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Show I " DfllRYlNG I THE COW'S MISSION. H It appears tlrat it is, after all, the fl cow that is to work out the salvation M and the complete civilization of Ja- H pan. She has begun her good work m there and is hustling it along at a M rate that promises speedy betterment M for the Mikado's people. According M to a writer in Harper's Weekly, there m was actinic when milk was regarded in M Japan wiih the same abhorrence as m cheese in Ghina. Recent statistics, M however, show that time has worked H a great change in this respect, and m milk, and butter arc now in great M favor in Japan. Whereas, twenty-five M years ago not more than one or two H per cent of the persons visiting a H European restaurant or eating a Euro- H pcan niftai at a friend's house would H, have thought of touching butter, ful- H ly forty or fifty per cent now cat it H with a relish. They arc, however. H quite content to do without it. H Dairy forms have increased notably H in recent years. Butter, however, is H a by-prorhfet at these places. It is lo H milk that they look for their profit: H. Milk hur, a curious history in Japan. w Thirty or forty years ago it was ab- H horrcd. The average Japanese could Hj) not induce himself to drink it. But Hf today many a household consumes one or two bottles of milk daily, H partly because the doctors have rc Hj ommcndod it as a unique and wholc- some beverage. "Milk halls," too, m arc now quite numerous. Better will probably take much longer to come H widely into vogue, because of its cx- pcnsivcness A pound of fresh butter costs at least one yen (49.8 cents, Hj gpld) in Tokio today, an extremely Hi h'igh price for Japan. 1 |