Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1894, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1894—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 15 JAPANESE ARTISANS A Visit to the Factory Where Rug’ Are Made. THEY MAKE MATTINGS AND SILK Why a Laborer is Able to Work So Cheaply. aan Geel A LIVELY wWATPION Setiencieseneliptaselees Frank G. Carpenter.) HE NEW TREATY between Japan and the United States, which is now in the hands of the Senate, will probably make a big difference ir our trade with the Japanese. Heretofore all our business has had to be done through a limited number of the ports of the country. it has been impossible for merchants or importers to travel through the empire, picking out their own goods, and buying direct from the manu- facturers. All business has been done through middlemen, who are Japanese. By this treaty Americans can go into busi- ness anywhere in Japan. They can set up factories and employ Japanese cheap labor to make goods for America,“and they can buy where they plea: The new treaty will make a great change in Japan, and it will probably be the most pros- Perous gountry in the world during the next five or ten years. The settlement of the Chinese war will bring a great amount of money into the country. The biggest cities are already building factories, and foreign trade is being cultivated in every possible way. The Japanese have for some time realized that the markets of the world are open to them. They are now studying our tastes, and they are manufacturing for our markets. They are fast becoming Shoemaking in Japan. a nation of inventors, and during. the past summer I spent some weeks in looking up their new industries, especially those which are springing up with a view to Ameri- can markets. One of these was the busi- ness growing up in Japanese rugs and matting. It is really wonderful what they have done within a few years in these branches of trade: The Japanese had no rugs before they began to take up the new civilization. The e now making the most beautiful rugs in the world, and®also the cheapest. There is an American firm in Kobe which is shipping vast quan- tities of rugs to the United States, and which is introducing the manufac ture into Japan in a curious way. Pgr- haps the most expensive book ever mate was produced by this firm. They had artists to go to all the great museums of Europe and copy the colors and pat- terns of the finest rugs in the world. They hound these patterns into a book, which they sent out in Jaban and put into the hands of the workmen, and now these fa- mous rugs, are being copied in jute. The jute was brought from India, and the new-| rugs are equal in colors to the originais. They sell for a song in comparison with the Turkish rugs, and there is a possibility that the Japanese will take up the mak- ing of woolen rugs. If they do so, they Ie the Bath, will crowd the eastern rugs out of the mark for they are born artists, and every child in the empire is a genius as to the manipulation of colors. There at make d one known and I was introduc man who The worl by hand, and e like stables tor's name bright Jap- ndred houses He had two hu shment, and he took me to Some of the children * at rug-making were of dge, and there were a about’ ten. They receive ght cents In silver a day, a work from 8 in the morning until G at night, having an inour at noon for lunch: work Sundays and week days, but hav nolidays during each month. I talked with Mr. Mitant as to the prices of the rugs, and it is wonderful how cheap- ly they can be made. Take a rug three Kookkeeper. feet wide by six feet long of the kind that used for hearth rugs in the United n sold at home four days and whi one The jute has to be imported. It must pay a duty on coming into Japan, and the rugs, I think, pay a duty on going into America. Alto- gether out of this $2.25 there come about nd the wages are so | n afford to make them. some very ¢ ton rugs are g which fixteen pre ous rugs now. and cheap, though the best, very closely woven, cost about as much as our imitation Smyrna rugs. The New Japanese Matting. I talked some time with Mr. George Flood, the head of the American firm, about the matting industry which has recently sprung up in Japan, and which is now driving the Chinese matting out of our markets. He says that it is only four or five years now since the Japanese began to export this article, and that we already take 250,000 rolls a year. The matting comes from near Hiroshima, where the emperor Ims been holding his court dur- Matting Store. ing the war-with China. It has been used for years by the Japanese as a covering for their floors, but it was made only in white patterns and the mats were put to- gether in the form of cushions about three feet wide’and six feet long, and