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Show LIVING A LA JAPONAISE. tlmple and Delightful and Very Cheap Ia the Housekeeping: In Japan. I do not know of anything simpler and more delightful than housekeeping In Japan if you live a la Japonaise. I myself determined to try it, and having hav-ing found a suitable spot to settle in, on the highest hill in Tokyo, I proceed ed to engage a native servant, who was also to be my adviser as to how to furnish fur-nish my establishment in strictly Japanese Japa-nese fashion. The furnishing was com pleted in lees than ten minutes, and here are 6ome of tho principal items of which it consisted: Two foutangs, ot thin mattresses, between which one lief at night, and a makura, a wooden pil low, or rather an instrument of tortur for the first few nights, furnished my bedroom; a hibachi, or brass brazier, with chopstick3 to stir the fire with, and a water kettle made tho hall cozy, and a little lacquer table, a foot square and about 6 inches high, with a couple of tiny little plates and a bowl, made the dining room qnite complete and repleta with every comfort. Two silk cushioni were placed in the sitting room for das' tinguished guests to sit on. 'Ah," said t to my servant, "but do you not think that I shall need something some-thing more?" as to my European mind what I had purchased seemed somewhal Insufficient to furnish a 12 roomed house. "No, sir," raid ho in his broken Eng lish, "real Japan gentleman has no furniture." fur-niture." Upon which I began to feel rather sorry to have emulated the "Japan "Ja-pan gentleman. " Still I thought I would go on for the fun of the thing, and, though I must confess as I went round my new abode my rooms did not look overfurnished, I decided to make the best of what I had got. It is astonishing astonish-ing with how little one can do if one tries and how much better penury ii than profusion. When a couple of days had elapsed. I tiJmost began to feel thai I had furnished my house too richly 1 1 could certainly have done with a deal lees. Fortnighy Review, |