Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1891, Page 10

sere THE EVENING roor STAR: sf ror oe WASHINGTON. NATION AT PLAY. teresting Description of the Chil- dren in Japan and Their Games. f PARADISE OF BABIES y® Set Apart as Feasts for Boys and Girlx— How the Juveniles Enjoy Themselves on ‘These Oceasions—Kite Flying and Top Spin- ning—The Multitude and Variety of Toys. Written for The Evening Star. (HE MOST DELIGHTFUL THINGS IN Japan are the children. Taken as whol don’t think one finds such delightful chil- anywhere elve in the world. For to the saty and grace of childhood, they add the jishness, the playfulnese and the gentleness puppies or kittens. They are just as self-pos- They are always ideally dressed and have a iderable amount of actual beauty, as well quaintness in their little faces, as round and a8 a ripe plum. To begin with they have relous complexions, clear brown skins, as with a rich damask red on cheeks. And they have the loveliest Hrosebuds of mouths and the whitest teeth, gen- very regular, though small. They have beautiful little hands and feet, with a clear skin, slender, well-formed, “‘aervous” and toes and remarkably good nails. matside these points, they are beautifully ly, or quaint. Their queer little hickory mute of heads are shaved, all except one little tuft of jet black hair at the top of the head, or over exch ear. And their eyes are like black beads, with hard ebina whites twinkling-behind narrow slits. [shor have the fonsieet little enubs of nosesand plump and puppyish figures. The fonts ove ry dress their children in Strictly Japanese style, in the most becoming ‘elothes, just as they exhaust their ingenuity in inventing games and toys for them. ‘Their dress has always a plentiful admixture of red. Ked is the color of youth in Japan, butonm grand occasions one must go te the rainbow, or the kaleidoscope, or fireworks to find a parallel. ‘The general effect is that of a Jong gown open down the front, with long Soose deeves a2 s broad sash at the waist. The little girls who are apprenticed for the profes sion of gelshe (singing gitl) weer brilliant and oxi flowered silks, wi 4! th obes or sashes f rich, stiff brocade fabulously dear. ‘They weem to have been rivaled by alittle (feudal described M hilted shott sword ia his girdl of thirteen, his sword bearcr, attended bim to carry the longer badge of rank. A DRIVE TO THE Fara. Itis fortunaie that nearly all the steeds in Japan are human. Otherwise we never should -Bave got to our destination in safety that New | Rag oApeomned br, jatsu Daira,” aged four or fiv: | y during the previous of hina or im- ages a rarchased for the Little girl, which ebe | plays with until grown up, Whenshe lemerried j ber bina are taken with her to her huaband’s | house. an- she gives them to her children, add- | ing to the stock as her family inerenses.” dren can't be much like Ameri- mages are made of wood or en- ey represent the Mikado and yolo nobles and their wives and daughters, the Covrt Minstrels and various personages in Japanese mythology and — Agreat m other toys, representing all [articles in a Japanese ‘Indy's chamber, the | service of the eating table, the utensils of the | kitehen, traveling apparatus, &c., which are very elaborate and costi hibited and played with on this day. The girls make offerings of sake, dried rice, &c., to the | effigies of the emperor and empross, mimick- ing the whole round of Japanese female life, as that of a child, maiden, wife, mother and grandmother THE FEAST OF FLAGS. The Boy's Day (Feast of Flags), is on the festival of Hachimen, the God of War. The | old Japanese were a very martial nation, and | the boys’ effigies were always those of generals, soldiers, on foot and horse, the gods of strength and valor, wrestlers, and #0 01 | Their occasion, are | Weapons of a Daimio’s (feudal prince) | procession, such as arms, armor, banners an the like. A complete set is bodht for every | son, and for every son born within seven years, | there is a huge hollow paper carp (nobor) bung gutaide the House from lofty bamboo pole. ‘The wind bellies these fish out and makes them flap their fins and The idea 1s that the carp can swim swiftly against the current, and surmount waterfalls (here again Japan enjoys inonopoly), typical of the young man’s mount ing over all difficulties io success and quiet | prosperity. The boys play at Daimio's processions, or | the battles between the Genji and Heike (the Chinese names of the famous rival clans of the Minamoto 7 In these mock batiles | the pla: red (Heike) or white back or an earthen- ck on a pad on his head. To |eapture the enemies’ flags or to break the earthen discs with bamboo swords is the way | the game is played. | In modified forras ‘prisoner’ | most of the time-honored child the West are played. Indoors there are such games as Mawari Doro, fastening tiny figures and scenes cut out of black paper inside a lantern, the heat of the flame of which makes them revolve; Sogo Roku, | a sort of backgamraon; Juroku Musashi, a sort of fox-and goose, and various kinds of card and educational ‘games, such as Troha Garuta (alphabet . \ bundred Garata (game of ancient odes), Chive (wisdom boards), and Chive No (ring of wisdom). ' Some of thesé require a Knowledge of the Chinese classics and consider- | able scholarship, so it is not surprising to find | that the most popular of them all is that of the three post stations” between Tokyo and | Kyou name and picture of each is give | and the stake deposited on Kyoto. Then they throw with dice, and whoever arrives at Kyoto first wins. base,” and "s gaines of oets-cards) THE MULTITUDE OF ToYs. Japan is veritably, as Sir Rutherford Alcock called it, “The Paradise of Babies.” If a village is large enough to hold a shop atall it will have ‘Year's day when we took the long drive from | 4 toy shop. ‘The poorest parts of cities have our temporary abode in the Castle of Tokyo to the fair which was taking place in the grounds | of the great temple of hwanuon at Asakusa, for the streets were at the mercy of throngs of itile girls in their gayest dresses and sashes, with powdered faces and carmined lips (color- | ing said to be in imitation of a certain kind of | BHy beetle) and with a most gorgeous coiffare | ing at hane-tsuki (battiedore and shut- | ock) in pairs or circles. Their shuttlecocks were tiny feathered balls made of seeds, | ‘and their battledores made of the light kiri wood (Paulownia Imperialis). of which clogs are had backs in all the colors of the rainbow, raised up