the houses were so built that a number of these mats just fitted into each room, and the size of a room in Japan is known by the num- ber of mats it takes to cover it. China vs. Japan. I asked Mr. Flood as to what was to be the future of this matting industry. He rephed: “I believe it will eventually drive the Chinese matting out of the market. It is much prettier thar the Chinese mat- ting. It is clean and healthy. The cheap- est varieties can be put into America for about 7 cents a yard, though the more ex- pensive kinds are, of course, very much dearer. As I said before, it’ was almost an unknown industry fiye years ago, but it now employs thousands of men’ and Women, and there are whole counties which practically live off of it.” “Japan’s trade with America seems to be increasing,” said I. “Yes, it is,” was the reply, “and it will continue to increase. The Japanese are stidying the world, and they are‘going to make all sorts of ¢ goods. They make as fine paper as you can find in America, and their silk trade ts good. There are 120,000 silk looms in Kiota, and they now compete with France in ail kinds of silk. It would surprise you to know the number of curios that are sent away from here. There is one firm in New York which im- ports $150,000 worth every year, and you find them’ for sale in all the stores in America. I have never seen anything like these Japanese. They are wonders in the way of industry. The whole family works, and the more the children the bigger the income. Japan is, in fact, about the most Prosperous country in the world today. re are practically no beggars, and the people are happy and well-to-do. ‘The gen- eral idea of Japan is that it is made up of fans, pretty girls and curio shops. This is a great mistake. These are but the in- cidents of the life of Japan. This is a big business nation, and it is business from the word go. The chief industries of the coun- try are devoted to supplying the goods which the pecple need for themselves, and the curio merchants are like the antiquity dealers of other countries, and do not con- stitute a big business part of the nation.” Something About Japanese Silks. There are quite a number of Americans in Japan who are now engeged in buying silks and shipping them to the United Siates. Several large tactories have lately SS Japanese Masons at Cents n Da been erected. One which was built a year or so ago cost half a million dollars, and it is cperated largely by women and girls, who receive from 10 to 20 cents per day wages. The best of the male operator are paid about 50 cents per day, and th pecple are working with modern machinery Japar. is now importing quite a large num- ber of cocoons, and she raises them by the ton every year. I was very much interest- ed in the process. It is different from that used in China, The eggs of the silkworm are placed on pieces of paper and hung up in @ warm room about five feet above the floor. As soon as they are hatched they are sprinkled with bran made from millet, and efter a short time they are fed with mulberry leaves, which are cut up into little bits, and the pieces are increased in size as the worms grow. The fed eight times every twenty-four hours at first, and as they get older their meal are cut down to four. It takes 2,000 pour of mulberry leaves to feed the number of silkworms hatched from one sheet of eggs, which varies from 45,000 to 69,000 in num- ber, and the frames ‘upon which they are lnid have to be charged every day. must be Kept in warm rooms, 7 eat their biggest meals at night. Whe they are fullgrown they begin to make their cceoons, and the butterflies are de- stroyed in the cocoons, from which the silk ving. is to be made. The caterpillars and butter- flies are often killed by steaming the cocoons, and the cocoons are sorted so as to have the silk of an even fineness and color. The cocoons are boiled before they eled, and there is 2 vast deal of work ing a single thread of silk. As to ing of silk, the greater part of it is still dong by hand and by the rudest sort of machinery. The motive power for turning the reels of some of the factories consists of men who walk around in a cir- cle like a horse in a tannery, pushing two poles, which, by a series of ‘cogs, run the works in the rooms below. These men re ceive about 10 cents a day for their work,: and the silk reelers, who are skilled labor- ers, get about 15 cents a day. There are two Sorts of looms on which the sili is woven, and these looms are of the rudest construction. The wemen do the most of weaving, and silk crape is made by ing two threads in opposite directions, thus producing the crinkly appearance of the texture. The most of the silk used in Japan fs for {ts own people, and you find large silk stores in all of the cities, and there is hardly a