japanese Industries.
A number of new industries are making
their way into Japan, and d great deal of
Japanese wallpaper is now shipped to
America. 1t looks much like Lincrusta
Walton, and some of il has the appearance
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for merchants or importers to travel
through the empire, picking out their own
goods, and buying direct from the manu-
facturers. All business has been done
through middlemen, who are Japanese.
BY this treaty Americans can so into bust
ness anywhere in Japan. They can set
UP factories and employ Japanese cheap
labor TO make goods for America, and they
can buy where they please. The new
treaty Will make a great change in Japan,
and ii will probably be the most pros
porous country in the world during the
next five or ten years. The settlement of
the Chinese war will bring great amount
OF money into the country. The biggest
cities are already building factories, and
foreign trade is being cultivated in every
possible way. The japanese have for some
time realized that the markets of the world
are open 10 them. They are now studying
our tastes, and they are manufacturing
for our markets. They are fast becoming
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been erected. One which was built a year
or 50 ago cost half a million dollars, and
ii is operated largely by women and girls,
who receive from 10 to 20 cents per day as
wages. The best of The male operators
are paid about 30 cents per day, and these
people are working with modem machinery.
japan is now importing quite large num-
Der of CoCoops, and she raises them by the
ton every year. l was very much interest
ed in the process. 1t is different from that
used in China. The eggs of the silkworm
are placed on pieces of paper and hung UP
in a warm room about five feet above the
floor. As soon as they are Matched they
are sprinkled with bran made from millet,
and after a short time they are fed with
mulberry leaves, which are cut up into
little bits, and the pieces are increased in
size as the worms grow. They are fed
eight times every tWenty-four hours at
first, and they get older their meals
are cut down to four. 1t takes 1900 pounds
of mulberry leaves to feed the number of
silkwormS Matched from one sheet of eggs,
which varies from 5000 10 10000 in num-
Der, and the frames upon which they are
laid have to be charged every day. They
must be kept in warm rooms, and they
eat their biggest meals at night. When
they are ful!grown they begin to make
their cocoons and the butterflies are de-
stroyed in the cocoons, from which the silk
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UNCONSCIOUS MONOLOGISTS.
Victims of the Difficulty of Hearing
Oneself Think I'm This City.


From the New York Sun.
II cannot say whether l shall make any
detailed and professional use of my OBJ
servations," said neurologist, but l do
not mind telling you in a general way
that New Workers are fast becoming race
of unconscious monologists-that is, of
takers to themselves without knowing 1t.
Go down into the business quarter of the
city and just watch the people there. 1
have not got my percentages together yet.
but it is safe to say, roundly, that you will
see nearly half the people exhibiting some
of the forms of the disease-for. Of course,
it is a disease. They are either moving
their lips, wagging their heads, puckering
their eyebrows, making gestures with their
hands, or doing something, while In
great number of cases they are busy car
rying on imaginary conversations between
themselves and somebody else, laying
down the laws with much emphasis, read
ing the riot act to some one, or else meet
ing imaginary issues with circumstantial
replies.
You will see men doing the same thing
in hotel lobbies in the street cars and on
the uptown thoroughfares. Women are
falling into the habit Also but not so much
as men. The other day, while 1 was wait
ing for my coupe, sat at the office win
dow, and / declare that, out of the sew
enty-ive people who passed, eight were
showing some signs OF IIloHoioSaNia
''Of course, the primal cause of the dis.
ease is that we never allow our minds any
period OF repose. We are so eternally full
of plans and schemes that anything like
a quiescent mood is unknown, and that
condition of morbid mental activity super
venes, which in turn is followed by a dis
tinct weakening of the censory cells, of
which condition Accommodation Is al
ways one c1 the symptoms.
AT the same time, 1T must not be over
looked that undoubtedly much of the habit
is due to the fact that this city is so thun-
dering full of noise that one cannot hear
ones self thi k, and SO people have to
think aloud"
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FOR NERVOUS pRosrRAT1oN. Hysteria. Brain

FOR NERVOUS PRoSTRATIoN, Hysteria. Brain
Fag Hypochondria, Nervous Dyspepsia. Melan-
cholia, Locomotor Ataxia, Insomnia, Epilepsy and
general systemic Weakness, TAKE CEREBRINE
FOR Functional and Organic Affections Of the
Spinal Cord, TAKE MEDULLNE.
In Depression Of Spirits and Melancholia, due to
q weak state Of the Generative System, Impo-
tence, Atrophy Of the Organs. spermatorrhoea &C.,
USE TESTINE
FOR Functional Weakness of the Heart. re-
sulting from general local Nervous Debility; in
Organic Disease, when the action Of the Heart
requires to be strengthened or rendered regular;
Dropsy, Bright's Disease and Anaemia, TAXI
Caroline. In the latter condition Caroline acts
with great certainty in Increasing the quality Of
the red blood corpuscles.
FOR Myxoedema, Goitre, Eczema and Obesity.
TAKE THYRoIDNE.
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TICKETS FOR SEATS IN CHURCH.
Successful Experiment. Made by the
Peoples Temple I'm Boston,

