The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-06
IDEA FOR "YELLOWS"
SUNDAY DINNER PREPARED FOR
NICKEL.
Editorial Writer Wrote Following
Clever Piece About the Sunday "Yel-
lows" that Print the Magic Pictures

The new journalism, in spite of all its
boosted prOgressiveness in supplying
novelties to it's readers, Is really not
at all speedy in realizing its opportuni-
ties. Take, for instance, the way in
which the natural outgrowth of the
paint box or magic color sheets has
been overlooked. These pages, it will
be recalled, supply blank outline pic
lures and little dabs of various Colors
which, when moistened, serve in way
the same purpose as blocks of paint,
though they are harder for the child to
eat. Another form of this page gives
monochrome pictures which when soak
ed Cor licked with the tongue) burst
forth on the astonished gaze in multi
tinted glory. The tongue by the way
does admirably and many tenement
families have found these pictures quite
nourishing for the babies, and the death
rate has doubtless been lowered there
by.
Now. from the reaction of such art to
that of domestic science is but a step,
and yet the Sunday "yellows" have
failed entirely to appreciate this line Of
public utility What would be easier
than for the Fooled" or "Diurnal" TO
get out a really nourishing edition or
sort of dispensary issue? For example,
would anything be simpler than to
print the picture of soup bone with
extracts of beef and vegetables instead
of ink? The family buying the paper
could thereupon boil the page and make
a nutritious dish of COnSomme for the
entire household at a most reasonable
cost. The soups could be varied from
time to time, turtle, chicken, oyster,
celery, cream of asparagus, and what
not else-all giving excuse for beautiful
illustration. Again, the paper could get
tip I'm
pregnated with baking powder and il
Illustrated with luscious griddle cakes.
All that would be necessary would be
to soak this sheet, cut it out-an
amusement for the children-and fry it
on a fire made out of the rest of the
paper In the spare corners, pictures
tinted with chocolate or coffee extract
would supply necessary beverages when
properly STEPPED in hot water. To sup
ply seasoning, pepper could be used in
stead of periods in the directions. These
are but few of the dishes which would
lend themselves to this type of journa-
lism.
In other departments of the house,
hold the work of the newspaper could
be extended widely. A soap paper
could be printed for the laundry, a
sticky fly-paper edition for the kitchen,
as well as a al-oil-impregnated sheet
LII llie CbOh " use III EXPLOSIONS, q
1ower-seed supplement might be added
for the garden, and this would lead TO
burying these papers-not a bad idea,
even if nothing sprouts.
In the nursery and sick-room the pa
per could be made most effective. Ina
CINE the benefits of a cough syrup bot
tie pictured by means of some good
mixture! One lick and a cold is cured.
Tonics quinine, fiavoring extracts, me-
dicinal teas and many other things
could be provided in attractive form.
The white page and blue page would
make a literary Seidlitz powder A
yellow page would do for a mustard
plaster, black page for court plaster,
and so on ad infinitum. 1t is a great
scheme and one admitting of many va
riations, but the new journalism is
pretty slow after all. Still, here's the
suggestion-free for the benefit of the
l5,OOO,OOO subscribers of enthusiastically
Evening Post.