JAPANESE POCKET STOVES.
The kwairo is placed in the clothing and the fuel is put up in sausage form, the whole something like a meal cigar case. The pocket brazier is used by railroad travellers and delicate school children. Aged people sleep with the kwairo at their feet. Cramps or colic are soothed by placing the liiile strange instrument across the pit of the stomach.
In the Russo-Japanese War many a benumbed Japanese soldier saved himself by placing the kwairo in his [bosom. Immense quantities have been ordered by Russia during the present war. French missionaries introduced the pocket-stove into France.
The fuel now used was invented in 1882 by Sokichi Yamazaki, of the province of Shimotsuke. The annual output by the trust company which bought the inventor's patent exceeds 160,000 yen.l
The packing and exporting of the fiuel, which is sold at a very popular price, require very careful attention. It is put up in specialiy prepared paper bags.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17126, 30 October 1917, Page 5
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160JAPANESE POCKET STOVES. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17126, 30 October 1917, Page 5
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