The trustees of the Peoples Temple,
Columbus avenue and Berkeley street, Bos-
ton, of which the Rev. James Boyd Brady
is pastor, have been trying the experiment
of issuing reserved seat tickets for the
Sunday evening services The innovation
has proved TO be great success.
The members of the congregation have
tile first choice of seats, and then the pub
lie is admitted. This action was made
necessary in order to accommodate the
church's own members and contributors
who have been crowded out by the im-
mense increase in the general attendance
Although the auditorium holds ., 500 people
it has of late been crowded to the doors
on Sunday evenings.
The ticket plan has not only added ma
terially to the comfort of the regular men,
BERG, but it has tended to make transient
corners permanent, thus increasing the re-
sources of the church.
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of leather. I believe that the Japanese let
ter paper would sell well in the United
States. 1t shines ike silk, and 1T is won
derful1y strong. Indeed, some of the sheets
made at the government paper mill near
Tokyo are so tough that man can stand
in the center Of the sheet and be lifted up
by others who have hold of the corners.
There is big modern paper mill now in
Kobe, Japan, and the wrapping paper of
the country is much finer than anything
We have. 1t is soft as cloth, and they
have a way of making the paper so that
it has all the qualities of cloth, and is by
no means offensive to ones touch when
used as handkerchiefs. Japan is now pub
fishing some of the most beautiful books
of the world, and there is an establishment
in Tokyo which will compare in size with
Those of our big publishers. The prices for
printing and engraving are wonderfully
cheap, and l believe that our offices could
make money by having their plates pre-
pared in Japan and printed there here.
/ don't know as TO the copyright law in
this respect, but yoI can get The finest of
half-tone work, such as is used in our best
square inch in American money. Such il
Illustrations cost from 40 to 80 cents per
square inch in this country.
Japanese Candies.
1t is a wonder to me that the Japanese
candy is not imported into the United
States. / believe that some enterprising
man, like the fellow who got up these di-
costing chewing gums, could make a for
tune by shipping japanese sweet which
is known as midzuame into the United
States. This is a delicious candy, much
more palatable than gumdrops, and Of
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will crowd the eastern rugs out of the
market, for they are born artists, and
every child in the empire is genius as to
the manipulate ton of cOlors. There are viii
lagos in Japan that make nothing but
these rugs. l visited one known as Sakal
near Osaka and L was introduced to the
biggest OF the manufacturers. man who
employed three thousand hands. The work
was done almost altogether by hand. and
in houses which looked more like stables
than anything else. The rroprietors name
was A1itani and he was a very bright Jap
anese indeed. He had two hundred houses
in his establishment and he took me TO
a number of these. Some of the children
who. were working at ruGmaking were
under six years of age, and there were
number Of girls about ten. They receive
from seven to eight cents in silver day,
ard they work from in the morning until
G at night, having an nour at noon for
lunch. They work Sundays and week days
but have two holidays during each month.
l talked with Mr.. Nitani as to the prices
of the rugs. and il is wonderful how cheap
ly they can be made. Take a rug three
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the house sometimes consists of only one
room. Still, it is wonderful how happy the
people are, and how they laugh as they
work The AVERAGE workngman rises al 4,
and has his breakfast. consisting OF rice
and tea The rice If often cold, and IL
NAV have been left over from last night S
dinner. He pourS hot tee upon it to warm
it and eats it with chopsticks. AT he be-
gins work and at noon he has lunch OF
rice furnished by his employer. At he
eats his dinner at home. This consists Of
plenty of rice, a little dried fish and clans,
if they are in season. In the evening he
smokes, chats and gOSsips with the neigh
bors and probably gees to bed early. He
has two suits of clothes, one for working
and the other for holidays. He goes to the
public bath about once a day, and there
perboils himself in connection with the
other men and women OF his acquaintance
for about eight-tenths of cent. There
are 500 public baths in Tokyo alone in
which 30OG90 people battle daily, at the
cost of 1 cent head, and though the work.
man may omit his dinner, he will seldom
omit his bath.
You find public baths in all the cities,
and these are full every evening. Both
men and women battle together in the
country districts, and whole family goes
to the bath house, and babies and all
steam themselves until their pores are
clean. Within the last few years there
has been a separation of the sexes in the
big city bath houses, but it has only been
by running fence about three feet high
through the pools. and the men battle on
one side, while the women wash them
selves on the other.
Something A5out Wages.
I am told that wages have been increas-
ing since the modern civilization has come
into Japan, but they are still very low
and the reduction in the price of silver Just
about cuts them in half. The figures which
follow are in japanese currency, and II
they were in American money they would
be Just half Of what is here given: Com
mon laborers receive from 10 to 20 cents
day. and the men who pull carts and
practically take the place of our dray
horses get from 10 to Is cents. In the
cities the prices are higher than these but
farm laborers often receive less than 10
cents day. Carpenters get from 40 to 80
cents. Head cartmen receive from 25 to 10
cents day, and paperhangers get from 40
cents upward. Blacksmiths are paid from
% to 50 cents, and painters about the
same / saw many boys working for about
10 cents day, and 1 was told that the
clerks in the stores who got SIS a month
thought they were doing exceedingly well
Many clerks work for their board and their
clothes, with the understanding that after
an apprenticeship Of about ten years the
merchant will give them a small stock of
goods and allow them to start out for
themselves.
e o~~K.A CNtpAs~
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Gut of Training.

