The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 10, 1904, Page 6

A DUBIOUS JAP "DELICACY. An American's First Tagte of the Fa- vorite Raw Fish and Wasabi of Nippon. The Japanese are very fond of fish—' they like it pickled, they like it ¢d . they like it canned, they like it freshly cooked and they like itraw. With this last taste we of the occident find it bard to sympathize; yet at least one Amer- ican has been converted to its ac- ceptance,” says Mr. Harold Bolce has recently related how he was skilfully and gently urged along the difficult path of experiment by the Japanese author and diplomat, Mr. Tumio Yano. “One night at the Nippon club,” says | Mr. Bolce, “he led up to a delicate sub- Ject on the menu with much diplomacy. He finally got my assent to the state- ment that a cosmopolitan appetite is one of the distinguishing marks of culti- vated travel. Then he passed me raw fish. “I confessed that I was willing to be 8 stick-in-the-mud or any other variety of Silurian rather than take place with the international elect by eating such a dish. My host, however, was painfully insistent, finally adding that with raw fish they, of course, ate wasabi. Now I did not have even a vague notion of what this might be, but with that raw proposition before me it was comfort- ing to know that at least it was to be diluted with something. I figured out. also, that, with my awkwardness with chop-sticks, I might manage, without exciting suspicion, to drop the fish be- fore the fatal moment, and eat only the mysterious we i But whether through cowari or courage, I cannot say, fish and relish made quick and . simulta journey to my reluctant palate that never-to-be-forgot- ten inst ere flashed into my con- sciousness the unceniable truth that ir all my occidental years T had been de- nied one of the most savory dishes in the world. : “Charles Lamb's Chinaman had jubi- lant delight over his first taste of roast pig; but that fsa ceeraded passion com- pared with an Anglo-Saxon's initial ecstasy over an oriental morsel of raw namasu garnished wigh the roots of Eutrema wasabi.” Raw fish anyone who desires to try the same experiment need not import; he need only—a very large only—learn to like it, and perhaps he will not need to import the wasabi either, {n a short time, for experiments are being made * with a view to growing it in America. It is a valuable condiment with other dishes than fish, and is a source of much ‘ profit to Japanese farmers, The plant belongs to the mustard family, and can be grown in molst sofl or in running water, like cress, an acre of land often ylelding two tons of the edible root Curry and chutney came from the east long ago; soy sauce js fast following: now wasabi is on the way. Perhaps it is the cooks of the orient, rather than our own, who wil! finally redeem our race from the reproach of the famous French epicure who thoueht little of English civilization because, although | {t had 21 forms of religion, it had but one sauce. NERVOUSNESS, OF WOMEN. English Writer Says They Are in Gen- eral Stronger Than Ever Before, Women of the present day are said to be more nervous than women at any previous period. This of course is largely the opinion of pessimists ex- pressed in an exaggerated manner, says the London Daily Expr Undoubted- ly the woman of to- suffers from “nerves.” But this has always been a common complaint among women at all times. The last generation was neu- rotic, other generations had insistently convenient attacks of “megrims.” The pessimist never wearies of enlarg- ing upon the strain and stress of mod- ern life, the rush of travel, the restless- ness of great social centers, the incessant poaching on the hours of the night, the eternal increase in the number of work- on women be greater than ever, the fact that they are able to endure it proves an increase in nervous power rather than a decrease. The woman who works for her living to-day has far stronger nerves than her predecessors ever possessed. She stands the strain year in and year out; the women of a few generations ago could not have stood it for a month. It 1s also fucile to point to the rush of modern travel as a nerve-destroying force. At the present day there is less i nervous waste in crossing a continent Hi than there was a hundred years ago in a journey from London to Bath in the stuffy interior of a lumbering coach. Where among the women of old whose nerves are so lauded could we find the : woman who could drive a motor car without tremor through a street crowd- ed with traffic? The most competent ; authorities declare that never in the history of the race has so excellent a type of woman been evolved as the av- erage woman of to-day. A Final Philosopher. “That feller Jones is a philosopher, sure enough.” “Think 80?” “IT know it. Cyclone come ‘long an’ blowed his house cown; then a airth- quake swallered his lan’; an’ what do you reckon he done inen?” “Lord knows.” “Thanked the Lord that he didn’t « have nuthin’ left to pay taxes on!”