The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-06

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and Venice in the olden time. and remem-
Der, when compared to what they are now,
| they were refined and extremely amusing
! in a light airy way in Paris. The Paris
carnival is, however, civilized compared TO
| EPSON day in London and the British Bank
| holiday.
| COLLECTION OF CARTOONS.
Among the Japan actualites of the hour
are the Assiette au Beurre collection Of
| Japanese cartoons Of caricatural nature.
L'Assiette au Beurre is the slang term for
the Ioaves and fishes of governmental Of
fee. Since the pictorial collection of week
| ly skits first appeared under this name its
| publisher, or author, has given extension
to the meaning of the title.
The spirit is generally socialist biting,
almost explosive. very droll. certainly not
delicate, and always to be clever. 1t
/ opens this week with a cartoon of naked
Jap boy holding Car Nicholas on one OF
his knees and spanking him with the fiat
| of a wooden toy sword. o
The idea can have never entered the
Shinto soul that Nicholas is the divinely
appointed head of orthodox church or
| aught else than a greedy boy who will be
| the better for a good fogsing-and he
| administers the chastisement as might
choleT1c, coarse-grained nurse.
The next page gives Fin. des Negotia
| TONS" in which we see the head of Cos
sack and of Chinese sailor in Russian
| uniform impaled on old-fashioned Japanese
| weapons above the deck of japanese man
| of-war
| In the background are the conical noun
tsins of the far East. On page we
| have En- Cage. an old Japanese woman
holding a cage that contains angry
bear a Gallo cock with all it's feathers ruff
| fled is ready TO fly at the dame, who is a
! curious creature and might have been Gre
| ated to figure on the etagere of a col
| lector of far Eastern curiosities No 4
gives US "Apprivoisie" ('Tamed'O an old
and fan in the other seated on the back
| Of a chimerical bear which is drawing a
! new model cannon bearing the Mikado's
brand.
INTERVENTION IS PUZzLING
The sure, victim is the Emperor of Korea
! intervention is too complex for me to
| understand it, Perhaps the artist wants to
| convey the notion that the upshot of the
fighting will be diplomatic mess and mud
| die that will settle nothing. L do not set
] up to say whether the artist is right or
| wrong in his forecast. But L cannot speak
| too highly of his pictorial talent. This
number of L'Assiette au Beurre is a thing
for hrst-class collection;
| 't1nis' gives US a big fish rising out Of
the Pacific ocean and swallowing the
! bear, even as Jonah was swallowed. Is the
! fish the country OF President Roosevelt or
| of the Mikado? Possibly the answer may
| be given in a future number.
| count and Viscountess Ichijo, cousins of the
| Empress of Japan. l learned from them
| much about her Majesty, who belongs to a
| family OF antique luSter in the province Of
| Kuge. She bears the euphonious name of
| Haru ko, or Springtime. is small, dark, still
| young, though she married the Mikado in
1867, the year before the great japanese
revolution.
Japan had been bulIied five years pre-
| viously by the white race into issuing from
| her seclusion. Up to that year she had
| been seif-contained, satisfied with her man
| ners and customs and had as her wont for
more than 2.Ooo years taken life seriously
| and playfully as If il We're all at bottom q
joke and really OF the stuff OF which dreams
| are made.
The course France, Britain and the
| United States had taken toward the land
| Of the Rising Sun had quickened all the
| pulses of the inhabitants and indeed every
atom in their tissues. The patriotic senti-
| ment blazed up. Japanese love their coun-
| try with fervor, but they did not know how
| deep and strong was their patriotism until
| the white race came upon them in the six
ties.
| n universal, a passionate desire took hold
| of the whole empire-that of throwing back
| invasion and protecting their national in
| stincts and life.
| SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS FOUNDED.
Following the United States, the Empress
with interchangeable energy promoted the or
| ganization of higher and elementary in
struction for girls. In 1S74-note the date
teachers, and soon after an institute for
the education of daughters of noble fam
lilies. She found her professors in France
and the United States. She also created
| or helped to create school for hospital,
| sickroom and ambulance nurses, and il
| may be said without fear OF contradiction
| that kaiserworth does not turn out women
| better qualified for nursing, more skilled
attentive TO hygienical rule, more tactful or
| kindly. She sought her models at Kaiser
| worth and in the English hospitals. and
| had the patriotic satisfaction of hearing
| the highest praise bestowed on her nurses
by the French, English, German and Jap
| anese Red Cross Societies in 1S94-5 and 1900.
Haru ko is the patroness OF a children s
hospital at Toxic She visits it often and
comes like Santa Claus laden with toys
for the little patients She has no chill
dren and had bowed to the law which ena-
bles the Emperor TO find an heir in his Sc
ragiO among his second-class wives.
All the force of her soul runs into the
| discharge of her public and domestic duties.
She had the princes spoken of as imperial
by Admiral Togo brought up carefully ac-
cording 10 the Emperors and her own
ideas, She herself experimenting their edu-
| cation.
Her life at home is. on the whole. soli-
| tary. The Emperor is a very busy man
and the ladies' OF her court are generally
| old-fashioned In their ideas. She lets them
! remain so. The advent of those educated
i'm the institute for daughters of noble fam
lilies will bring with il another atmosphere
| and all Will be well in the long
EMPRESS FAVORED MOVEMENT.
History has no other example of a nation
al rising in favor OF what was new and a
revolutionizing OF institutions for u con-
sentative purpose. Nobody went with more
| ardor into the movement than the young
Empress who shrewdly saw that IL the
women were not brought into line with the