Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-03-28
JAPANESE HAIRpResSING.
The Sweet Little Woman Has Peculiar
Ideas About Cleanliness.

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Tho japanese toilet is robbed Of one
OF its fiuizulag touches by the fact that
no Japanese woman, gentle or simple,
however fond she may be Ct locking
into the sun shaped gun metal disk, sup
ported ca an artists easel, which serves
her for a looking glass, ever thinks of
doing her own hair. The hair, after
having all the last weeks fat 1.-THE Japa-
IeSe are ex~asperatingly clean in their
persouSl secured out Of it, is pomaded
up afresh wIrk the unCtuous and not
very ~oltactory pleasant compound, cas-
tory oily, aud worked into a most elab-
crate coiffure, more like a huge glossy
black butterfly than anything else. As
it is only dressed ouce or twice a week.
it is never taken down except by the
barber.
But it is easy to sleep with your hair
up when your pillow is merely q little
wooden door scraper, with a hollow Gus
in it to 1T the neck, and a drawer in its
base to hold the ornamental haiTpins.
The true japanese woman, whether
she is rich or poor, uses q paper pocket
handkerchief carried in one Of her long
hanging sleeves, with her tiny kiseru
(pipe) and silk tobacco pouch, and an
other pouch containing o tiny comb.
mirror and pigment for coloring the
lips She wears tabi white linen socks
with q divided great toe, through which
she ins.rts the strap Of q delicate straw
sanda! * q high kiFi wood clog. accord
ing 10 the dryness Of the heather, ei-
Their Of them discarded the instant she
enters q building, and her parascl will
be Of the national japanese shape,
whether it be Of oiled papSso o. delicate
ly embroidered silk, though - be sure
the Sairey Camp umbrella is about the
first contamination from the west which
her costume is likely TO suffer.
But / must not say any more about
the dress Of O-Hane San. the sweet lit
tie woman whose whole lifelong lesson,
to quote the "Onna Daigaku" (greater
laaynlLg iUr woulaul, is obedience. She
never loses her temper, never uses "a
coarse Or irritating word, and is always
piguaut and gracious and smiling,
tlou-b she VIII die for her husband or
hlE c ilI-gI g. e-Ec-o po.lugioa for her
rG.ss.s' = with marble cCCrage.-
London Or. 2
in the roller 1rara.s the whole prin-
cip.e q tie manufacture OF Essr Vas
oaaae1a Lrsteaa Of g-irgalI yhs -four
20 hl3 Cub Of tns whsstla O-3 or two
relHr,i0ns OF El,llseuars, the idea was
to IA 30 Us Ge1.5 4slr IS rEssibia "a the
first production and leave q large per-
Cgntng5oI uIiGdliIg3 G.lgrw&rd to be re
CUcea to what is known rs patent dour.
Nowadays the number az reductions va
fies from four to eight or more. Millavs
are now able to grind with a length Of
Tolls equal TO 40 inches per unit of 100
barrels Of -four in "a hours and do good
work.
Recently the ''plansifter'' has step
ped into notice ana is used with a very
great capacity both az a s alpar and as
q flour bolt. The pu-ifer is greatly i'm
proved, varying in size from eight feet
IN length by three N width 20 three feet
square, with the attendant dust catcher.
Many mills creditable to the ingenuity
q tiru builders have been devised to per-
form a number Of operations in very
email space, comprising rolls and sepa-
rators, and also several pairs OF rolls III
one frame. In the wheat cleaning room
the tendency has hcen To use more ma
ciffires than formerly and to clean the
wheat better The flour as il comes
from the reels is now packed with great
rarldity and e~xaGtness, and the bran in
scsao 81 the htfgr mills Is compressed
into half the former space by q machine
that will pack 40 tons "a day.
il sho-t, the whole Improvement has
been on tho line Of smaller machines
with greater capacity, taking less room.
using a shorter road from the wheat bia
70 the iour sack, ard with a reduction
II the amount of power repaired TO make
a barrel Of -four A mill builder
states that in a we'll planned loo barrel
mill a barrel Of flour per $500 0f 9
! horsepower is fair work, while IN /.
l,GD0 barrel mill it Is at abous the rate
OF IS horsepower per Unit OF 100 barrel:
daily capacity .-Chicago Record.