—At- lanta Constitution. A Careful Father. . “James, our son Arthur is coming % back from the dental college this week, and. he wants to practice on some “Well, you can let him have that old saw hanging up in the garret, if he'll E own not to break the teeth off.”— Journal, ~ Youth’s Companion. | NO DOLLARS FOR “JACK.” DAME FASHION’S FOIBLES. | INDIAN BABIES’ CRADLES. Brother William Got Them by the’ Dressy Details of Some Costumes De- | Wastous Modes of Wrapping Up the ' Barrelful, But the Artist Went Home Penniless. When the Irish poet, W. B. Yeats, was in America, rumors of the great success he was making here with his; lectures reached his Irish home, and these stories were not lessened by the distance they traveled. The poet was simply putting his money away in barrels for the home trip, relates the New York Times. His brother “Jack” determined to pack up and get over here before all the money in America fell to William's share. So “Jack” says, in telling the story. “Jack” is an ¢ortist of no little renown, and in addition to the sar- torial arrangements he annexed his wife and his pictures to his outfit, de- termined to stay long enough to sell ail his pictures, get as much money as William did, and, incidentally, get or- ders, and have a high old time. He did not announce his coming to Brother William. It is a well-known rule in families that if one of the members finds a good thing the others should not interfere. “Jack” was true to his principles in at least keeping his intention of breaking the rule dark, He already saw the facile American dollar in his grasp. He didn’t want to interfere with William's gold mine, but as long as it was wonderfully pro- lific, he felt it only just and right that he should get, his fingers in the ple. When he arrived he discovered that William was already on his way home with the barrels of money in his pos- session, and nobody in America had ever heard of “Jack,” for, apparently, the poet had been too busy with his lectures to take his audience into his confidence concerning the talents of the other members of the family. The picture season was over, there was a plethora of unsolds on the walls of galleries, and the picture buy- ers were on their way across or in their country homes. “Jack,” with ¢anvas and wife, was left high and dry, He told the story to the friends he made with an Irish humor that made them roar, and announced that he was going to pack up and get back before the barrels of money again eluded him, The next outgoing steamer saw “Jack” with face pointed toward the Green Isle. HOUSEHOLD LABOR - SAVER. An Easily Made Contrivance Which Makes an Effectual Cut- lery Cleaner, To do away with the greater part of the fatigue in scouring steel knives and forks, and to secure better re- sults, says Good Housekeeping, try this: Get a piece of smooth hard wood, eight inches long, six inches wide and one inch or one inch and a half thick. Take a piece of old Brus- sels carpet, not very heavy, 16 inches long and seven inches wide, turn it bot- tom up and cut off one inch of width for half its length in such a way thet the piece will be six inches wide on the left half and seven inches wide on the right half, the uneven side be- ing toward you. Lay the carpet, bot- tom up, on the board, the back and right margins fitting exactly and the extra inch of width at the front. Tack the carpet around the margin of the board and tack the extra inch on the edge, putting the tacks at the bot- tom only. In use, dampen the whole wrong side (now uppermost), put the scouring material over it, place the knife or fork on the slab, fold the free portion of the carpet over, and, pressing with che left hiand, push the article back and forth. In this way both sides are polished at once. The manner of pressure can be shifted from the fingers to the palm, at will, preventing nearly all strain on the fingers, and the work is done in a more cleanly manner. To clean the back of the blade, “saw” it on the slab. To clean the butt of the blade, front edge. Forks can be cleaned bet- ter than by the common method— double the carpet in the left hand with the fork inside to: reach the inner edges of the tines. Many adaptations of the contrivance will suggest them- selves after using it a few times, and it will soon prove a “household bless- ing” to any housewife who has many steel knives and forks and has rubbed till her fingers seemed “ready to break off” in the old-fashioned method of scouring. Green Corn Pudding. ’ ‘This is the old Nantucket recipe, and one well worth copying into every fam- fly recipe book. Select short, thick ears of corn, with husks green and tender, silk dark and kernels so juicy that as soon as cut the milk flows freely. Score the rows lengthwise and scrape out the pulp. To two-cups of pulp add two cups of milk, one egg, a_seant third cup of sugar and a level teaspoonful of salt. Mix very thoroughly. Grease a baking dish generously with butter, pour in the mixture and ba’e two and a half hours in a slow ovea.