girl n Japan who has not a silk dress. We have an idea that the people are Icud in their clothes. This is a mis- take. The ladies of Japan seldom appear on the street except in the most quiet col- ors, and the Japanese gentlemen wear soft and black. One of these Osaka silk stores has dozens of clerks, who squat down cn the floor when they’ sell you the goods. There are no counters. The book- Keeper sits flat on the floor and figures all his calculstions on a box of wooden buttons strung upon wires. He moves these up and down, end can tell you the price in a mo- ment, and he seldom makes a mistake. New Japanese Industries. A number of new industries are making cheir way into Japan, and « great deal of Japanese wallpaner is now shipped to America. It looks much like Lincrusta Walton, and some of it has the appearance of leather. I believe that the Japanese let- ter paper would sell well in the United States. It shines itke silk, and it is won- derfully strong. Indeed, some of the sheets made at the government paper mill near Tokyo are so tough that a man can stand in the center of the sheet and be lifted up by others who have hold of the corners. There is a big modern paper mill now in Kobe, Japan, and the wrapping paper of the country is much finer than anything we have. It is as soft as cloth, and they have a way of making the paper so that it has all the qualities of cloth, and is by no means offensive to one’s touch when used as handkerchiefs. Japan is now pub- lishing some of the most beautiful books of the world, and there is an establishment in Tokyo which will compare in size with these of our big publishers’. The prices for printing and engraving are wonderfully cheap, and I believe that our offices could make money by having their plates pre- pared in Japan and printed there or here. I den't know as to the copyright law in this respect, but yoa can get the finest of balf-tone work, such as is used in best magazine illustrations, for 15 ce per square inch in American money. Such tl- lustrations cost from 40 to 50 cents per square inch in this country. Japanese Candics, It is a wonder to me that the Japanese candy is not imported into the United States. I believe that some enterprising man, like the fellow who got up these di- gesting chewing gums, could make a for- tune by shipping a Japanese sweet which is known as midzuame into the United States. This is a delicious candy, much more palatable than gumdrops, of and Young Laborers, about the same nature. It is said to be ex- cellent for dyspepsia, and some people take it after their meals. ‘It is made also in the form of a sirup, and it looks like a thick golden molasses, and is much better to the taste. It could be used for cakes, and the babies could eat it without danger. It is made from rice and wheat, and it is he- lieved that the same sweet ‘could be made here from Indian corn. Other candiss are made of beans, and all of these sweets could be imported to the United States and sold at good prices. There is hardly any- thing we use that the Japanese could not make cheaper than we do, and there are very few things which they could not make as well. They are now building watch fa torigs. The wages are so remarkably low, and their workingmen can live like lords on what our laborers would starve on, Some Japanese Ecouomi, ‘The people of the far east have nothing like our wants. A workingman can furnish his house there for less than $10, and th save in every possible way. It is a very poor American laborer indeed who has not $50 worth of furniture in his house. He has tables that cost all the way from $2 to $10 apiece. His chairs cost him from 50 cents upwa His carpets are expensive, and his cooking stove eats a big hole into a month’s wages. The Japanese uses oniy matting, and he carpets his house of two or three rooms for as many doliars. His pots, pans and stoves cost him, all told, not more then $1.50, and I have seen it esti- mated that a couple can go to housekeeping on $5.50, Chopsticks by no means so ex. pensive as knives and forks, and his pillow are of wood, costing about a couple of ceni apiece. has no bed, and he sleeps on the floor, and so you ‘see that he saves every way. Think of the saving on rocking | and lounges! Take all the beds an & s in America. t they wore str: ings were thrown Suppose our stoc s that only ¢ and we used foot mitte as high as the ankles. Suppose for next ten years the 65,410,000 people of the nited States would not need to w derclothing, off of beefsteak pensive meats, we should confine oursetve to rice, fish, vegetables and tea. You can see what an immense saving there would be. Remember, I do not advocate these changes, but they enter as factors in the competition which is bound to ensue with these people of Asia in the future, when, by