with cloth, padded silk, ac. to’ give “some popular actor, hero of Fomance or singing gitl in the most Japanese | style.ot beauty.” ‘One had to pass through a ball of shuttle-| ¢ocks, some of them whizzing past you point blank, like a hard volley at lawn teunis, others dropping just in front of your nose on a bat- | Madore, which shied it back “again. No horses would have stood it. ‘This game is supposed to give the youthful belle matchless opportunities for sbowing. off beauty, tigure aud dress, and, strictly speaking.the victor may.if she chooses, i the conquered beauty’: face with ink. | The boys meanwhile were having top fights | It it had been windy enough | their favorite kites it wouldn't have been ealm enough for battledore. These tops were made of bard wood with an iron ring around them. and were wound up and thrown. ‘Ihe | frat thrower threw his to spin; the second threw his to strike the spinning top. As we drove back the wind had risen, and on the roof of every two--tory house paterfamilias ‘waa assisting his boys in flying kites, a pastume im which the Japanese are particularly adept ‘THE PASTIME OF KITE FLYING, “You go drill ground?” asked Taro (eldest my Rikisha boy, observing the interest I rs of them. The temples are full of Fairs have hardly anything else except ipe cases and combs, and their parents are orever devising or buying toys for them, At any of the matwuri (festivals), at great temples like those of Shiba and Asakusa, one will see the poorest Japaneso going off lalen with t for their children. The toys, it is true, are cheap and simple. Some of the favorite ones are made of dough, blown in much the same way as glass is, into | figures of gods and men and jinri kischas and cocks end foxes and tir trees, and rudely col- ores! Then there are the kites, battledores, hel- e . coats of mail, swords, spears, guni model junks and sampans, bal ticle of furnitare for a house in miniature, ons’ heads for the kagura dances, minia- ture firemen’s standards, luddereand hammers, and any amount of little kuickknacks made of cheap lacquered wood and paper. But some of. the toys are very ingenious and fine. For about $1.50, for instance, one ean buy an ex- act working model of the Murata rifle used by the J and some of the swords, sold in pairs (katana and chusui-katat in imitation of those curried by the Sam urai re really beautiful and costly. ‘The flags are generally the Japanese flug, made of silk crepe iounted on a lacquered staff, with a little brass ball at the top. ‘Yhe favorite pastime of the Japanese chil- dren is, strange to say, imitating the oceu tions of their elders—ard this not only at suri time. ‘They do it with an inimitable gravity and demureness, Perhaps having to jssume the responsibilities of nurse and per- ambulator combined to the baby brother or sister when only about four herself may give a girl the habit. EARLY PUT AT WORK. One constantly sees boys who look hardly old dolis, every on, took in their skill; “plenty kite, good kite, drill ground.” I nodded and we drove just | st our hotel to the wind-swept drill ground | Bring between the cavalry barracks, the Roka- meikwan (Tokyo Club) and the School of the Yoblew lere was Japan with all glory with kites | oy Bag Be which, when counterfeits came down’ proved to | of great brown hawks, which wheel and wheel a street of a Japanese city, or rectangles of tough paper | stretched on light split bamboo frames of about | ‘couple of feet square or more, adorned in| rainbow hues with the figures of ‘grea: heroes | or beautiful women or Chinese dragons. Some of them have hummers wade of strips of whale- hones others had tan ox twenty feet oftheir at the kite end dij in mixture of ‘gum und pounded glass for kite Aghtn. If this | ane ly across the string of a rival kite it cuts it and brings it to the ground. Sir Edwin Arnold was very fond of giving kite | parties, The girls meanwhile had given up battledore | and were having matches at bouncing a ball covered with bright silks, to which they kept Bpe crooning accompaniment, which consists | stories as old as the hills in a word-play on the numbers up to a hundred. We never bad snow enough in Tokyo to see | of @ cash (1 1-10 cent) each to the little urchins Daruma Asobi, the children with characteristic irreverence making snow men in the shape of Daruma, the founder of one of the most important sects in Buddhism, or the white rabbit, who is supposed to live in the and beguile his time with making the of bfe. SOME OF THEIR CURIOUS Gaurs. And some of their games are very hard for a foreigner to identify; such as Senjo Kwannon, fm which a child takes another on its back. facing backward. and pretends to be one of the asks doveten, cho cam a tall, narrow shrine of the Goddess of Merey, some six feet high, on their Lacks for the conimon people to worship (and give them a gratuity): au Abirano (duck’ in which the the back, and the other children dance round, sin on- sensical verse: but Kari Asobi (playing at bunt- fng)-and Masbi Gari hunting grasshopper which are put into the quainteat gauze cage: speak for d ‘Tama poap bubbles), apd suka Asobi, play with toy weap: Hotaru-gari (lnnting fire flies) ix similar toa hunted k down with a cireular fan. Tbe ipteresting part about king-vo (playing with gold fish) ts that these precoc Japanese cultivate any number of tails up to half a dozen, two and three-tailed fish being quite common. the two ont-of-doors toure-de-forces for children are the teuao Yuatsuri no asobi—pluying at the feast -of Denno, the Japanese Neptune, andthe bon mateari or feast of the dead.” In the former She fow biggest boys (and Japanese can carry ishing weights for their size) carry a big b (ro) from the palace of the god ami others carry lions made of Lusket-work (shishi) end huge square. paper lanterus on staves (ere, children’s Lacks are covered with Marvelous tiragous and such “wild fow! is one of the stimmer festivals, taking place in dune. But the bon matwuri, the festival of the ancestors, in July, ws the most pictur thing of the year, for not only do the in gorgeous costames, parade the streste with foneand baunera and paper lane ferns, chanting, but most grea} cities have special form of celebr: { is tinny | This | enongh to go to school actively engaged in business—bookbinding or paining lanterns and umbrellas, or even with tiny hammers knock- ing the gold leaf into the fretted surface of the reat “Satsuma” jars which Tokyo and Yoko- ma turn out in such abundance. The boys are charming until they put on red socks and