Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-18

The Division of Labor-The Anamese Not
Shining Examples of the Domestic Vir.
tues.
Labor is divided with sufficient min.
uteness to satisfy the most rigid politi-
cal economist. Those who deal il
special articles are confined to certain
streets, and even the business of fur
nishing a particular part of some
manufactured. article is confined to
some one locality. The tailors, the
hatters. the embroiderers, the timers,
the parasol-makers, the shoemakers,
the potters, those who do the pearl in
laid work. and those who deal in por-
celain, common pottery, silk goods.
cotton goods. and other special
branches of trade, all have their special
streets or quarters, and the display
they make of their goods. if never
large, is often picturesque. The silk
strings used by women for their hats
and the metal point which surmounts
the hats of men are made by particu-
lar class of artisans. Embroidery is
not done so well as in Canton. but is
often rich and handsome, while the
pearl inlaid work is highly characters
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after by collectors of curiOsities.
The Anamese are not shining exam
Piles of the domestic virtues. Neither
have they in their intercourse with one
another that bland and self-denying
polteness which characterzes the So
cial relations of the Japanese in such
an eminent degree. Both men and
women will discount London fish-wife
in the matter of objurgation. 1 have
seen two women leading out of re-
spective doorways ON opposite sides of
the narrow streets of Hanoi, making
the welkin ring with vile reproacheS
and insults. while the listening neigh
borhood smiled and applauded. The
fire on domestic hearthstones can not
be expected to burn brightly under
dripping roofs of thatch and drafty
walls of palm or bamboo mating. 1t
is hard to tell whether the husband or
the wife rules the roast, though doubt
less, as in civilized countries. it is some
times the one and sometimes the other.
| have seen a husband chastize his
erring wife with his fists in the streets
of Haiphong. while in Hanoi, where
the native population is expected to re-
tire early, have seen a husband who
stayed out till $50 o'clock squatted
at the door of his home, humbly
begging to be admitted. with every
prospect of having to spend the night
in that humiliating attitude. At Son
tay have also seen an aged crone pur-
sue her indolent and servile lord into
crowded thoroughfare and lead him
back and compel him to resume some
household drudgery which he had
shamefully endeayored to evade. Be-
tween husband and wife, therefore, so
far as the subsection of either to the
will of the other is concerned, the hon
ors may be considered easy. Marriage
is a sort of social compact
on the part of the
young woman by her mother. 1t is
more than anything else among the
common class OF matter of bar
gain and sale. There are no
in which young
girls can be. proftably employed,
besides taxing care of the superfluous
of the family, except some
times to assist at the hereditary labor
Or trade, or to learn the minstrel bust
ness. thrum the guitar and sing in the
fashion of the country. fashion, as in
Japan, adopted from the Chinese many
years ago.-Cor. San Francisco Ctrom-