modern machinery, they will begin to manufacture for the world. The Laborer's Daily Life. I asked some questions in western Japan as to how the working people I I was told that nearly every man had his own cottage or house, and that the rent was | sometimes as low as 4) cents a month, and Making Cloisonne. the house somet es sts of only one room. Still, it is wonderful hi people are, and how laugh work. The ave and has his bre and tea. The ric may huve been left over from 1 dinner. He pours hot tes upon it to wa it and eats it w ticks. At S he gins work has a lur rice, furn eats his plenty of ric if they are in In the smokes, chats ps with t bors, and probably gces to bed « has two suits of cloth and the other for holt public bath about once @ day, a perboils himself in conection wit! other men and women ef his acquaint for about eight- Ther are 800) pul which 300,15) cost of 1 cent a hi in ople ba J, and thought man may omit his dinner, he will seldom omit his bath. You find public baths fn all the cities and these full every evening. oth men and wemen bathe together in the country districts, and a whole family goes | to the bath house, and babies and all | steam themselves until their pores are clean. Within the last few years there has been a separation of the sexes in the big city bath houses, but it has only been by running a fence about three fect high through the pools, and the men bathe on one side, while the women wash them- selves on the other. Something Abont Wages. Iam told that wages have been increas- ing since the modern civilization has come into Japan, but they are still very low, and the reduction in the price of silver Just about cuts them in half. The figures which follow are in Japanese currency, and if phe, were in American money they would just half of what is here given: Com- mon laborers receive from 10 to 20 cents a day, and the men who pull carts and practically take the place of our dray orses get from 10 to 15 cents. In the cities the prices are higher than these, but farm laborers often receive less than 16 cents a day. Carpenters get from 40 to 50 cents. Head cartmen receive from 25 to 40 cents a day, and paperhangers get from 40 cents upward. Blacksmiths are paid from 23 to 388 cents, and painters about the me. I saw many boys working for about (0 cents a day, and I was told that the clerks in the stores who got $15 a month thought they were doing exceedingly well. Many clerks work for their board and their clothes, with the understanding that after an apprenticeship of about ten years tho merchant will give them a small stock of goods and allow them to start out for themselves. A CHRISTMAS VENTURE BY LOUISE R. BAKER. Written Exclusively for The Eviniag, Star. T= JEN KINSES must go back to the city fer their Christ- mas. It Seems there ain't no pore yer in the country fer to satisfy ‘em, and they’te ‘accustomed to segin’ to the pore at holiday times.’ Miss + Pendraggon concluded with a sniff, but there had been a certain unac- countable envy run- ning through her words. The fact is, that during her whole life Miss Pendraggon had set the country up against the city. She had said that eatables in the city were “stale,” she had refused to taste “city beef," she had never failed to answer a charge in which the city was placed be- fore the country, But her next door neigh- bors had returned to the city to spend their Christmas, declaring it didn’t seem like Christmas in the country, where there were no poor to be made happy. “There's people round yer pore as any- wheres, ain't there, Louysy?” inquired Miss Pendraggon, pausing on her way to the cookingstove with a pan of “small cakes “I said I reckon ef they was willin’ fer to scour the woods they wouldn't hey no call fer to return to town.” “Dar plenty po’ people in de woods,” an- swered Louysy, with a giggle. “Ef de Jenkinses done ast me fo’ to show ‘em de way to de po’ people dey: wouldn't got so fur’s de town. But in de city I ‘specks dey do tend to ‘em betta’n dey tends to ‘em out yer. Dey don’ tend to ’em none out yer, fur’s I kin see.” “I ain't asked you fer none o’ yer sass, Louysy Parker,” said Miss Pendraggon, loftily. “What L want is fer you to carry me along to the porest folks in the woods a Christmas Eve. I mean white folks; nig- gers always enjoy themselves festival times,” “I know who yo’ mean,” eried Louysy, with sudden enthusiasm. “Yo’ mean Jawn Carter, who done moved from the Black Hills on a wheelbo'r. Dey got a whole pacel o' chillen and two little twins. He were down yer to de storg tryin’ fer to buy three cents’ wuth o’ meat.” “Louysy Parker,” screamed Mi: draggon, “air you tellin’ the truth? “Dat's de tale dey tells down to de store,” repeated Louysy, firmly. “Dey got two lit- tle twins fo’ shore, Miss Pendraggon, and las’ summer de