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JAPANESE TRAITS. QEEER HABITS AND BKJLIEFS OF AN ORIENTAL PEOPLE. Japanese Babv Houses?Sleeping on "Wooden Pillows?Child Nurses? Buddha in Chtna and Japan ?Buddhism vs. Shintoism. ^ APANESE c h i 1dreu are amusing, says Eli Perkins in the New York Sun. __/\x " -Pf< As the housec are too small to live in t=^r' * during the day. ^the children al 1 7>/_^7 H =2" swarm *nto t h e ?? -y"~~ S ~ street.1* .Japanese c=-^?children never '==^l^^^?=~ think of playine in the house; there isn't room. The house I is a doll's honse, with no chirnnev and no fire except a half pint of charcoal burning in a little earcheu bowl called a habachi. There are no bedsteads, chairs or tables. They all sit and lie on rice straw mats on the floor a* primitively as a Comanche Indifn family. The father and mother have a head rest of wood, but the children he around like kittens. "Don't that hard piece of wood hurt your neck?" I asked. "No. Our tecks arc strong. We are used to it; but, see, there are tive pieces of paper over the wood." In the morning the babies are strapped Hos>ir? nf thft children and turned ?V WUVs vava-? va www loose into the street. Swarms of children can be seen any time in the streets romping and racing, each with a baby strapped to its back. In the midst of If i 'Wi r Qa ' ^(11 HOW .'APAXESn the most exciting games the babies will | be sound asleep, whilj the bigger brother or sister will be running and screaming with laughter. As soon as a baby can walk its mother straps a big doll to its back. This is a sign of mauhood or womanhood, and the baby boy is as proud of his doll as an American j boy is of a pair of high boots; and a girl?oh, mj ! I saw a mother one day stirring some barley which she was boil- | ing for the children, and said: "Why don't ycur husband help you?" 41 Ob, he is too busy." - ' t JS _ Off " Wflat is ne aoingf "He is flying a kite." Those children were laughing and playing with babies oa their backs waeu I snapped my kodak on them. This so frightened them that their faces took on a look of alarm. The Christopher Columbus, George "Washington and St. Patrick of Japaa is Buddha, often called the Daibutsu. His Btatues are everywhere. Tuev confront you like the Madonnas of Raphael in Italy. There are tive colossal bronze statues of this patron saint m Japan, distributed as follows: Kioto, 58 feet high: Nara, 53 feet high; Karaattura, 49 feet high; Hyoga, 48 feet high', and Tokio, 21 feet high. Besides, he is in every Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine in Japato. This statue represents Buddha in a Shinto shrine m Tokio. Underneath him are the Shinto saints or ancestors dressed up like Japanese dogs. He is always the same benign-looking old woman, with earrings and a shining jewel in ins forehead. He seems to say to himself constantly, "lam perfection." Many of these statues were cast from sis hundred to a thousaud ^eare ago. The cbildreu play hide-and-go seek around them and climb up into them, and the birds build nests in poor old Buddha's ear3 and nostrils. No one seems ?o have acy conception of what Buddha is for. He is really the Sphinx of Japan. When I asked N. Amsnomori, the noted Japanese writer and linguist, what was the difference between the Buddhism and Shintoism be said : "Buddhism is a philosophical religion?a very philosopaicil religion. t< is so philosophical tnac the common people can't understand it, and I can't * explain it. It personifies all virtues, ana people pray for these virtues." It is h religion. Buddha is always worshiped in a temple, as a personification of vir- i tue. ; "And Shintoism, what is that?" I | asked. "Shintoism means shrine worship. We don't have Shinto temples. They are shrines or mausolea. A Shiuto shrine b really a burying ground?a place where distinguished ancestors are buried. ' TVe go 10 me ouiuiu suii'-e ?t? >uui i 1 FUNNY JAPANESE CHILDREN. people go to Greenwood Cemetery, with a prayer upou their lips, it is not a religion; it is ancestor veneration. You have this same sentiment when you observe Decoration Day. I have sefln j Americans take off their hats at the first sight of an American flag in Tokio. A Shinto shrine is filled with monuments to illustrious warriors, teacher* and poets. The Sboguns built their own shrine* before they died. They are at Nikko. Tokio, and all 'over Japan. Wheu the people enter these beautiful shrines and stand in the presence of the [ distinguished dead, they reverentially take off their hats, as you do at the tomb of Washington." "You put Buddha in the Shinto shrines too?" I said. 