From the Indianapolis Journal
How comes it that you didn't publish
that article of mine on my Alpine climbing
experiences? l mailed it to you a week
ago"
I'VE never got it. Probably the stamp
came off Why didn't you bring it around
to us?
II did come around, but the elevator
wasn't running. Do you suppose 1 am 60
ing to climb all the way up four flights Of
stairs when a postage stamp only costs
two cents?'
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Animal Extracts
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Women

Foh Congestion Of the ovaries, Chronic InHams
nation OF the Ovaries, imperfect development Of
the ovaries, Neuralgia of the Ovaries, Amenorr-
hoea, Chlorosis, Hysteria, Neurasthenia and dur.
Ing the Climactric change Of life, TAXI
OvARINE.
Above are the indications for the use Of
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for years by the Japanese a covering
for their floors, but it was made only IN
white patterns and the mats were put to-
gether in the form of cushions about three
feet wide and six feet long, and the houses
were so built that number of these mats
just fitted into each room, and the size
of a room in Japan is known by the num-
Der of mats it takes to cover it.
China VS.. Japan.
I asked Mr. Flood as to what was to be
the future of this mating industry. He
replied Il believe it will eventually drive
the Chinese mating out of the market.
1t is much pretticr thar the Chinese mat
ting. 1t is clean and healthy. The cheap
est varieties can be put into America for
about cents a yard, though the more eX-
penSive kinds are, of course, very much
dearer. AS 1 said before, it was almost
it now employs thousands of men and
women, and there are whole counties
which practically live off of it,
"Japans trade with America seems to
be increasing" said /.
Yes, it is" was the reply, land it will
continue to increase. The Japanese are
Studying the world, and they are going to
make all sorts of cheap goods. They make
as fins paper as you can find in America,
and their silk trade is good. There are
100000 silk looms in Kiota, and they now
compete with France in all kinds of silk.
1t would surprise you to know the number
OF cuTlOS InaC are sent away IEOil mere
There is one firm in New York which i'm
ports S1J0,O0O worth every year, and you
find them for sale in all the stores in
America. 1 have never seen anything like
these japanese. They are wonders in the
way of industry. The whole family works,
and the more the children the bigger the
income. Japan is, in fact, about the most
prosperous country in the world today.
There are practically no beggars, and the
people are happy and well-to-do. The gem
eral idea of Japan is that it is made up
of fans. pretty girls and curio shops. This
is a great mistake. These are but the in
cidents of the life of Japan. This is big
business nation, and it is business from the
word go. The chief industries of the coun-
try are devoted TO supplying the goods
which the people need fer themselves, and
the curio merchants are like the antiquity
dealers of other countries, and do not con-
stitute a big business part of the nation
Something About Japanese silks.
There are quite a number of Americans
in Japan who are now enge ged in buying
silks and shipping them to the United
States. Several large factories have lately
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Her Stay In Paris.

From the New York Weekly.
Mrs. D'Avnoo-'I advertised for French
nurse"
Applicant-"Oi how been in France,
num-"
Not very long, I guess"
mo, mum; Oh only shtayed long enough
to get the accint.'
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must go back to the
city fer their Christ
mas. It seems there
amt no pore yer in
the country fer to
satisfy e m, a n d
they're accustomed
to seein' to the pore
at holiday times"
NJ ! S S Pendraggon
concluded with a
sniff, but there had
been a certain unac-
cOuntahla envy rlIp-
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satisfactorily Arranged.

From Life.
Jones-"My wife prefers linen sheets and
1 prefer cotton"
Robinson-"How do you manager
Jones--"Oh, We compromise"
RobiI son-"How's that?'
Jones-"Well, we-er-compromise on cot
ton"
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feet wide by six feet long of the kind that
is used for hearth rugs in the United
States and which costs when sold at home
about 50 -. II takes japanese four days
TO make one Of these rugs. The jute has
to be imported. 1t must pay a duty on
coming into Japan, and the rugs, l think,
nav a duty on going into America. Alto
gether out of this S225 there come about
sixteen profits and the wages are so low
that the Japanese can afford to make them.
The japanese are making some very curl
Gus rugs now. Their cotton rugs are good
and cheap, though the best, which are
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between Japan and
the United States,
which is now in the
hands of the Senate,
will probably make
a big d ference in
our trade with the
Japanese. Heretofore
all our business has
had to be done
through a limited
number of the ports
of the country. 1t
has been impossible