woman were cookin’’on a pile o’ stones wid a sheet o' tin laid across de t After this piece of information Louysy Parker became convulsively inco- herent. “'Tain’t nothin’ to laugh at, dare knows,” remarked Miss Pendraggon, “but to think the Jenkinses leavin’ the woods behind ain't never give nothin’ to the pore efore, Louysy,” she continued, I ain't never gone around to ; but I reckon ef the Jenkinses kin have sech a rollickin’ time 'mongst Pen- the pore in the city me and/you kin try our luck with the pore in the wods,” “Wot yo" gunno give dg man?” asked Louysy, curious!: ‘ This question Was a puzzler. With the best intentions in the world, Miss Pendrag- gon didn’t know what to give the man. She had, on occasion, made presentations to men out of the weods, gloves and muf- flers, even a cigar case. S "she cried, ‘entrgateningly, m I ter to give the man in the I'd give him flannel shirt “The Jenkinses gives thin ” said Louysy. like that. I'd give him two flannel ghirts high in the neck, with wrist “Very weil,” said M gndraggon, with a sigh of relic » Jenkinges can af- to make a pore man wari a C 1 don't what's 10 prevent the same. nat yo’ gunno give de woman?” asked Louysy. ‘Kf [fix the man up warm a Christma sald Miss Pendraggon, “I ain't jet the woman go cold. I want ive these people in the woods a bet- * Christmas than the Jenkinses gives to > pore in town, I know as we'll hey to up a basket, Louysy.” : d Louysy, “cakes and r, and tea, and brad, rist- me and chic $ a-wond axon, “ef yo interrupted Miss as gunno say tur- 0, Louysy Parker, | stop short afore to turkey. I'll give ‘em a chicking; t I hold a Christmas turkey jest a ne pore people in the woods.” gunno give the two little » other chillen, Miss Pendrag- piles toys on de chil- crie 's Pendraggon, fire “Well, I kin pile toys on 'em, ggon w that endra raggon hesitated displayed upon the v s doubtful in reg ; doll. ong; it 1 dont s fer a “but I've got s I kin pay ibtful over t to herse din the ex they're the , new cloth: and toys he besket was proj . was Lo he people of the “plact’ lraggon’s “quare te along in a fierce trot and d@ the hill. ‘They commented wp and bundle and cony with ber fe turning tow clue as to R ing; the people of the “pladt” were not in the habit of visiting the poor, “You're sure you know the way,Louy: The cart had got safely through a though several times it had threatened to turn over, It was jogging along in the woods, the weels almost sunk to the hubs in the wet leaves. 3 m, dis de way,” replied Louysy, yy Parker, nobody lives tn that Miss Pendraggon had drawn the forward in me on a fool's e Louysy’s che lookin’ at de g he expla’ tn to de oder winie house. ’Tain’ got no 5 Miss Pendrasgon dre from between the bas! jumped from the c work tying the horse. She said afterward that she.couldn’t tell just how she felt when she saw that pretense of a curtain at the one little dingy window; only she “for- got clean all about the Jeniinses.” She remem ses when she stood kno wouyey,” she ang out. “You" Miss Pendrag. Don't yo" see de cur- "Course dis de right n patch, has it?” jo ces timidly, “I don’t know how fer 0 act.” But Louysy Parker at this supreme mo- ment was unabie to offer advice. f The door of the little house opened and Miss Pendraggon, carrying the basket, walked in. Louysy followed with the bun- dl ‘I heered there was a lot o’ little chii- dren, and I thought I'd like to bring 'em a Christmas gift,” faltered the rival of the Jenkinses, catching sight, in the gloom, of two faces, a man’s and a woman's, and turning from one to the other. Then Miss Pendraggon set the basket awkwardly on the floor and Louysy crept up and placed the bundle beside the basket. - Gradually Miss Pendraggon became customed to the dim light; she beheld the woman shoving toward her a block cut from the woods and understood that it was a ‘cheer,” and that she was being ask- ed to sit down, At the same time she be- came conscious of the presence of a little girl and boy regarding her wonderingly. But it was a vision of the twins that re- stored Miss Pendraggon’s scattered wits, one little bit of a white face somewhere in the region of the man’s arms and another little bit of a white face, now hidden, now revealed, in the midst of two flourishing arms and legs right in the center of the big rumpled bed. “Laws, Louysy Parker,’ she screamed, “look at the twins; they’s too little fer their Christiias present, me little gal and boy'll hev to git ’em all. ‘The oecond mention of the Christmas presents brought a certain cheer and bustle into the little house. Miss Pendraggon took off the cover of the basket, and the next minute Jawn Carter's daughter, with a lightening up of her brown eyes, held out her arms for the ten-cent doll. i “And yer’s some’n fer the boy, sald Miss Pendraggon. “My! he’s skeered at it: She was terribly disappointed to see Rob- bie Carter backing briskly from the calico bunny. “Well, Bro’ Rabbit'll hey fer to set yer all by himself on the floor.’ As Miss Pendraggon in turn backed from the rab- bit, Robbie Carter came forward, stooped from his waist and gathered his bunny close to his loving little breast. Then Robbie re- treated to the side of his small sister. A faint glow from the back window poured into the house in the woods and fell upon the two children, the girl clasping her doll, the boy embracing his bunny. Miss sos draggon was towering high above the block cut from the woods, her hands were clasped loosely together, her yen eee shining. ‘Laws! ain't they too cute!” she cried. She had again “clean forgot the niinses."” ee ‘when Miss Pendraggon inquired the names and ages of the twins that Louysy Farker took her turn at backing; she backed altogether out of the house and stood, giggling, at the foot of the steps, waiting for her mistress. The little sic! twin, that the man held in his arms, ane called Charlotty Lucindy, and the little well twin, cutting capers on the bey, Mary Magdalen, “named from the Bit pat “Tm sorry they wasn’t all fixed up,’ r. 79yibe Pendraggon found herself Lets amiably arourd upon Jawn Carter anil ie family, found herself saying quite fluently that one couldn't have a real Christmas without children, found herself patting the little white face of Mary Magdalen while Mrs. Carter emptied tHe contents of the big basket beside Mary Magdalen on the bed, found herself, and this was strangest of all, looking into the grateful face of Jawn Carter and warmly sympathizing with him for not being “over strong’’ and able to work the “six days out o° the “| hope you'll hev a merry Christma: said Miss Pendraggon giving a final bow. She heid the empty basket in her hands, her eyes swept a farewell glance, full of Chrisimas blessings, to the boy and irl and the merry little twin, then they rested kindly upon the baby in the man’s arms. “I hope as Almiry Lucrechy "lL git well soon like tother’n,” she murmured. “Won't you please, mam, tell me who you af Miss Pendraggon had thought the man’s face grateful, but she had never seen anything as glad as the eyes of the woman confronting her. “Laws, I ain't nobody but Ann Pendrag- gon,” she said, apologeticall: “I live on the big road beyond the village, next house to the Jenkinses. Louysy Parker, yer, she showed me the way through the woods.” “Why'n you tell ‘em we alls was de Kris- kingle?” said Louysy, giggling softly as she followed her mistress to the cart. “Dey'd neva found out no betta livin’ off yer in de woods.” “Louysy, the good will o’ the Lord was with us, or we'd not got back safe over them roads,” remarked Miss Pendragon haif an hour later. Then she lookedvat her hand-maiden seriously. “I weren't used to it, Louysy,” she said, “lands sakes! how did T act?” “Yo' seemed’s ef yo" was enjoyin’ yo'se’f,” returned Louysy. I couldn't he'p but laugh. I thought yo’ was gunno spend the whole evenin’. Yo" seemed’s ef yo’ was enjoyin’ ‘f powaful. ‘Louysy Parker,” said Miss Pendraggon truthfully, “do you know I was enjoyin’ myself.” “Wien I seen yo' fingerin’ dat leetle twin,” said Louysy, with a fresh flow of hysterical mirth, “I done conclude I best stay out de house. I knowed de Jenkinses wan't neva gunno beat dat.” “A city person couldn’t have driven over them roads,” soliloquized Miss Pendragon. “I'd like fo’ to see ‘em try,” cried the tri- umphant Louysy. ‘“Dey'd got stuck in de hor hed de wheels tore off or some'n.” n to the surprise of the excited and nappy Louysy, Miss Pendraggon heaved a decp sigh. She had picked up a bit of red merino from her work-basket and was shredding it nervously. “City and coun- try,” she said decidedly, ‘we're all as mean as dirt. Ef we wasn't nary man would ever hev invented them ten-cent dolls.” That quick lighting up of two brown cyes had followed her out of the woods, Jawn Mttle girl was holding out her her first doll. “Them continued Miss Pen- they was both alike, I r to think the one was better’n the other, but I knowed all the time it wasn't, but there was the biggest kind 0’ diffe enee between the dolls. The one were strong and made fer to last, the other Jest hed its arms fastened on fer to come ‘off. I want that balmoral took back and ex- I want that there tifty-cent doll. unno set up tonight and dress the and I’m gunno send ft over first thing morning to them pore people in the i want it to git there ‘fore that lit- 1 has cried her heart out ’ e off at the tetch. Parker walked very slowly up the m the store with the balmoral under m and the fifty-cent doll under the In a dim sort of way she compre- d that no matter what became of the nses—and some people said they were to move back