'Yes, Buddha is always there. The Japanese and Chinese all respect Buddha. He was a good ancestor. Many blunder by calling the mausoloa and shrines at Nikko temples. They arp shrines liee the tombs of the Ming Emperors at Pekin. To illustrate: Before the death of the second snogun 01 tne Tokugawa dynasty, he built in Nikko a magQitieent shrine to his father Ievasu. His father's body was carried from Tokio in great pomp, attended by the living Shogun and a representative from the Mikado at Kioto. It is simply a grand monument to the? Tokugawa family. I hear the Vanacrbilts and Goulds and other rich families in America have built mausolea or shrines in Greenwood and Woodlawn. The Tokugawa family after a while became so great that they didn't consider it any honor to even have Buddha in their mausolea. In fact, the family finally removed the Buddhist gongs, bells, prayer books and other paraphernalia."' "Do the people worship the mythological statues in the Buddhist temples?" "Yes, the ignoiant do. They pay money to the priests for the privilege of praying. After praying they throw wads of paper, which they have chewed up in their mouths, at tne statue 01 Buddah. If these wads stick they think their prayers are answered. If they fall llpS!^ QIUT^ 3LEE1'. | olt, the ignorant go away grumbling and j displeased at Buddha." The Shintoites believe id the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, and in the grounds of almost every Shinto shrine is a wall-eyed white horse. It has growu restless from being tied up and overfed by the people, and stands i | I NmnT" '""llt^Snliliiiii, I I mwWW I I A JAPANESE STATUE OF BUDDHA. there wild-ejed and swaying like tho wolf or hear iu the zoological garden. Every worshiper imagines that the old horse contains the soul of some dead aunt, uncle or father. How to Dry Rubber Boots. Rubber boots which have become wet inside, either from exoosure.or perapiraW EFFKCTIVR WAY TO PHY RUBBF.It BOOTS. tion are dangerous to wear until dried i out, and this is often a difficult task; mj?ny wear cork soles which can bo taken out and dried, others fill their boots with hot oats at night, and others shake hot gravel in them to dry them out, hut all these plaus arc only partly successful. The illustratiou presents another plan which has the merit of being quicklv accomplished, effective and new. A lamp is set on the floor, the boot is tied j to the back of a chair, low enough so j that the chimney extends well up into j the boot leg, the btmp is lighted and i turned up. The hot air yoes just where it is needed and dries the boot:?American Agriculturist. * " Miss Adelaide Utter is Clerk of the United States Circuit Court at Kansas City, Mo.; Miss M. Latham is Cierk of the United States District Court at Springfield, Mo., Mrs. M. M. Kin^land is a Commissioner of the United States Circuit Court in St. Louis (where Phoebe Couzins served as Incited States Marshal) ; and a woman holds by election the I -a: C /-I ... Ti.eno n nn?ntr. uuiue ?l V/VUIltjr ui ??uoum vuumj, Missouri. A Chicago widow has sued a man for $50,000 for having told her husbaad to jump in the river, which he did. THE REALM OF FASHION. WHAT TO WEAK AND HOW THEY MAKE IT. The Time For Capes.?Be Careful to Avoid Giving a Darwinian Suggestion. JiVUT V ERE we are again at V1J the time for capes, ;II an(*amo<^'SQ oneiB J[JJ Bhown, back and front, in these pic\ tures. It is a double vCf cape with embroidery trimmings. The model was in gray x?T , cloth with trimmings of black velvet and Mj 11^^^ 1 ribbons. The double $ I cape is pointed at the - \l- r~=- back and goes down - ll " to the edge of the ^ pelerine, diminish' ing in breadth. The Vhasadonble collar, quilted and sewn back onto the U, which is fastened in front. The edge of the cape is ornamented by a ruche of scalloped cloth. The collars are edged with black velvet. The cloth V is trimmed with velvet ornaments which are sewn on. You will observe that it has no dangling ribbons. That is a whim already by gone. It is doubtfnl if under any circumstances the fashion of a brace of ribbons ? I ? or a long rope of beads depending from the point of the bodice in the back, iB graceful. Possibly, when the ribbon or bead rope float* off on the descending wave of the train it looks well, but when the train is held up and close around the -knees, and when, as often happens, the rope of beads escapes and hangs alone and forlorn from the prominent drapery, when it floats all by itself in the breeze, and the observer getting a profile view of the wearer, sees, oh, STYLISH DIXSER GOWN. Heaven! daylight between the dependent ornament and the wearer, then what docs it look like? Why, nothing but a tail. The fashion might delight a Darwin's soul, hut in the ordinary human the suggestion of monkey ancestry is clearly enough sot forth by tne general wearer without this particular advertisement. M|J? IKPrtOR GOWX. The prevailinp modes this fall will undoubtedly continue to draw inspiration from the early and late French epochs. For young girls nothing could be more becom- i ing than the empire gown, somewhat modified to suit modern nations. For other persons the Henry II collarette, plastron and I upper sleeves in four pufl's will be much uf- | fected. I The very stylish dinner gown pictured in I the illustration is in beige cloth, the corsage and border of skirt being embroidered with | motives in terra-cotta. A laco bertha is j crossed in front and drawn over the hips and tied in a large bow at the back. This winter ladies who take pleasure in entertaining will dispense tlieir hospitality in the guise of luncheons, which have this advantage that they serve to display the beauty of table linen and service quite as effectually as a ceremonious dinner, but don't cost half as much, and are a great deal more enjoyable. As a rule at these luncheons the gentlemen are conspicuous by their absence, a fact which prompts* the hostess to make the affair dainty, delicate and particularly leminim ? an arranjiemem in pinV or a symphony in pale blue. Gowns should harmonize, at least in the exclusion of all glaring effects. The picture shows a gown suitable for such an occasion in strip ed veiling, the SKirt being finished with o ruching and tlie corsage ornamented with a deep lacc collar not forming part of the dress, and draped in the graceful manner indicated. The straight collar is also covered with lace. A broad ribbon sash completes the dress. The wide empire belt will be among the season's novelties. It is usually of gold embroidery, and the deep, tight-titting cuffs are of the some material, meeting the very full upper sleeves at the elbow. Lace garniture will continue to be very popular for indoor gowns, in the shape of tiny figaros and broad collars, as shown in the picture. This charming garment, which is in the nature of a tea or reception fnwn A LTJSa toy GOWX. is in yellow satin, front and sleeves of white crepe, and ribbon ruching to correspond with the satin. The skirt in front is edeed with a double flounce of point d'esprit tulle, and the flounce is set off with a deep collar of cream lace. WORDS OF WISDOX. Make the home attractive. Necessity is its own justification. Nature is the mother of tragedians. Crumbs saved are pleasures purchased. It pays to investigate and experiment. The mind that is unfed is also un* stored. Where there is no hopt there can be no endeavor. ' Fate never exhausts its resources?nor life its surprises. Solitude cherishes great virtues, and destroys little ones. The more perfect the jewel the more deplorable the flaw. One's greatest cruelty is usually practiced upon one's self. Happiness is liko caloric in it disposition to seek a conductor. Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so. It is a rare philosopher who never departs from his own philosophy. . If nature abhors a vacuum she is equally lutolcrant of a surplus. There is always room for a man of force, and be makes room for many. Pride U essential to a noble character, and the love of praise is one of the civilizing elements. Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in wdich that character affects our own interests and passions. An undertaker at Louisville, Ky., recently opened a coffin buried sixty years ago, and found the body perfectly preserved. W. D. Walton, of Petersburg, Vf., recently coughed up a rainie ball which was tired into his armpit at the b ittle of Spottsylvania Court House during the war. Suicides or Soldiers. The Journal of the American Statistical Association gives some curious facts concerning the number of suicides in the ranks and more especially among the officers of all the great European power.?. The Austrian army takes the lead in this matter. From 1875 to 1887 a yearly average of 122 suicides is recorded foe every 100,000 effective troops. In 1889 the number was 148. Death by suicide represents a fifth part of the whole mortality of the Austrian army. No disease is more deadly. The Germans report about half tne number; the Italian army about one-third; the French army about one.fourth; the English army in the home seivice about one-sixth; the rate in the Russian army is nearly the same, while in the Spanish army it is least of all. There are some curious facts about these suicides. In the European armies, especially in Austria, it is the [ young soldiers who kill themselves during the first month of their scrvicc. Suicides are the most frequent among the cavalry and infantry, and in the latter among the soldiers who arc accused I and awaiting trial. I The most frequent method is s'motinj, I though hanging and drowning are fre| quent methods. The infantry use fireI arms and usually aim at their ue.ids. The mounted soldiers hang themselves by their horse bridles. The Algerian soldiers i almost always shoot themselves throu jii the body, perhaps because the Arn?n think is is infamous to mutilate the head. In Austria a third of the suicides are attributed to a distaste for military duty; in France, love trouble is a very | frequent cause; the fear of pun's.iment I is everywhere a great incentive. The ?. ? ?. ?f -\aA in tliP mii&IIIlU(U Ul OUH.IUM IUI(VUW?4 owv hottest weather, and the minimum is reached in the coldest wvaMer. The late Mr. Buckle affirm? 