psendo European shoes and fiat- trimmed caps and spectacles, and attend one of the great schools on foreign models. Those are the grubs which change into soshi. ‘One of the prettiest sights one can see ina japanese street is a group of children buzzing Found a candy stall or peripatetic cooking- stove, well described by Griffla: early every itinerant seller of candy, starch cakes, sugared peas and sweetened beans has several methods by lottery by which he adds to the attractions on his stall. A disk hav- ing a revolving, arrow, whirled around by the hand of a child, or a number of strings which are connected with the faces of imps, goddesses, jevils or heroes, lends the excitement of chance, and when lucky pull or whirl occurs acca ious the subsequent addition to the small frac- tion of a cent’ worth to be bought. Men or Women itinerants carry asmall charcoal brazier | under a copper griddle, with batter, spoons, | cups and Shoyu sauce to hire out for the price who spend an afternoon of bliss making their | cakenend eating them. The seller of sugar jelly exhibits a devil. taps a drum and dances for the benetit of his baby customers. The seller of mochi (rice flour cakes) does the same, | with the addition of gymnastics and skillful tricks with bails of dough. The fire eater rolls | balls of camphor paste, glowing with Jambent | fire, all over his arms, and then extinguishes | them with his mouth. ‘The bug man harnesses paper carts to the backs of beeties with wax, | and a half dozen in this will drag @ load of wax up an inclined ‘The man with the magic swimming birds tips his tiny water fowl with camphor and floats them in a long, narrow dish full of water. The wooden toys, propelled from side to side and end toend by the dissolving gum, act as if alive to the won- |dermg eyes of young spectators. In every Japanese city there are scores, if nothundreda, of men and women who obtain a liv by | amusing children.” } THE KAGURA DANCER. One mast not forget the kagura dancer, who goes about the street at the New Year with his head enveloped in a dragon's head mask, with a scarlet or green cloth hanging from it like a photographer's camera cover, to enable him to give the dragom a neck by holding it an arm's Jength above or in front is own bead, and the man with the performing menkeys,who are jicroasly like the Japanese they imitate, and the conjurer and the formance. The acrobat shows are rather such very young ehildren obama | ATTRACTIVE HOMES. How a Room May Be Prettily and Cheaply Decora’ LIGHT FABRICS FOR SUMMER. ‘They Come Within the Reach of All and Look a0 Nice aa More Expensive Material—Wall Paper is Also Reasonable—Some Novelties in Pillows. Written for The Evening Star. HERE 13 NO DIFFICULTY IN FINDING pretty things to bay at the places where “‘Orcesus and his family shop," and the array set forth to select from is fairly overpowering in its variety. Because, however, we do not belong to the family of Crosus—are not even distantly connected, indeed—there is no reason why we, too, may not have pretty and dainty sur- roundings. A little taste and ingenuity in the first place, and then the necessary care and labor to keep things nice, are the requirements, besides a small sum of money to invest, and with this combination we may achieve results that will be most satisfactory. I have been asked lately to tell of some pretty things that very slim purses may compass. Certainly wall paper at 6 cents a roll and attractively pretty goods at 5 cents a yard must be o any one could ask for in that way, and I intend todescribe furnishing « room this week with these materials. A dear little boy has had scarlet fever, and of course great care has been taken so that the contagion would not spread, all movables being ‘tchan: Troe. bis sore except the absolutely necessary pieces of furniture. ‘The time having come for renovation the walls were to be repapered and pew hangitige put up, and the little fellow's mother went out to seek something pretty, and at the same time inexpeusive, which would be fresh and last for a while—long enough to make the trouble taken worth whil Almost the first thing she saw was something quite suitable for curtains and such things, and, as I enid before, at 5 cents a yard! Watlo the’ materinl was ‘not of the finest it com- pared favorably with curtain miugling at five times the price, while the tiny blue dower and larger one of old pink with olive leaves made ‘4 design really tasteful. It was decided, thero- fore, to get s quantity of itand then she looked at wall paper. CHEAP BUT PRETTY WALL PAPER. It was astonishing to see the variety of pretty colors and patterns in prices ranging from 6 to 15 cents a rol. Acream ground with emall bouquets in which pink and blue both were combined made that the best to go with the hang- ings chosen, while a rather narrow frieze border was the finish for the top of the room, the ceil- ing being of the same as the wall paper. ‘The price of this pretty paper, and which was very good on the walls, was 6 cents a roll, as I have said. The bed already in the room was one of the pretty white ones with brass rails and knobs, and for this was made aeover of the cheese- cloth, I will cull it, though Lam not quite sure that is the name. “This was made of two widths of the goods sewed together lengthwise, and then « tounce put all around of the goods split into lengthwise strips, the selvage used for a standing heading, while the lower edge was hemmed. ‘This flounce was fifteen inches deep, and at the foot of the bed had to be eut each side for the post, so that it would fall evenly all around, just clearing the floor. ‘The little boy, who y four years old, does not sleep’ on @ pillow, so for day decora- tive effect a round ’ bolster was made, stuffed with curled hair and with a cover of the cheesecloth like the spread. put on plainly and the fullness brought into the center of each end and there made into a rosette. Around the bolster near each end were tied ribbons of old pink with bows and ends. ‘The effect of this little bed when made, the size being what ix called three-quarters, was aa 7 pretty as it much more mM ©: pended on its fittings. ‘THR WINDOW CURTAINS. At the single window curtains were hung and drawn off and tied at the side. The inner edges had a five-inch frill, and they were fastened at the top by very simple arrange- ment which can be bought for the purpove. Into each end of a window framee hook screwed. A small board or slat, like those run in window shades, has a screw eye in each end at the back. When