to town altogether— tier what became of the Jenkinses, Pendraggon would not relinquish the shts of Kriskingling with a single Christmas venture. s (Ss FOR SE TICK ATS IN CHURCH. Exper! nt Made by the ple's Temple in Boston, s of the People’s Temple, enue and Berkeley street, Bos- h the Rev. James Boyd Brady ve been trying the experiment reserved { tickets for the evening services. The innovation pat success m > congregation have st choice of seats, and then the pub- admitted. This action was made ary in erder to accommodate the "s own members and contributors ve been crowded out by the im- nse increase in the general tendance. Aithough the auditorium holds *W people it has of late been crowded to the doors y evening: st plan has not only added ma- > comfort of the regular mem- it has tended to make transient permanent, thus increasing the re- s of the church. ———+ee Out of Training. From the Indlanapolis Journal, “Slow comes it that you didn’t publish that article of mine on my Alpine climbing yeriences? I mailed it to you a week . We never got it. Probably the stamp came off. Why didn’t you bring it around to us?” “{ did come around, but the elevator wasn't ing. Do you suppose I am go- ing to climb all the way up four filghts of stairs when a postage stamp only costs two cents Col ton, of as pro’ ‘The o—— Her Stay in Parts, From the New York Weekly. Mrs. D'Avnoo—"I advertised for a French nurse. Applicant—“Oi hov been in France, mum.” ‘ot very long, I guéss “No, mum; Of only shtayed long enough to get the accint.” ' DECLINE OF POLYGAMY IN UTAH. Social Amalgamation of Gentiles and Mormons—New Conditions of Thi Glen Miller in Forum. With the division of the Mormons on na- tional party lines, the renunciation of their obnoxious creed and the inauguration of “the era of good feeling” in Utah,there has been a complete cessation of prosecutions for polygamy; and numbers of old-time offenders have resumed relation with their “plural” wives, with practical immunity from punishment. But the prop of polyg- amy, its social respectability and exalta- tion as a religious virtue, has been taken away. These old polygamists visit their younger wives precisely as a married man in an eastern community might consort with a mistress—quietly and stealthily, not openly or botstfully as formerly. Their conduct is under the ban of the church, and since.it ig no longer justified by a reli- gious principle, is regarded simply as an affair of lust or of affection for former associations too strong to withstand. We find a close analogy to this condition of things in the prohibition states, where, in spite of stringent laws, the old toper un- dergoes any humiliation to secure his fa- vorite beverage. Human nature does not differ greatly in New York, Massachusetts, Kansas or Utah. But, with the passing away of the present generation, the last Yestige of polygamy will disappear. No edict of the clfurch could restore it. An insurmountable barrier in the way of its resumption is arising in the social amalga- mation of Gentiles and Mormons. Inter- marriages between the two classes have rapidly increased under the new condi- tions. Within a decade the distinguished characteristics of Mormonism will be no stronger in Utah than the distinguishing characteristics of Catholicism, Presbyter- ianism or Methodism. — NEW WAY OF WASHING. Less “Elbow Grease” Applied Than by the Old Method. From the Milwaukee Journal. “I have found,” said one of those mod- ern housekeepers whose ideas would hor- rify her maternal anéestors if they could but hear them, “that elbow grease, when applied to laundry work, is not the much to be praised thing that I have always been brought up to believe it was, and that in some cases it is a detriment to suc- cessful and careful washing. By dint of many experiments I have discovered that a small table or a flat board and a soft, small scrubbing brush will work wonders. I can take an ordinary garment with collar and sleeves badly soiled and cleanse it by this process in one-third of the time and with infinitely less hard work than the average laundress. I make a mixture of soap and kerosene oi] and let it stand over night, or prepare it and keep it in a stoppered jug or bottle. With a soft brush rub the collar and cuffs and all of the soiled places, then roll the garment up for a few minutes while others are being done. When all are prepared, begin with the first and rinse and brush the ‘surface with hot soapsuds. In nine cases out of ten the garment will need no further rub- bing. I do not approve of clothes being merely scalded. They need not be boiled for any length of time, but should bave about one or three minutes in actually boiling suds. This dissolves any gummy substances that may not rub out of the fibers, and makes the clothes more clean