The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-13

cold and that our party of three ex- change 1t for one hot and better cook ca. This little party consisted of Mrs. C' Norman Jones, charming St. Louis woman who will soon be in Montgom- cry the guest of her aunt, Miss Cal houn, and Mrs. Jackson of New York, i who was then visiting her. It was a pleasure to meet Mrs. Rorer and a lit- tie talk on chickens disclosed the fact | that she would scorn to use the chicks we raise, those that must reach such an advanced age before they are large enough to serve for one." The ones we had were as large as a big fryer, yet were cut off at a very tender age. BRILLIANT JAPANESE RECEPTION. A notably brilliant social occasion at the Fair last week was the reception given in the Japanese Foreign Build ing and gardens on Thursday in cele- bration of the 53d birthday of His Im- perial Majesty, Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan. From early morning the 400 Japanese at the Worlds Fair and for that one day the Japanese gardens took first place in interest from the aerodome. No one on terra firma could look in, as the entire gardens were en- closed with bunting ten feet high round which there was all day a human
 
 and striving for a peep inside. The day has both been a religious and festal significance to the Japanese, and they have divided their time be- tween prayers and ceremonies of the profoundest solemnity and publications of the most elaborate and pretentious detail.
 The Imperial gardens and buildings were exclusively for Japanese until noon, and during the forenoon all the Japanese at the Fair, from S. Tegima, the Commissioner-Genera to the hum blest of the geisha girls on the Pike, assembled within the imperial domain, which was sacrosanct to all other races of the world.
 The Japanese flag is a red ball upon white square. It was displayed at the Fair today as never before, for the flags hung about the Imperial Gardens so close together that they formed a verltable hedge.
 Inside were the Japanese, all in gala attire. MT. Tegima, the Commissioner General, wore a uniform In which he had not appeared at the Fair before one typifying his position at home. The secretary of the Commission, N Kan saki, also appeared in a new uniform, and there was not a Japanese among all of them, man, woman or maid, who did not have something new and dressy to wear. The decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun flashed upon many of the coats of the men. and the young men wore silk caps of characteristic Japanese prettiness.
 MT. Tegima got them all together and made an address. He told them 1t was a day to return thanks for many things-for the blessings enjoyed by Japan and her people. He told them they were all doing their duty here, just as the soldier who is fighting for his country far off in Manchuria.
 During the morning the Japanese gave a display of flower fireworks. It was such a display of its kind as had perhaps never been seen in America before. They fired from mortars great bombs which exploded in midair and gave forth floating figures, allegorical and patriotic, some of them of enorm- ous size. They first fired up string of their own flags, then a United States eagle, and then a big and beautiful figure of Columbia. In the gardens they sang the songs of their, country, and they had Wells band there to play for them the "Kimygayo," the Japanese national anthem