a curtain is to be used with this fixture one of the scre' is taken out, e curtain, made with a shirr wide enough to slip on this slat and with upstanding ruftle above, is run on, the screw eye: ‘and the whole’ simply bung into the two Socueniwe have been hung at the right distance to accom- modate the scrow eyes. It is easily adjusted, as one may see, and for bed room curwins a good arrangement. Ihave seen rods fastened in the same way to window frames and then the curtains pinned on as usual—this where tho or- dinary bracket fixture wag disliked. In the present case the standing ruftie and shirr at the twp corresponded to the ruitied edges and was very light and pretty looking, ‘This curtain was tied back high up with pink ribbons like those on the bolster. Into the adjoining room a door opened, but this had been removed so: time previously and a portiere hung on farther side. Now for a pretty effect from the child's room = double curtain was hung of cheesecloth, just like the one at the window, and looped ‘with ribbons high enough so as not to interfere with passing back and forth freely. DECORATING THE FURNITURE. A small square table was hung with a drepery of the cheesecloth reaching to the floor, with acover over the top edged with « three-inch ruffle of the same. The little square mirror hanging above it was taken from ite frame and afull puff of the cheesecloth put over the frame, with white cloth underneath, as the cheesecloth was too thin without it, and the mirror replaced. ‘The low white rocking chair had a head cushion adorned with a rutiled cover of the cheesevloth, with pink ribbons tying it on. A full piece of the cheesecloth was above the low wicker washstand for a pop a Lows at the corners. These iittle the way, are very prett and convenient, and the low toilet sets for chil- dren's use look very suitable on them. One in wild rose design and old pink in color was on the stand I speak of. ‘The little boy's own low chairs stood about, and the small trunk or box which held his toys; this Inst_was covered with aeretonne of a darker coloring than the rest of the room, but with the same pink and biue coloring Th the destyn. ‘This was finished with brass uails om the comers aud the small proprietors monogram top composed o brass-beaded nails also. Brass handles on. e¢c! ond made it easily movable, while auother was on the fidtolift it by. Some light bamboo shelves on the wall were curtained wi had a comfortable cushion which ae prone sete inves ornered cota a et fal rowed peiher.” Ovér this '» square Cy with colored flowers was Pave teh caught at each of white in of the silk were finished wil ee ere Soe fell savy reac! ing Sealy t ihe cia aout. The chats baad no Pollsbed and te Nght, Drocado was dscided Sis nt bone sttitencl win re n explicit e that the brocade falls over the cushion on sides so that from the front or through the slate, at the back of tho chair only the brocade is seen, the: ushion being slipped between. ———_<08 FESTIVE NAVAL DOINGS. Omcers im the Service Find Entertaining a Serious Expense. The edges oa IX FOREIGN PORTS THEY ARE OBLIGED TO Ex- TEND COSTLY HOSPITALITIES WHICR DEPLETE PUBSES—THEY MAY REFUSE TO FAY, BUT ‘THE CONSEQUENCES ARE UNPLEASANT. 66 4 N OFFICER IN THE UNITED STATES navy finds the entertaining which lie is obtiged to do incidentally to his regular duty a very serious drain upon his puree,” said a cap- tain in the service toa writer for Tas Stax. “There iss great deal of that sort of thing which he cannot escape, and it is my opinion that some special allowance ought to be made him for the purpose by the government, ina much aa the bospitalities he must offer in foreign ports are extended not in his capacity of a private citizen, but as representing the country abroad. It is prescribed by the regu- Intions that he shall do everything in his power to cultivate pleasant relations with people of other nations by the interchange of social courtesies and otherwise. He has even pre- scribed for his costume a special coat to be worn on occasions of festivity. And yet he is compelled to pay all the expenses out of his own pocket. ‘THE COMMANDER SUFFERS MosT. “Buch expenses fall most heavily upon the commanding officer of a ship, because what- ever hospitalities he extends he has to pay for unaided, while the wardroom officers divide the cost of their, own entertainments among themselves, but even the latter are apt to fin the tax a heavy one. known my own wine bill, incurred in this amount for months together to more than half pay, without counting in other things be- thYassign park, elvis ace fe lente atton in foreign parts, civilities are ex! often on.a cousidorable seale, by the residents to officers of the vessel. For example, we arrive at Calcutta, and the viceroy calls upon the cap- tain to extend an invitation to. dinner at house. Next, the official dignitaries of the city give a ball in our honor. Distinguished citizens offer similar courtesies, and so it goes. Of course, we must return them all by parties and dinners on board. Asa matter of pride, it is impossible that we should fail to ke our end. In other wi guests as costly wines as at their honses, and there must not parent economy in expeniiture. I You aré aware how smull the pa: \t We navy. men get. Do you think it is fair that we should have no allowance for a purpose 60 clearly official in its nature? ‘THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION AFFAIR. “When Admiral Jouett commanded the squadron of the United States at the New Orleans exposition he was obliged to take part in the elaborate civilities. which were ex- changed among the various ‘aquadro representing the different powers of The commanding officers of the other rons had cousiderable sums pluced at their dig posal by their governments for the express AFFAIRS IN CHILI, partic: ‘The Revolution That Has Been Going F ar On in That Oountry. HOW THE TROUBLE BEGAN, Prompt Action on the Part of the President Would Have Checked the Uprising at the ‘Start—Uncertainty as to the Result—Balma- coda and His Family. From The Star's Traveling Commissioner. Sawriado px Curt, Feb., 1891. JX, YEW OF THE PRESENT SERIO isturbances this obstreperous little repub- Tic, which considers herself fully capable of whipping the whole world, is neither safe nor pleasant place for foreigners to visit just fiow, but, journalistically, speaking, is = “seat of war” by no means to be ignored. However, ft makes little difference in what part of South America the scribe may pitch his moving tent, for in every one