Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-09
PEOPLE OF ALL LANDS.

TURKISH women eat rose-leaves with but
ter to secure plumpness.
The elite of Japan wear the native dress
indoors and the American styles on the
street.
THE domestic economy Of the French con-
ststs in doing without things. They make
nothing go further than other people, unless
it is talk.
WHEN Turk dies, the legs are tied to-
gether and the arms stretched by the sides.
The burial takes place as soon as possible
after death. The corpse is handled very
tenderly, as the Turks believe any lack of
tenderness would bring the curse of the
dead mans soul upon them.
THE Japanese keep meat fresh in hot
weather by placing the raw flesh in porce-
lain vessels and pouring on it boiling water,
whereby the albumen of the surface is
quickly coag ulated and forms O protection
against the further action of the weather.
Oil IS then poured on the surface of the
water, so as to prevent the access of air
and consequent putrefaction of the meat.
The Chinese never kiss, but a Chinese
andarin who has travelled in western ma
tons has attempted to instruct the be-
nighted Celestials. He says: "Kissing is a
form of courtesy which consists in present
ing the lips to the lower part of the chin and
making sound" Again: "Children when
visiting their seniors apply their mouth to
smacking noise.''
THE middle-class Partisan woman lives in
a fat, waited on by one or two servants.
She seldom dresses before dinner at twelve
o'clock, living in a loose gown until then,
and devotes the morning hours to going
over her afternoon toilet, seeing that every
button, hook and frill IS in les right place.
Very little dress-making is done at home; ;
ladies' maids are q luxury unknown in q
middle-class French household.
THE Mexicans have queer way of bury
ing the dead. The corpse is tightly wrapped
in century plant mating and placed in a
coffin rented for about twenty-five cents.
One or two natives, as the case may be,
place the coffin on their heads and go in a
trot to the grave, where the body IS inferred,
and the coffin is then returned. The wealthy
use the street cars as hearSes, and the
friends follow beside the car on foot.
WITH all their affection and frankness,
the Maori children seem to have no idea of
obedience. The babies are carried slung
on the backs of the mothers in shawls,
like the papooses of our Indians. The
women have their ears pierced for wearing
ornaments, of which the sharks tooth is
favorite; but some, with an inventiveness
not 1OunQ among Cnelr civilized SlSterS, nave
been known to utilize the hole in the ear by
sticking into it a tobacco pipe, SO as to have
it ready for use.
THE Cuban is more afraid of the moon
light than the sun. He will live in a fetid
atmosphere that would stifie savage, but
surrender years income rather than ex-
pose himself to the rays of the moon. Every
deformity, every distemper, every fever or
bilious attack he attributes to the effect of
the moonlight, which he believes is the di-
rect cause of most of the ills man is heir to.
The drainage of the city is a trivial matter
compared with exposure to the moon.
A CORRESPONDENT from Corea says: "Ev-
cry body is in white robes, and even though
a man has got only one suit in the world, it
is clean. When he goes home at night, if
he belongs to the poor class, he retires to
bed and his wife washes and pommels his
clothes. 1 say ''pommels," for ironing is
an unknown art in Corea. After being
washed the calico is stretched on
wooden block, and then with a fiat block of
wood in each hand the woman pounds it
for hours. After sunset all Seoul rings
with the dactylic tap-tap-tap, tap-tap-tap of
these domestic voices of the night, as with
the incessant cry of million strident in
sectS.