Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-27
ANGLo.J JAPANESE SIGNS.

DUTY. asks the Iowa FAILS Citizen.
AhGL0.JAPANEsE SIGNS.
A constant source of amusement 10
the travelerin japan, says Rev. Francis
IE.. Clark in the September Century, are
THE Anglo-Japaness 81 gns over the shop
doors.
In the larger cities many shopkeep
ers' have applied8to u sign painter who
mas acquired that dangerous thing, a
little knowledge OF English. Without
thinking deep at the Pierian spring, for
sningle that saall express toBHthc
world in western characters the nature
|of their business The assurance of
these sign painters issnpt matched by
their familiarity with English spelling,
construction, MOODS and lensea;; and the
result is often amusing in he extreme
For Instance, one IL, amazed to see in
Toxic a sign that boldly announces
a TAILOR CIT TO ORDER.
Another one informs us
PHOTOGRAPHER ts EXECUTED
HERE.
A halter in Kobe announces that he
sslls
GENERAL SORT STRAIN HAT,
ard another informs the public that he
iasa
DEALER NEWANDSTII.I SHSTR.AyN-
HAT WILL MAXI. O&ORDlsR.
Some of the signs really. seem to sug-
gest needed English woiis, like
i3UTCfiETsY AND PROVISIONS.
Why not "butchery Anotller tells us
that he deals in
SOFT GOODS.
He does not mean soft drinks either,
but soft woollen goods "A baker tells us
that ile keeps a
B.AISE.TRY.
Another sign which j daily passed for
usarlya Week told tilcMorld that With
IN dWsit
TIE INVENTOR OF lloBE,
tho what he invented, or when, or why.
deponent saith not. A merchant in
osaka has hung gu, his shingle With SUI
l,sssilueus artieles.sas fplloWs
P-ATENirS THE &GsIi.Aisssfi M PATENT
TIE POCKET STONE.
he cunjunGtions ARE almost as diff
cult for the average sisil paiatef TO
ma stei, Consequently he sometimes
tells the world of a
HOlisI. SHIP AND PAINTER,
or shaf NAtilin there isti9i sale
IfINli.tsN gIsto1sI)lsls AND.
y glance at the iiiles saotguna ard
powder hcans Within makes the sig II
plain Another tells. a, that
Ble'A-lsl-E &c, t.ieSE5, Sell. AND
are VI ti1tH. II is'alEot Strange that single
ietteis sitoula - gu II u as, in
I;HsI ~ Is.i.Slo
MEALS AT ALI. HOI7S I.,
IS ign RAND .Nssi9 o,Iei4sRI.TI,ED.
and tha like, ISIS Il does :. Gin ass!f a
iss with kaan lsse 81 hnnlaf had
spesrl work When sSe read. = v { DO ii.
~ prominent sife 81 Osaka.
f.I;: NJ \ NJ MASH.
l'Rt the Ia 81 Sgltapie first and you Viii
catch. the though a Mag 100. nll,s,
have prepared tae abel for d aeaier il
t'2ttsX, y liz, aftsr tsNtaiiilag the purity
ard educ ot his prs ps.atien, i1,t iii
Sliti,se tteis q the bottom
Rl.NAIsE QlsR TRADEMARKS,
i9af'ians inc most startling milk sign
III Japan Isl
IS CONS MIXED AND #RETAII.ED.
Wflish, il mis- stalks no;.is to#b9 found ii
+ iSit9ta Cloth dealers also hays haim,t
little dlitleusty Iii making kfoMn theii
VA ffs' iitstt. 1, onpsof their signs
SILK IilsAlI' COTTON AND SEVER
AL HAIRS. SEVERAL. SINsi1s
YARN
REAL E;sitIf a II. LONE AND COR
Risf7l,l,Se. AGIsNd,4
aianeasa 10 ptkl9. II place, perhaps, 10.
bad boys ana girls,
Pubic sslei3ss ans notices are often us
( amusing as ttle sliop signs For III
s1stlles fine THAI appears on ne Nh,
III, the famous l9liaf Il at Yekohaina:
ilI is F'e,ltRiiol}tsN 10 THROW tn i:
ST9esI. a NAN is BEING
WOE NIoED.
5ir9baplN in sltilr pas, year 4 s.o,l,
+ 'sifo@tl oytr tilts bank hit a pas1sf-fDy
: but the liian Is sstlit being Wounded. A
q temple it}nf VI l4ad:
ALI. TIL lsitsDR ARE NOT AL
4 LOW TO ENTER THIS TENIPLH. +
PUTTING IN THEIR SHOE.
4 Hence of &olfisc took off our shoe
pied the following from a poster 81,
4 tfs SIDE g + ilanseiii a little fishing vii
a l4se on the sslfle Of the Inland SEA:
/ 70 LET 81 RIA y lDsI y IsfsAC Gil WHEN
i f9I LIKE. / WILL DID AWAY
FROM STREET AND WILL
TAKEN DIlsTY COTTAGE.
II Oh mature dGlifeTaiion Of several sa v
ants il waa ds5.idea that the oWiae
1 meant g s''4y that II we4rented his lot o,
i the beach h. would move his nous.
from the street and also take. away Ia,
dirty cottage that now encumberee
his ground
II .sa4A i.