of these miscalled republics Political troubles are brewing always and Hable at any time to bubble up in armed rebellion. Chili has boasted much of being the most peacable of them all, as well as the most pros- Perous and law abiding. RELIABLE INFORMATION DIFFICULT. We made a hasty trip down here from Pera during last July (the midwinter season on this side of the equator) in the midat of the excite- ment, then at fever heat, which was roally the beginning of present complications —on pur- — to study both sides i Is is ira) le to arrive at a fair under- standing of them at a distance, because South American newspapers, mostly pri Spanish language, are few, ineficient and uni- versally “bought up" by one faction or the other; while the fclegraph wires, whon not seized or torn down by insurgents, are o and controlled by the government. Indeed it is easier for you at the distant north to receive reliable though tardy information concerning gfents occurring on the southern continent — rough private messages sent by foreigners engaged In business here. to there houses “in purpose of doing this entertaining, while our ‘own government made no provision whatever. It was so palpably unfair that the admiral sent to the department at Washington vouchers for the expenses for entertaining incurred noi only by himself, but by the commanders of the ves- sels other than. the flagship. He represented the case and asked that the vouchers be paid asif they were for any other costs inci- dental jo the secrice. Ho} ment repl against his private account. ‘The amount was very considerable, and the olticers of the squadron were anxious to relieve him of their shares; but the admiral declined, xaying that would appeal to Congress for relief. Whether or not he ever got the money in that way I do not know. A VERY DISTRESSING DBAIN ON BIS PURSE. “It goes without saying that an officer of the navy cannot be compelled by law or regulations to extend social hosp italities, and it sometimes occurs that a man will refuse to take part in hem or to for them on the ground that he the ‘expense. But it is very rely that this is done, for the obvious reason that few fellows care to place themselves in the position of declining to bear a share of moss expenditures. Any one who did so hold bim- self aloof would necesearily be looket uj somewhat his companions. And t it —_ often be Leger 7. pace ieutenant, for i a sup- ‘on share and oie beside ba per five upon, Binds the drain upon his purse very distressing indeed. Furthermore, means are) soon sought to get rid of » man who wil not pay his scot for entertaining. It is not = that be should be punished openly; but in a quiet and effective manner he finds himself of. His captain writes a rivate letter on the subjec’ to the it Pp a “ Pl ment; but after he gets home a necessity forhis services elewere Damercesd, i the — nat officers are largely men of means, it ito. well recoguized that the profession isan expensive one that certain ships are regularly i ay vessels for poor men, wherein Spacasiuuss oficping ts teop.tee sopemeaees ness And maintain terms of equality with fellows who are rich.” Face aa She Didn't Fool the Clerk. From the New York Sun. “ felt oo cheap the other day,” said » pretty girl, “I had-en old pin that was given to me by my mother when I was quite young—ob, fully ten years ago—and I had on idea that if { went to the store where it was bought and maid nothing about its age I could get it changed for 801 Tit nice and the custom swell places, #0 I with my it, you know, and I knew it was ‘at those big afternoon ‘On pao Seek mes Ro wouted to ge along with mo; ana Fi way the “arn and tacking himself, comes in. the wisdom of cheap ganar the small mter gan practice on to his heart's content It is really an education toa child to select and group pretty pic! way, and one whic the i | tions. In Yok ially pen ee ee jand scarlet flannel, who go about the’ streets somersaults for visitors. | throwing Good bye. little Japs, who are said never to | break anything (perhaps because there is noth- img in your homes to break), who never bear | @ cross word from your and enjoy | y | enough to carry the next baby; who look the cleanest and sweetest little things imaginable, on the occasions when your are not with eczema or your noses with colds ag? =k oF i j sé i i 5 f i i i E i e z i Fe 4 cfet Fa 4 F if re Hj i : aut | li | | i E I : £ a iF. ; i cE tl # i fi i f P i § j gz if : i Uy RE ie ea te wil London, France or New York via Buenos Ayres —then for people living in different divisions of the same country, who must, depend entirely upon local facilities. THOUGHT THE TROUBLE ONLY A TEMPORARY STIKE. On that first visit to Chili we came over to the capital on purpose] to have an interview with the president (which was easily ac- complished), and to attend some of the excit- ing sossions of congress and it chanced, by rare good fortune, that wo left Valparaiga the very day fore that ‘dreadful 2ist of J n for some hours the old seaport was in the hands of a howling mob and itsstreets were bathed in blood. Even then prominent Chitians assured me that the trouble was only a temporary strike which might occur anywhere and that there was not the remotent of revolution, because the people were altogether foo patsiotic to bring discredit on their be- loved country. PRESIDENT BALMACEDA BLAMED. It seems to be the fashion, especially abroad, among those whose knowledge of Chili’s affairs tmust be, to say the least, somewhat superficial, to attribute all the blame of the muddle to President Balmaceda and to characterize him asatyrantand would-bo dictator. The truth is that if the executive had not been too pliant and anxious to please in the first pluce he would have crushed the rebellion in its infancy, be- fore its ugly hydra-heads had grown too strong for him. The fault is principally with a deter- mined and unscrupulous political faction which unfortunately happens to have a majority in the legislative chamber and whose nrimary ob- Ject is to control the approaching presidential election, which can only be done by breaking the power of the present incumbent. HOW THR TROUBLE BEGAN. The trouble began in this way: Ever since Chili has claimed to be a republic her constitu- tion has permitted i ministers, an un- wise and foolish custom wo of the north may think, but, having been firmiy established by law and precedent, there is no reason why Don Balmaceda should not exercise his constitutional prerogative in the matter the ame ae his pre- lecessors have done. If the