and certainly more healthful. Clothes soaked over night in warm suds made with the soap and kerosene mixture will wash easier and look better, to say nothing of wearing much longer, than those Jaundried in the ordinary way ees ee. side UNCONSCIOUS MONOLOGISTS. Victims of the Difficulty of Hearing Oneself Think in This City. Erom the New York Sun. “I cannot say whether I shall make any detailed and professional use of my ob- servations,” said a neurologist, “but I do not mind telling you in a general way that New Yorkers are fast becoming a race of unconscious monologists—that is, of talkers to themselves without knowing It. Go down into the business quarter of the city and just watch the people there. I have not got my percentages together yet, but it is safe to say, roundly, that you will see nearly half the people exhibiting some of the forms of the disease—for, of course, it is a disease. They are either moving their lips, wagging their heads, puckering their eyebrows, making gestures with their hands, or doing something, while in a great number of cases they are busy ca! rying on imaginary conversations between themselves and somebody else, laying down the laws with much emphasis, read- ing the riot act to some one, or else meet- ing imaginary issues with circumstantial replies. “You will see men doing the same thing in hotel lobbies, in the street cars and on the uptown thoroughfares. Women are falling into the habit also, but not so much as men. The other day, while I was wait- ing for my coupe, I sat at the office win- dow, and I declare that, out of the sev- enty-five people who passed, eight were showing some signs of monologania. “Of course, the primal cause of the dis- ease is that we never allow our minds any period of repose. We are so eternally full of plans and schemes that anything like a quiescent mood is unknown, and that condition of morbid mental activity super- venes, which in turn is followed by a dis- tinct weakeneing of the censory cells, of which condition self-communication is al- ways one ei the symptoms. ‘At the same time, it must not be over- looked that undoubtedly much of the habit is due to the fact that this city is so thun- dering full of noise that one cannot hear one’s self thik, and so people have to think aloud.” Satisfactorily Arranged. From Life. Jones—‘My wife prefers linen sheets and I prefer cotton.” —‘How do you manage?” ‘How's that Robit son. Jones—"Well, we—er—compromise on cot- ton.” ay go grease and indigestion— that’s why physicians con- demn modern lard. Hand in hand go health and Cot- tolene—that’s why Coftolene has received the endorse- ment of the leading lights of the medical profession. 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Ok RISTMAS DAY —1s—emphatically— CHILDREN’S DAY. —Therefore coutribute to the happiness @ren to the extent of your means You thereby “cast your bread upon the waters, which—if your life is prolouged—will surely retura unto you. “ONCE A MAN—TWICE A CHILD.” Give of your substance freely; do not hoard your gold with miserly avarice for the sordid pleasu-e of handling the’ glittering coin and gloating over the possession of it; and then “Old, and worn, and withered, to creep Over the bridge of gold to a grave and weep.”” —Soften your heart, unloose your purse strings, bring the bright-eyed, curly- laughing, lov- ing, rollicking boys, full of mirth and mischief, to cur establishment, take them into our Juvenile Department on the second floor. Let their eyes rove over the bright, beautiful, and brilliant array of Juvenile Suits see the happiness depicted on thelr countenances, hear their merry, rippling laughter, listen to thei cheery voices, as they burry and skurry from one counter to apother, choosing this, that, and the other suit, until, thoroughly confused and exhausted, they ieturn panting to mamma,papa, grandmamma, grapdpapa, auntie, or uncle, with the childish im- serrogatory: “Which do you like best?” ‘This is what we call— CHRISTMAS SHOPFING MADE PLEASANT, For your information, we want to say, with post- sive empbasis_on each and every word, that our Juvenile Suit Department AY THB PEER OF ANY OTHER IN THIA PRY, ‘Go into ‘every other store; look the stocks over ard, , but DO NUT BUY before coming ‘Overcoats—$5.%, $6.75, $7.50, $10, upw: Suits—$5.73, $7.50, $10, upward. Suits—Long’ Pants--$2.50, $5.50, $4.50, up- Sults—Short Pants—$1.£0, $2, $2.75, $3, up Overcoats—-§2, $2.50, $3, upward. Tictor E. 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It will the softening effect of the old-time log fire, We have received a new invoice of Parlor, Librars, Piano and Ranquet Lamps, from which you can choose @ very “Holi cliday Gift. Onyx Tables, Artiste’ # vaneat and ther Gh brances M6 UTA & 00.8, azi-21a 418 ‘7TH ST. N. ies, Bron. ide’ rewens: