1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
edffe of its body’s cleanliness. No mat¬ 
ter of how indigent a household it 
forms a part, one may be sure that as 
far as water—dangerously near 212 de¬ 
grees Fahrenheit—can avail, the glossy 
bambino is spruce and kissable. Japan¬ 
ese parents are by no means selfishly 
content with their own marvellously 
regular semi-daily ablutions. The water 
used in them must all but boil before it 
is credited with cleansing properties. 
The family bathings we read and hear so 
much about may be seen any mild after¬ 
noon in actual progress under the wide- 
open, tilted-roof, toy like sheds in the 
fanciful gardens—sheds that shut out 
absolutely no eye save that of the hotly 
inquisitive sun. And here, at least twice 
in 24 hours, the careful father and mother 
dip the little ones in the bath quite to the 
tips of their pink ears. This is done on 
days and occasions that are of no moment. 
But, be assured, if the flimsiest excuse 
present itself, as, for example, that the 
day is an auspicious one of any kind—if 
merely as far as the donning of new 
gowns is concerned—that excuse is in¬ 
vested with an enthusiasm really aroused, 
it would seem, for the purpose of plung¬ 
ing the youngster a third, and not in¬ 
frequently a fourth time in the tub ! 
“ The Japanese baby—if I may be per¬ 
mitted to employ the seeming paradox— 
I will placard as the most ludicrously 
polite individuality I have ever had the 
diverting chance to behold. It is a sore 
fret within the American maternal bo¬ 
soms—and in Japan they are many and 
worthy—that the children of Nippon’s 
upper classes are disciplined to a point 
bordering on cruelty. But I consider 
this irritation to be needless. It is diffi¬ 
cult for me, remembering the tender¬ 
ness of childhood, to believe but that if 
these pliant, lithesome, dandiprat, gold¬ 
en-rod backs were really burdened, they 
would bend. And nothing of the bend¬ 
ing nature is anywhere discernible in 
the Land of the Bising Sun. Quite the 
contrary. All who have given disinter¬ 
ested thought to these beams of baby- 
dom must grant me, sans argument, their 
vitality, their blithesomeness and their 
joyous spontaneity. 
“ The disinterested observers to whom 
I have just appealed must concede me 
something more. These Japanese nest¬ 
ings tickle our fancy and provoke our 
mirth. They are like their own coun¬ 
try’s world-renowned emblematic and 
prodigally tinted flowers of the amber 
fall. They come bursting and blooming 
into our lives with the freshness of that 
queen of the Kiku (chrysanthemums) 
known as the ‘Golden Dew.’ On their 
first introduction they allure and arrest 
us with that low, deferential, comically 
serious prostration of their diminutive 
bodies which invariably accompanies the 
vivacious ‘ Ohyo! ’ — Good-day ! They 
snare and win us entirely by that even 
lower prostration which must, according 
to the Japanese code of etiquette, attend 
the slow, dulcet, Italian-sounding ‘ Say- 
onara ! ’—Good-by ! And then they coax 
us into good-natured laughter (received 
in the same spirit of courtesy) with ex¬ 
travagant sibilation or long in-drawn 
hiss, which is the universal method of 
politely giving emphasis to an awed re¬ 
gard when they are personally addressed. 
And now I renew my appeal to the fair- 
minded observer, who will surely own 
that eventually the Wee Ones insinuate 
themselves, via some rosy undreampt-of 
route, into the affections. If departure 
from Japan should be contemplated for 
any length of time, the traveler who 
would remain ‘ heart whole and fancy 
free ’ must take warning. He positively 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children she gave them Castorla 
must not allow his mind to dwell upon 
the Wee Ones of that archipelago of 
witcheries.” 
CHEAPENING THE MAGAZINES. 
IME was when a high-class maga¬ 
zine was considered a luxury, not 
often to be indulged in, especially in the 
farm home. Of late years the purchas¬ 
ing power of most of the farmer’s pro¬ 
duce has been diminishing, while maga¬ 
zine prices have been maintained. With¬ 
in the past few months, however, one of 
the leading magazines has dropped a 
bomb in the ranks of publishers by re¬ 
ducing its price to $1.50 per year. Oue 
or two others not so well known have 
matched this price, while another, a lit¬ 
tle smaller, but filled with interesting 
matter of good quality, profusely illus¬ 
trated and nicely printed on good paper, 
has put its price at $1 a year. 
Commenting on these facts, the St. 
Louis Republic assumes that the other 
periodicals will necessarily have to lower 
their prices in order to compete with 
these. It says that the cause of the 
whole change is to be found in the size 
and excellence of the Saturday and Sun¬ 
day papers. 
The Rochester Post-Express would not 
be surprised if this were so. The news¬ 
papers, very cheap, but filled with all 
kinds of interesting reading, long ago 
compelled the magazines to present bet¬ 
ter pictures, better articles and more 
attractive looking books to the public. 
The periodicals were improved to a won¬ 
derful extent. No writer was too good 
to be asked to write for a magazine ; no 
article was too costly : no paper too fine, 
no artist too skillful to be employed in 
this work. It may be said that the im¬ 
provement in the magazines went as far 
as it could, and when a leading monthly 
of to-day is compared to some old-fash¬ 
ioned periodical—to Murray’s Monthly, 
for instance, which isn’t so very old— 
the extent of this improvement is real¬ 
ized. 
But the newspapers were improving, 
too. They grew in size and in excellence, 
and there was no increase in price. It 
became no rare thing to find a metropoli¬ 
tan Saturday or Sunday paper with 
nearly as many pages as a magazine ; and 
as the pages are larger and the print is 
finer, this is equivalent to saying that 
the newspaper presented to it readers as 
much, or more, matter than did the mag¬ 
azine. Then the quality of this matter 
improved. Famous writers, essayists, 
novelists and poets, who had formerly 
written now and then for the magazines, 
were induced to write quite as often for 
the papers. The great newspaper syn¬ 
dicates were able to bid as high for a de¬ 
sirable article as the richest magazines ; 
and an elaborate system of clipping and 
exchanging gave the better journals the 
choice of all the newspaper articles in 
the country. As a result writers were 
eager to do their best, confident that a 
really good article would not—could not 
—stop at the paper in which it first ap¬ 
peared. Only the writer’s own ability 
limited the extent of his public. 
But one point, aside from convenience 
of form and excellence of paper, re¬ 
mained on which the magazines pos¬ 
sessed an advantage over the news¬ 
papers. This was in the quality of the 
illustrations. Printed on slow presses, 
the magaziue pictures came out better 
than those which were printed on the 
fast presses of the daily papers. The pic¬ 
tures themselves might be no better, but 
the reproduction was better. Now even 
this field is invaded. Secret processes, 
zinc plates and photo-engraving have 
been invented, and the magazines are at 
last compelled to admit the rivalry, to 
openly enter the field of competition, 
and lower their prices. Of course, there 
has been a side rivalry between the mag¬ 
azines, just as there has been between 
Mothers. —Be sure to use ‘ ‘ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.—Adu. 
I I 
the newspapers; but it is altogether 
likely that it is the newspapers that 
have forced down the magazine prices. 
No one can safely predict what the final 
outcome will be. Probably there is room 
both for the big newspapers and the 
magazines, but it is likely that the two 
will grow further apart, and that the 
specializing tendency already evident in 
sume of the big periodicals will become 
more marked. 
Roast Oysters, according to the culinary 
authority of the Evening Post, make a 
very nice course to serve after bouillon at 
dinner or luncheon. Roast the oysters 
in the shell, first washing them thor¬ 
oughly with a sc.ub-brush. Lay them 
in a large tin with the round side of the 
shells down, so that as the shells open 
the liquor of the oyster will not be lost. 
When the shells open, take the oysters 
from the oven. Take off the upper shells 
quickly, sprinkle them with a little salt, 
pepper and chopped parsley, and s“rve 
on a bed of watercresses. Serve hot. 
Some Jcnness-Mlller Dont’s.— Don’t—if 
you have a pale complexion—wear a 
light gray or tan felt hat, because it will 
give you the effect of being sallow. If 
you must have it a light shade to match 
your dress, line the inside with dark vel¬ 
vet, which will make your skin look fair. 
Apropos of hats, the rule holds go ,d that 
an untrimmed brim is trying to all save 
the most youthful faces, whereas a pleat¬ 
ing, or even a fold of velvet, imparts a 
look of softness. 
Don’t—if you are blonde, brunette or 
medium—be afraid of wearing yellow. 
There is surely one shade of that color 
which will suit you and bring out all the 
pink in your skin ; if you are sallow, it 
would make you look white. 
Disinfecting Furniture.— Good Health 
insists that in the disinfection of rooms 
everything which has been in the room 
during its occupancy by a case of infec¬ 
tious disease should remain during the 
disinfection: all pictures, upholstered 
furniture, organs, and similar articles, 
which are likely to be injured by a fumi¬ 
gation, should be removed before the 
patient is put into the room. An organ 
would probably be utterly ruined by the 
fumigation, as would an ordinary gilt 
picture frame, as the sulphur fumes 
would attack the metal reeds, and would 
be likely to take all the gilding from the 
picture frames. Such articles may be 
disinfected by other means, as, for ex¬ 
ample, by wiping with a five per cent 
solution of carbolic acid or a 1 2000 solu¬ 
tion of corrosive sublimate. Corrosive 
sublimate will discolor metal articles 
with which it is brought in contact; it 
can be used only for wood furniture or 
varnished surfaces. 
Macbeth’s “pearl top** and 
“pearl glass’* lamp-chimneys 
are carefully made of clear 
tough glass ; they fit, and get 
the utmost light from the 
lamp, and they last until 
some accident breaks them. 
“Pearl top” and “pearl 
glass”are trade-marks. Look 
out for them [and you needn’t 
be an expert. 
Pituburgh. Gao. A. Macbeth Co. 
WIFE 
CANNOT SEE HOW YOU DO 
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Huy from factory, saro dealers* and agents’ profit 
Write to-day for our LARGE FREE CATALOGUE. 
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Our Now ORGAN and I’lANO HOOK. 
<>)Iorod PortraitH, .Snecial Utt’ers, and 
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Will knit a btockinit honl and too in 
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required in the household from 
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on the inarkrt. A child ran operate it. 
strong. Durable, Simple, Rapid. 
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AK(!nt.s wanted. For particulars 
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Gloves, etc, Also Fur Coats of all kinds; Bugs 
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CLAREMONT Land Association, s^i'rTcr'v.’ 
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Coughs, 
Croup, Influenza, and 
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use 
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the best 
of all anodyne 
expectorants. 
Prompt to act, 
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PER WEEK 
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l<»r us. Parties preferred who 
have a horse and can give their 
whole time to our -ibasiness. 
Even spare time will pay splen¬ 
didly. This announcement is of 
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residing in the rural districts. A few vacancies also in 
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on receipt of price; tl.OO per bottle; full informa¬ 
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