system is now at variance with popular feeling a change might have been effected in {ution without all this lows of life and pr e disaffected congressmen, having catise fear that the president would’ name aa his sue. scessor a certain cabinet officer who is ob- noxious to , deliberately instigated revolts by obstinately refusing to pass any Presupuestas, as sppropriations | are called, until Balmaceda should come to their rms, the first demand being that he dismiss his ministers, one and all (in order to get rid of the obnoxious one),and then appoint others more to their liking. This the president de- clined to do, on the ground that the Chilian government, like that of every other ives the executive the right to elect mediate officersand to retain them unless tney become guilty of grave offense: that he bad already changed his cabinet twice within little more than two in tho vain effort to satisfy them and todo soathiri time, for no fault of the ministers, soni oa) aly, be @x- mely unjus jose gentlemen and render Himself ridloalons in the ayes of the world as a Party uppet with no felony = would est ‘a dangerous for his succes- sors in all time to come. ME WAS Nor ¥Inx. The revolts of seven months ago were the di- rect result of this refusal, or rather of the means employed by congress to make the President change bis mind. Even then. had he adhered to his first decision, or, had he made aud abidee by'it change of officers was demanded, all might now and if milder means be well with the country, for enforcing his rightful authority had not mn far better for the availed it would have country had he caused the arrest and detention of the agitators as so many traitors to the gov- ernment. All the world admires. brave man and prompt, decided measures of that sort “would have won more re- for Senor he ar hope to enjoy. To be sure, such e: to the spirit of re- rebellion, the consti- Detter. It looked awfully | {90K first congress probabl us ball bate = gather such [01 it in favor ze Tocendiary he cliberately firesa it it sidering what Lives and property he may desteon, one could not buy a portede star in and sometimes for days tagether the post wou be dlosat Rerchant coud not ged tals goods out custom houses, tities 8f perishable goods spoiled in the keeping. und navy could not be paid, nor any other res of government} however their families might suffer. of every em foneeet Se Beem A ‘and excha: wer Breer ema for every ‘dollar of the United States one received $3.37 in Chilian le the questions at | ited in the | in burn. like tinder, and thing ont the prompt yur e tinder, ai it geet of gaverament troops prevented from ing served in the riots of last July as Iquiqui was six months tater. ‘At Must, to save further changed his cabinet a time. ‘rite OPPORTTION Nor #ATISPTED. Bat, as he had foreséen, the opposition party were not satisfied and became more pronounced in their hostility toward the government, until st length, hoping to better their condition, a portion of ‘any army and went Ever to thelr ete, lth the dicaetrous recalwe of hay business innumerable and Chili has lost more than sho can regain infty years af prow Beitr espa eed in murder, “will out.” SKETCH OF PRESTDENT BALMACEDA. President Jose Manuel Balmaceda was in- augurated on September 18, 1886, for the con- stitutional term of Ave years, and consequently but a quis! \-to~t ut was a it, well- lo citizen of the wealthiest and most aristocratic capital of Spanish America. The questionable — ness” was not particularly of his own _ but was ina measure “thrust upon him.” ro fortune has been com} this disastrous he will retire from office a poor man, with fewer friends thar when he went into it. ‘Chili boasts that within her eae, borders there are no peculations in high places and loves to point to the case of 8 former president who was immensely wealthy Lane life, bi is tely wrecked ut through some uniortunate ion lost all his fortune while in office, carriages close of the term retired to acheap little rented house in the suburbs, where he still lives. MIS PAMILY SENT TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. President Balmaceda is not yet forty years old—a tall, handsome, well-educated man, who has traveled a good deal and speaks some En- glish, but not enough to carry on an easy con- Yersation. His family consists of « wite and several pretty children, among the latver being three nearly grown daughters, who had alread: L to pose as belles before their flight. It is not known to a certainty where they are gone; some way to Europe and others assert with equal confidence that they were sont over the mountains to the Argentine Republic. At any rate the president has succeeded in spirit ing them away to some place of greater security, while he remains to face the storm, in hourly danger of threatened assassination. What a sad parting that must have been between the haraseed father and his gentle wife and daugh- ters! Mra. Balmaceda is spoken of by allas the most womanly of women, a devoted mother and mode! homekeeper. ‘MIXED LIFE IN SANTIAGO. Meanwhile, life in Santiago is a queer mix- ture of'anxiety ahd social ‘pleasure. Nobody knows what terrible things may happen at any moment; yet, notwithstanding rumors of war and harrowing accounts of atrocities trated in near-by laces, =] ity of roverbially _light-hear! ‘-go-luck 5 -Americana disport’ thereclves in tk> same old ways. tended, and, as usual, the boxes are filled with bare-headed, |, bejeweled ladies, dressed in the height of Parisian fashion. On New Year's eve, according to long-established custom, there was a magnificent open-air con- certin the Quinta Normal—a ious and beautiful garden in the suburbs the cits amistad By soveral fine | military bands entire space, with its splendid trees and lawns and béis of fiow- = hung with Chinese lanterns and ablaze with the electric light; while its comimodious restauant building (a second Delmonico's) and numerous dancing pavilions were crowded Ee 2 grey nd the French, Se jane voices, was come to the ears of exiled Gringos (as. all Anglo- Saxons are called hereabouts), were the strains of “God Save the Queen.” sung at the English club, where the young fellows made a night of it in memory of far-away friends, and even the n shaky voice of some ever-lo: Cannabis" ce his wn 8 oe lum! ” on way - ding way through Giese Would aiinad tix awn CLUB, On the 4th of January, as an expression of popular sentiment against Balmaceda, all the cabinet ministers were expelled from the Union Club, the most swell o1 ization of ite kind in the city, by » vote of 9 to 1. On the Sth a care to al ‘mi an wi highly Sate oe becai e it, md no gathering of any kind is per- mitted on the stroata.” Vii lv is the order enforced that if three or four well-known citizens cliance to stop in a group for conversa- tion, as is daily done in every community, up steps a policeman and orders ‘them to disperse. In view of existing siroumatanoes these azine. yutions may be necessary, but ertheless extremely irksome to Ww le. “Who fas seen, tomorrow?” is & favorite Spanish proverb, particularly to wena eeecteranes thell and carnage into this proud old capital. 