1 as a law of I civilizitioa that tuere is a periodic regularity in the suicide mania, ami this I testimony of the suicides in the E.iropeau armies goes far tc confirm it. ___ The Princess Louise has bad made a papier mache model of herself, upon which her dressmaker fits and ties on all her dresses. This saves lots of trouble, and the dressmaker can give the dummy a bit of her mind occa sionally without being in danger of dismissal. ml wonder wny it is." said old Tobe to his wife, "that women prefer drowning and men shooting in case of suicide?" "I suppose," she replied, as she thoughtfully contemplated his nose, "that it is because men hate water so."?Detroit Frei Press. Somethiig New iu sLaars. It is not often that an apparently usef"1. innovation in the ait-of scissor or shear manufacture i6 heard of and doubtlers for that reason we have become apt to consider these indispensable adjuncts to civilization as probably unimprovable instruments. In a new kind of shears which has been brought on the market by an ingenious mechanician, the cutting blades are connected by a capsule, in which a simple lever movement on the closing of the instrument, causes the one blade to be drawn under by the other. The lower cheek then acts as a support, and the upper cheek as a knife, which severs the object on the support. Coinwa*a<^ ?nUU 4Via enioo Am a yaicu nrjbu IUU ui IUUUUA ov/ioo\jio u UJU^U greater efficiency is claimed for the new form of shears.?Iron. It Mnken a Difference Whether you dost' a patient with a quack nostrum or a legitimate, scientific preparation. One ruins the constitution, the other miilds it up. Dr. Hoxsie'a Certain Croup Cure for all acute attncks to throat and lungs U a dietinguithtd scientific preparation, and is a sure cure. Sold by druggists. 50c. Address A. P. Hoxsie, Buffalo, N. Y. The youngest member of the British House of Commons is twenty two years of age; its oldest is on the shady side of ninety. To Yuimir VVItci. A (lisapvointed bachelor has said that some time after marriage a man's wife c;ases to be supreme y attractive to him. Never was a greater libel. Beauty preserved and grace retained can never lose their charm or yield their empire. The preservation of our bodfes in their nriirinnl h<>nlr hv wrtertion and comeliness is a sacred duty, fivery younu mother who will faithfully carry out tae directions given with each bottle of "Mother'9 Friend" will never lose figure or complexion. The dainty bud will mature into the blooming rov, and old age will find her blessing the day she first used "Mother's Friend." Brad tie Id Reg. Co., Atlanta, Ga. S?id by all druggists. Have Yon Asthma? Dr. R. Schlffmann, J-t. Paul, Minn., will mail atrial package of >chittmann's Asthma Cure free to any sufferer. Gives Inst ant relief in worst cases and cures where otuera rail. Name this paper and send address. Conductor E. D. Loomis, Detroit, Mich., says: "The effect of Hall's Catarrh Cure It wonderful." Write bim about it. Soid by Druggists, 76c. S&k. Wonderful r ifrti Jacob A. Kunkel, a r?? C?fc. M liable farmer of Mount J, TjZi Royal, York Co.,Pa>,cayfl $]/ that a running sore brok* y r oat on the leg of hla nephew, Milton A. KunEX^^^kel, when he Was 5 years MHWold. He conld net walk. Milton A. Knnkel. Two years ago they began giving him Hood'm Sarmaparilla and in a short time the sore healed up, he regained perfect health, and he la now, at 13 yeara, lively and ragged Mr. Knnkel says: "We all conelder his care lUtle nhmrt of a miracle." Hood*a PUIb cure habitual constipation t? restoring action of the alimentary canal. "German I Svfud" V X Two bottles of German Syrup cured me of Hemorrhage of the Lungs when other remedies failed. I am a married man and, thirty-six years of age, and live with my wife and two little girls at Durham, Mo. I have stated this brief and plain so that all may understand. 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An;rao<, etc.; Mt on A reeoe?Cred ble . latory; )S6 on Ancient Human m jua, Here are aouie abbievlat?d ertracta: Light H > UUaru Shuko* eare. t..e gr<-a eat > f all po?l? i?nd V ue itrnuun .>pt?ui*u Airnuui wm uonurijru ui i.tno V iuoerg?page 3US. The fyrumlut are mouun.e. iaJ A 9 ye*r* old?page 527. Sound travel* a; the rule A noun writer <>f ffcb.t ?, ? ?s a (.reek ulavt-, wi.o ila, in Kythology, wax the foou of the GoOh? pane mot oaurr?i?i Lliboo, In 17W, destroyed V __ _ pagr 426. oniou'i TtmpJe wae d<*- X l.t I fc e of a butterfly contains 17,000 A F1 or on eye? page 77. Fonh'H aurface In c " Golden Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age, H Ureeka?page 342. N apoleon,born In W tb America; longont to the world; 4,000 rolled; 1 kulgbtbi 0.1. intthuted 1344?132. Amncona m a km In Asia, renowned for bis great wealth? H il 6uppo*e<l to convert bater irietalb Into gold?117. 3orn >u Vligiina, 17.3; died. 175>0?428. UaMllv wm comi-aM li a magne.lied oecdir. 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