— Washington Star. Broiled Tomatoes. Cut im halves six large tomatoes, scoop out the seeds, sprinkle them over in- wardly with seasoned breadcrumbs, put them fn the double broiler over the fire with the skin set downward and broil them for about ten minutes. When done put them carefully on the dish with small lamps of butter placed here and there, push Into the oven and cook for ten minutes. Serve very ee signed for the Autumn Season. be more accentuated as the season ad- vances, Walking skirts will | ground and jackets will be tight fitting jand long. Whaleboned petticoats are common enough. From these to crinoline proper is not a far cry. There have been introduced of late, from Victorian times, the low shoes that button over at the sides. A fancy has displayed itself for capes and three-quarter coats in a loud check tweed. A lace handkerchief makes an excel- lent jabot by folding it cornerwise, turn- ing the upper point so as to fall a little above the under one. Broadtail velvet, which is really a crushed velvet, is one of the coming stuffs for outer wraps. Soft makes of velours as well as fancy chiffon velvets will be used for dresses, mantles and millinery. Tangerine is one of the new popular shades, says the Brooklyn Eagle. Old fashioned lavender silk, which brides of a half century ago were wont to revel in, again comes fashionably for- ward. Tartan tweeds are quite the latest for autumn tailor-mades in blue and green, brown and yellow, and quiet mixtures, Fringed bias taffeta ruffles are made into charming flat boas for cool even- ings. A prevailing autumnal fashion will be the closely-fitting waistcoats. They are now shown in delicately embroidered muslins and cambrics. As the season advances silk and brocade will be seen in conjunction with smart little cutaway coats, The taffeta gown is an indispensable change from the muslins and laces of summer, Everybody has at least one of these dresses in her wardrobe. The owner of even a bit of real lace is nowadays making the most of her pos- session, for scarcely any costume is seen without some lace decoration, The revived fashion for mounting pre- cious stones in an Invisible setting !s {1- lustrated by sets of safety pins, each in- crusted: with a different storfe arranged in rows, White, putty color and pale gray cloths make the smarter coats; and white cloths with a faint tinge of palest blue, known as zinc white, is extraor- dinarily fashionable. Touches of color are often admitted in narrow cuffs and revers, NEEDS ACCOMPLISHMENTS. They Are Indispensable to the Girl Who Wishes to Be a Social Favorite. Not only has the girl who wishes to be a social favorite need of accom- plishments, but either she or her brother will find a business career pro- moted sometimes by their judicious assistance, Accomplishments may “soothe one’s hours of ease,” and therefore alone they serve their pur- pose, says Harper's Bazar. But be- yond this they help one in novel ways; they are the means to an end, sometimes. No beginner in business can afford to be called a butterfly; on the other hand, if one is remark- ably proficient at dancing, in music, even at skating or boating or in most games of skill, such knowledge may win attention and notice that is of value. One might recommend (be- yond exercise which health requires) more atteniion to whist than to any of these, having seen both young men and women “railroaded” by their el- ders into enviable positions, simply because they were not fitted for them —that would not have been sufficient —but, as well, because they played a | fine game of whist. Nothing in the way of an accomplishment so attracts the admiration of men of weight. A knowledge of several languages i one’s education, scarcely an “extryg® and its worth is recog- nized. But any capability that calls attention, without parade, to one- self is of value also. A Chicago mil- lionaire once advised a young lawyer to join a certain golf club. The law- yer replied that he could not afford the necessary expense. “You cannot afford to neglect the chance,” was the astute rejoinder. “Practice any economy rather than that. The friends you will make among the magnate members will pay all your expenses many times over.” Why They Eat Them. “And why,” we said, pausing before the disguised Igorrote, “did you take up the horrible and degrading practice of dog eating?” “Mihzt! Bnuvg!” he exclaimed, fir- ing up with passion. “Before we left home we received tips that the beef and pork packers’ strike would oc- eur!” Seeing that he was in no mood to be trified with, we left him, firmly convinced, however, that he was more to be pitied than censured.—Indian- apolis Sentinel. Bean and Celery Soup. Soak one pint of navy beans for 24 hours, then simmer of the oack of the coal range over night. Take two stalks of celery, cut it fine, cook it half an hour with the beans then Press celery and beans through a co lander. Heat one quart of beef ‘stock, add the puree and cook together for |} It is rumored that the waist line will | ‘their love. 15 minutes, stirring constantly.—Good |! ceeping. : Little Red Skins So That They Thrive. Fancy a tiny copper-colored pappoose ; buckled up snugly in a queer buckskin | bag that resembles nothing in nature so just touch the much us the cozy cocoon cradle of a baby butterfly, and then draw upon your imagination still further, pictur- ing this odd receptacle swinging from the leafy canopy of an Indian wickiup or brush arbor, and you have before you an Indian baby and his wonderful cradle, says the Los Angeles Times. Gorgeous yellow butterflies and brown Kiowa babies are seldom linked together in song or story; yet in real life their wrappings, while in the chrysalis state, bear a remarkable resemblang to each other, The cocoon cradle proper and its va- rious modifications as found among the different tribes of North American In- dians are constructed from the skins of animals. And right here we may pause and trace the origin of another family nursery rhyme to the Indian cocoon cradle. For did not the father of Baby Bunting go a-hunting to get a little rabbit's skin to wrap that myth- ical baby in? All full-blood Kiowa babies are born into the Philo-li-yo-ye, or Rabbit Circle, and are taught to dance jn the mysterious Circle of Rab- bits as soon as they learn to toddle, belonging to the Rabbit Order of Kiowa soldiery, Hence a rabbit skin would be a very appropriate wrapping for a Kiowa Baby Bunting, though neither large enough nor strong enough for his cradle. The red deer of the forest, quarry of the red-skinned hunter, gives of his beau- tiful covering to make the cradle that is to swing from the treetop, literally treetops cut from the cottonwoods and elms that fringe the clear little streams rippling through the Kiowa reservation, and piled high on a framework of poles, to serve as a “summer parlor” in front of his father’s tepee. The crude deer hide is carefully dressed by a tedious and secret process known only to these Indians, and when finished is as soft and pliant as the most expensive chamois skin. Then loving fingers skillfully embroider with quills beautiful beadwork designs upon the delicately tinted deerskin. Kiowa cradles are more ornamental than those of other tribes, and Kiowa squaws exce! in that marvelous Indian beadwork now the popular fad of their paleface sisters. Some of this beadwork embroidery is not only very beautiful, but very alabo- rate. The Sioux squaws, who alone rival their Kiowa sisters, ornament the cradles of their little ones with bands of deerskin, upon which are wrought, in colored beads, gorgeous patterns of men, horses, birds, fish and flowers. In- stead of a wooden framework, they sub- stitute a basketwork frame of reeds and sometimes they use seed and grasses instead of beads, The Cheyenne, Apache and Comanche Indians all use cocoon cradles, pat- terned after the Kiowa cradles, but theirs are not ornamented as elaborate- ly as those of the Kiowas. In truth, the erim and warlike Comanche of the vlains wastes very little time in deco- rating the receptacle of his offspring. A stout piece of deers’in, fastened to an equally stout wooden frame and laced up securely with rawhide thongs, suffices his simple need, MODERN WAYS IN JAPAN. Except for Being Demonstrative the People Are Much Like Westerners, “Ladies in Japan do not wear jew- eled rings.” I wish to correct that into “Ladies of old Japan,” etc. If you but try to look at a tiny hand of any girl in a well-to-do family of present- day Japan—a hand coming out of a scarlet-lined sleeve—you will easily find a jeweled ring or rings on her fingers. Jewels we had none before but we prize them just the same, says Sakor Shiago, in London Tape, As o the wearing o ngs men are often seen with a thick gold ring nmiade ont of an old Jananese coin called “koban.” The study of the introduction of a new cusiom is interesting. In the case of “snow- white pillows,” they were first used in hospitals, where we adopted every- thing from the west as it was. We did not have