3 ‘Faxsix B. Wamp. 8 BEVENGE IS SWEET. How a Lean Man Settled = Little Account With a Crank. ‘From the Albany Ancus. ‘The sour-faced individual in the seat looked at him a moment and snapped: *‘No, you csn’t seat. “D'yon objeck to my smokin'?” inquired the “Wouldn't make a continental difference 'f I a an mar favorite brand of the weed. risk ‘nd stormy day, ain't it?” man. "Tuo orink yoored ot hile s Perpe- | hol The theaters are all well at- | © ¥ 8 | Mrs. MeSwat carefully scooped this out, served | ME. McSWATS EXPERIMENT. He Shoys Lobelia How to Save Money While Adding to the Comforts of Life. From the Chicago Tribune. . ‘Mr. McSwat went Lome one afternoon a few. weeks ago with something wrapped up in a ped | brown paper. He laid it on the kitchen table, but kept his hand on it, as if it were a mystery too? omentous to be unfolded without taking | precautions against inflicting upon the sensi- | tive nervous system of Mrs. McSwat a sudden | and unexpected shock. | Vell, Billiger, what is it?” “Don't be ina hurry, Lobelia. All in good time. Ihave made up my mind to try a little experiment. I car hardly call it an experi- ment, though. It is such an obvious, practical thing that it's wonder to me it hasn't been done for a hundred years. Iam going to show you, Lobelia, how to save money and add to the ‘comforts of lit Mr. MeSwat then proceeded with great de- liberation to open. the He took off the string, rolled it up into a little coil and gave it to Mrs. MeSwat. “7 idea, Lobelia,” he sai: every piece of string that comes into You may need it some time. She had « bag full of similar coils laid away somewhere, tangled into an inextricaple mass | and running over at the top, bad no use under the shining sun for her inch of | string, but she promised to take care of thi particular wad. Meanwhile Mr. McSwat w slowly unrolling the bundie. He brought to w at Inst a beet's tongue. ‘ ~There it is, Lobelia, he exclaimed. | “I don't see anything remarkabie aboat it, | Billiger, except that it isn't smoked. he retorted. | “to save house. | at's just the point, madam, 've got tired of paying sixty cents apiece for smoked tongues that look like a section of | & dried monkey's forearm und taste as if they had been dug up out of an Indian mound. T'mto smoke my own beet tongues | hereafter.” “But how are you going to do it? We haven any smoke house.” just you wait a minute and you'll see. Bring me an iron poker. Mrs. McSwat hunted up the desired imple- ment and brought it wo him. “Now observe.” He thrust the through the slit in er about half its length end of the tongue. ow come on, Lobelia. | He preceded her upstairs, opened a back Window, stepped out ou the kitchen roof and made bis way up by laborious climbing to the | comb, and thence along to the chimney at the further end. Lifting himeelf carefully up be placed the pokeracross the top of J beef tongue banging down inside. “That's the scheme, Lobelia,” he said, clam- bering back to the window. thing more.” up that chim- ‘We burn hard | | sible to eb eres] * said his wite. now. fix that. We'll throw in a slab of wood | occasionally, and if that doesn't make smoke | enough well burn a little softeoal. They're | both cheaper than hard coal.” They went down stairs, and for the next | twenty-four hours or longer, in compliance | with instructions from , Mrs. tie rat | and the amiable domestic, Ophelia, plied the kitchen range liberally with slabs of wood and chunks of soft coal. J On the morning of the second day after Mr. McSwat had put in operation his grand schem for adding to the comfort of living he climbe out to the chignney again, lifted the tongue out and brought it down strirs. *No discount on this job, Lobelia,” he said, Hing it up. “It's smoked till you can't rest. Ever see a tiner-looking tongue than that? esn't it look a good deal shriveled, Billi- inquired Mrs, MeSwat, dubiously. “A smoked tongue ulways looks shriveled. All you need to do now is to scrape it off nicely, Peel off the skin and cook it.” Mrs. McSwat pulled the tongue off the poker, laid it down on the table and .« broke in two. It was covered with a thick deposit of soot, was charred almost to the center and from its steaming interior came a rich odor in which several distinct kinds of smoke were clearly perceptible. “It won't need any more cooking, Billiger,” announced Mrs. MeSwat. In the center of the thickest portion there was about an ounce and a half of flesh that had escaped the general destruction in which the rest of the tongue been involved. How it up for Billiger's dinner as temptingly as tige nature of the case would admit aud hung over him like an angel of mercy while he ate it— how Billiger McSwat made a mental compu- tation as to the saving he had effected in smok- ing his own beef tongue, without counting two large revis in the inner periphery of each trousers’ leg caused by shingle nails on the roof—how he reflected on the comforts he had added to life by his little experiment, it is not of this chronicle to reiate, but truat- rmation received at this office quite is to the effect that Mr. McSwat buy his smoked tongues now and pays without a murmur whatever the monopolist behind the counter chooses to ask hit the pur; wert There's trouble in a Marion township dis- trict school in this county. The teacher, a young man, is on his fourth year in that dis- | trict, but it will probably be his last there. He | has been kissing the big girls. The girls don't object—that is, as long as the kissing is equally distributed. But there's where the trouble comes in. Last Friday morning, by some strange fatality, he missed one of the giris; that is to say, he missed kissing her, and she went ona strike. She gave away the whole “snap” to her mamma, and now the deuce is to pay. The whole district is in an uproar. The parents refuse to send their daughters to school another day, and one of the trustees has peti- tioned the