The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-25

sometimes neatly carved. is often the most ex-
pensise part of the houses The smaller room
is connected with the larger by door and is
ased as store room for rice &c. That their
houses may be secure against thievesi- they
have no windows 10 either room. In front
and often at both ends is verandah six or
seven feet wide, and projecting roof on the
back side to protect the wal from rain. The
roof of the verandah extends down so low that
an adult cannot enter without STOPPING They
are often hung aroung with the braided leaves
of the cocoa-nut tree to break the wind and
rain in storm. or shut ont the heat in the
middle of the day. the floor of the verandah
is raised foot or q cubit, and beaten down
fand made smooth. It is used often for their
reception room, and the place saere they
|sleep in hot weather. In the coolest weather
and When afraid ofsrobbers, they sleep vithin
their houses In times when cholera prevails
Trey are seldom enloutside after dark, lest
the demon whom they think causes the disease
should seize them.
Another form IN which the people build is
an enclosure. thirty or forty feet square, with
rooms for dwellings on the inside One side
of the roof rests on this outer wall, and ex.
tends round the whole enclosure, leaving an
open court in the middle. The cooking IS
generally done on one side of the enclosure
within. Sometimes they have q cook.house
outside in font of the door of entrance, as is
always the case where the houses are built af
ter the other form. The wealthy portion of
the people generally build in this style, and it
is not at all uncomI mon TO find the representa-
tives Of three or four generations in one of
these dwellings, and several large families
The aoors are almost always made of mud
beaten down smooth, and washed, from time
to time. with a preparation that destroys the
little insects which abound. In the nicely fin
ished houses the verandah floors are made of
lime mortar, hard finished, which they do very
nicely. ,s 3,sz5 ...--s,as s-t 81
The Customs Of the People. as1rs
Their valuables Ieweiry and clothing) are
generally kept ina strong box within the iE-
ner room. They sleep on mats, generally on
the floor, covering themselves with the cloth
worn during the.day. The poor people use a
piece OF wood for pillow. and are glad to get
a piece of pine! Some have bedsteads, which
they use in the rainy season, when the floors
Of their houses are often damp. They have
no chairs, except IN a few cases that they may
have one to offer to q foreigner who may call
to see them A mat on the floor is their
chair, and answers also for their table, on
which they spread leaf for plate. or place
before them their brass plate for their food
Their fingers answer for knife and fork or spoon
to convey food to their mouth, or a leaf fold.
ed together on one side. win answer for a
spoon in eating broth. or cool, as they call it.
They do not come together as a family to
take their food after the custom of Christian
countries, but the wife prepares the food, and
brings it to her lord, and waits until he has fin
ished, and then eats by herself with the small
children in the kitchen. The sons. when they
have grown up to manhood, eat with theiI
father.
| The furniture of their kitchens is very sim
pie A large mortar, cubit Ligh, with {
pestile four or five feet long for pounding ric'
to remove the hulls, and sometimes into fou
! La small fan for separating the hul,s-a po
> for boiling rice made of coarse eartben ware
I of globular shape with the opening at tn
J, top about half the diameter through the cen
tire, which is, placed on three stones or thre
] humps of dried earth. that FIRE may be mad
3 under it--a pot of the same material, or some
times of brass with narrow neck for bringin
|, water-a broad,mouthed shallow vessel (chai
rlti) for making curry-stone and roller to grin
Z the curry seed--a small dipper made Of pal
of cocoa-nut shell-an instrument for scrapin
e the cocoa nut, and knife set set in block
cut up fish and vegetables. are the priucip
IT articles they consider necessary for their Gu
/ sine. Though their implements are very sir
3 pie, they will furnish nice dish of rice ar
'r curry on short notice. Will you call and tai
= meal y j. O. s.
Location Of the Sense Of Taste.
The Clinigue Eurepenne, contains the f
q lowing account of certain experiments made
r.l NM. Klaatsch and Stitch, to ascertain the re
ie seat of the sense of taste. which is general
and erroneonsly supposed to exist on the who
-stsurface of the. tongue. 1t appears, on 4
ID contrary, from these experiments, that the @
alf ly portion Of that organ which is sensible
p taste is a narrow space all round. The bread
oytof this sensible zone varies in different So
n jects; I'M some IL is not more than two lines,
". others double that breadth; it rarely exten
ed to the inferior surface. The experimeI
ne above alluded to were as follows: A 81
ne stance having strong taste is FIRST placed
'nt the centre Of the tepgnessvhe itprodu
slo no effect; il is'theh gradually spread out
DO til the perception Of taste is ann onnced; t
occurs generally on the border, but in some
-. dividuals itbegins at the distance Of a
ter from it. The veIstns penduluns of the pal
ey is also sensible go taste. but the pharynx
IN tonsils sre deprived of the gustative facul
as This is proved by the fact that if they
70 touched with stick caustic the patient exp
! Mo "a ences no taste, provided he keep his ton
oo- and the uelmm peduluH away from the 81
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