sheets for our beds along with that, but cleanliness recom- mended itself to the Janonese, and the custom was readily followed by those who took a fancy to it. As to kissing, iteis rather delicate to touch on, but it cannot be dismissed with a general statement that “in affection and love the Japanese are outwardly undsm-n- strative.” All depends upon cirenm- stances. . Generally sveai:ing, we chon the eyes of the public to be demon- strative, or to seek the oceysion when all can join with us. Kissing as prac- ticed in the west is still strange tn us, but no one who knows about it would wonder if a young couple of modern Japan should take to it to express Grilled Lion Steaks. An explorer who has often by com- puision eaten the flesh of anima's not generally used as human food at’ grilled lion steaks are delicious and much superior to those of the tiger; that the flésh of rhinoceros, properly prepared, has all the good qualities‘of pork; that the trunk and ree splendid substitute for rabbit, ne He Se ar to aay Couldn’t Deliver the Goods. vs feet of young elephants resemble veal, and that stewed boa constrictor is a culture is a ee Oe | | CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought IN} ANIS, “CHILDREN Promotes Digestion Cheerful- ness and Rest.Contains neither on Wines nor Mineral. T NARCOTIC. Use For Over Thirty Years — SCASTORIA . Bates oor" tes County Investment Co, Aperfect Remedy for Cons! Ben. S Sour Stomach, Diarrhoca ee Worms Convulsions Feverish- ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of } BUTLER, MO. Capital, = = 830,000. Money to loan on real estate, at low rates, Abstracts of title to all lands and town lote in Bates county, Oholee securities always on hand and forsale, Abstracts of title furnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate papers drawn, . J. B, New: ™ He 3 Bo als ¥. J. Treanp, 3.0. Jno. C, Harus, Abstractor. AyerS Pills Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black? Use To Try an Army Officer. Leavenworth, Kan., Nov. 83—A general court msrshal with Colonel Ralph Hoyt, Twenty-fifth infantry av president, and Captain John P. Haines, artillery corps, as Judge advocate, is to convene at Fort ; Leavenworth this afternoon to try First Lieutenant H. F Dalton, Sixth infantry now a student officer at the infantry and cavalry school. It is said that Lieutenant Dalton is charged with carleseners and neglect in handling of company funds last summer. Another charge is that he used government lumber for private eer in his home and did not BUCKINGHAM’S DYE - DRUGGISTS ORR P. HALL & 00., NASBUA, N, B, Asks New Trial On Strange Grounds. Omaho, Neb., Nov. 5—In a mo- tiou foranew trial of a suit for damages in which, eeveral days ago, @ jury awarded the plaintiff, John 'p, Connolly, a verdict for $27,500, the Union Pacitic Railway company, through its attorney, set up that Lee 8. Estelle, the district Judge who presided at the first trial of the case, was too friendly and spoke {i too endearing terme to the plaintiff. “How are you feeling this morning, old man? the defendant company alleges Judge magyar: — to Connolly, and “Hello boy.” It is also alleged that the judge was seen to put bis arm over the shonlder of the plaintiff and pat him on the back in an “undignified and unjndicial manner,” that he once handed him a magazine to rei H A. ‘White of the department of law of the stuff college, will defend Lieutenant Daiton. Iv is said he will plead guilty to most of the charges CABTORIA read and that he urged him: to go Bears the Tho Kind You Have Aways Bougtt | over to a church and get a good aa is dinner,which was being served there. - Tt is charged that these things clearly showed the judge’s partiality for the plaintiff. A SAW MILL. And all Kinds of Lambie: Wood and Posts. Have just started a sawmill on the Widdlecombe land, near. Papinville, Have 300 acres of fine timber be sawed into anything you want, Keep plenty of all kinds ot t in the yards. A apecialty of framing bridge timber, sheeting and | alding. ‘j Plenty pees sia cord Also wish to let the 300 Acres Think England Was Bested. Berlin, Nov. 5.—The general opinion here is that Russia has so far had the beat of England iu the affair which followed the North sea incident, and that it has been pro- ven to all the world that England, ;@ usual, is always ready to play a ame of bluff, but is afraid of back- ing np its words with deeds. When the first news of the firing by the Raseian fl-et on peaceable fishermen became known everybody was eympathizing with England, but when that country evidently thought that the time had come to take ad- ‘Vantage of Russia’s present diffi- culties to show the world the enor- mous power of England, the German people turned away in disgust. wood for ele,