county superintendent to revoke the young man’s certificate. The young man is Going to fight. He has employed counsel who will try to convince the superintendent that a good square honest kiss properly planted on a pair of pretty lips is no offense against the and dignity of the state and the statute Fi'voch cave mtade and provided. He will file a demurrer or enter a plea of con- and avoidance, or whatever the p thing is, and if he rises to the occasion in bi appeal for justice it is safe to say be will para- lyze the court, overcome the jury, and distress the janitor. When the case is closed its history may be called “A New Version of the Hoosier Sch brown eyes as the two exchanged confidences in the corner of a 15th street car the other afternoon. “Slightly.” replied she of the bzown eyes. “Datyon ines how ehe bocatne 90 popular in iety?” pursued sxe of the short hair. took place her name was foremost am: participated. | Everybody saw it | im MAN'S ORIGINAL BUR, Dr. Ege Thinks He Can Ascertain Whether Adam Was Colored or Plain. From the Phi'adeiphia Record ‘The scientific world is curiously awaiting the results of an experiment now being made bs Dr. Jobn Ege of If successful, Dr. Ege cxpects to necomplish the miracle of turn- ing the negro white and the white man black. He will also extablish at the same time the orig~ inal color of mankind. The process by which this wonderful revolution in changing the color jof the skins of the human family is to be brought sbout is"by skin grafting, an opers- has been Known and performed throughout the civilized world for ages, but which Dr. Ege, by his experiments, hopes and expects to very materially advance t is a well-known fact that there are two dis. tinet methods of skin grafting the Reverdins and Thirach. The former method is the out | ting of minute parti scissors, while the latter method prot the use of any sharp instrament similar to that way taking larger piec tered the better by profesrion for old ulcers tis preferable in new accidents like scalping and, se Methods o medical» upon « matter of inte ti ferent races o the hope and in, regardless o Hy, will ase « He has been treating @young man resi Reading, who for o bled with an ob: | the entire ic st resort t to him an hg had tong entered into the proj born of a determinn the cause of science if possible. derable effort he finally, by the aid of money, secured t | healthy ‘negroes of ebony black, wh. sented to part with a certain po sand the pr f grafting, under be | of the prescribed methods, was accomp! o await the result of — the to watch for any change the black anaiety on . after afew days of patient | he was rewa gradually | white be at once determine his investigation and ascertain wkin of th with that of the Ba Accordingly, on Tuesday James Lewin, a health who consented to undergo the opet the benetit of science. The doct knife resem! the blade of @ bare on the negro’s arm mapace t three-quarters of planted twelve pieces of ski twenty-five pice te friend. yesterday for the fir and a phi appeared tra black man’s arm it will show the the white race as well as the color. ald the white wkin change to 0 black was th gue that original color of mankind.” ae Party Girks. From the Boston Gazette. ‘One of the latest absurdities of the day is the manner in which young school-girls, from fif- | teen to seventeen, are allowed to emulate their elder sisters in indulging in social dissipations, Daring the recent season there have not only been dancing classes but also private cotillons and dinnerjparties given for children who should either be asleep or in the nursery. If dinners are to be given for the “doves,” as the “sub- buds” are often called, what is left for them when they really are introduced into society? At is no wonder that some of the debutantes of the Inst few seasons have been found to be weil versed in the ways of the world, and ready to Ro quite as far as their elders, when it is con- sidered that the bloom of maidenly freshness has been taken off at innumerable cotillons, dances, sleighing parties and dinners. Mothe would do well to refuse to allow their daughters $0 much soci! liberty while they are wt school, for they will find if this continues that their “buds,” when presented to full-grown society lack the nameless charm that ingenuousnes alone to young girls —— Why Does Woman Seek Improvement, From the New York Trath It isa difficult question to decide whether | Women seck to improve themselves for the sake of the effect it may have on men or simply for their own pleasure. More particularly do you find this a poser when you learn for the first | time that there are upward of twenty of the best-known belles of yr lessons in skart dancing. ineredible, but itixafact. Exactly what use roficiency in skirt dancing can be to a young lady, to a young bride, or to a young motber is Also bew the develop- dificult to discover. 4 ment of a girl's kicking power will find for ber greater favor in the eyes of her serious ad. mirera. Ata dinner given tiis week there were four of these energetic young beauties present, one of whom stoutly defended the ides. She said its object was simply to make them supple and graceful: Why not calisi 7° imterra “Because we do not want muse grace of carriage and movement. Asa matter of faci, however, this isone thing that an American woman need not cultivate. She is born with it. Souvenir Decorations for Rooms. New York Letterto Chicago Herald. An effective way of treating the walls in your own den isto make a border of photographs just above th@ wainscoting. Other souvenirs can be added, a bit of embroidery, favors, a piece of a gown, manuscript music, anything that has an association, The more irregular the more picturesque the effect will be. All these souvenirs may be framed in iaths stained with some favored color, or they may be ar- ranged in panels. A certain newspaper woman as taken all the phot he has received from the various profe-sionals she has inter- viewed and made a double panel of them for Scorner of her sunctum, and the effect is very pleasing. Anotner woman I know has made aa entire frieze of ph California red wood is the latest fadfor a dining room wain- scoting, and in the «pace between it quite strongly resembles mahogany. A narrow abelf for pottery finishes « wainscoting, and in the space between it and the ceiling’ old china or effective blue and white Nankin, which is so much favored just now, is hung. ‘Oh! But She Wes Just Married. From the Boston Advertiser. Evangelist Moody says that the man in the