Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-08

None of The shops of Seoul arc, how
ever, large. and the trade of this capital
OF 800, 0O0 people is made up of what
the Yankees would call Il whiting bust
ness. The loudcst-mou tined and most
cnterprising persons in. the whole city
seem To he the vendors of roasted
chcstnuts. They aro little boys with
their hair parted i'll the middle like girls
and braided in one tightly woven cord
down the back. Their stock usually
consists of about a quart of chcstnuts,
and they have a little pan of Goals over
which they roast them while you wait
Another thriving trade seems to be tho
cook shops, where all sorts of Corean
dainties, from raw fish to toasted liver,
are served up on little round tables Il
foot high and about fifteen inches in
diameter. These have four or five little
legs, and if you order dinner the boy
servant of the cook shop will lift up the
table containing the dishes. balance it
on his head and walk oil with it, with
the legs of the table hanging down
about his neck. Such dishes rs saw
were not ut all aprctizing, and every
thing was seasoned highly with red
peppers.
The roofs of the country huts arc now
covered with red peppers, and ! see
them sold by the bushcl i'll the markets
near the wide street Of the bell. The
Corcans may use them rs appctizcrs.
They have, it seems. an cvcr-prcscnt
craving for food, and make their stom-
achs their god TO cat, to smoke, to
sleep and to squat is. to all outward ap.
pearanccs, the chief cnploymcnts of the
people, and TO be fat in Corca is sign
of wealth. a big stomach is an honor
and the very small children in the coun-
try districts are III nine cases out of ten
pot bcllicd. The skin of their abdo-
mems is stretched like drum head and
leading authority on Corcau life says
that mothers, in order to increase the
size Of the stomachs of their children,
stun them day after day with rice, pad
ding tkem on the stomach to press down
the contents and make room for more
Corcan ladies have place in the back
of the house to themselves. Fashion in
dress docs not change with them and
their lives are those of almost perfect
dcsolation. Those you see on the street
are the common women or servants, and
these have green gowns over their
heads and their dresses, which, am
told, are cut after the same style us those
Of the ladies, and consist of short
skirt with n waistband about IL foot
wide. Over this comes short Jacket
with sleeves. The only icwclry see is
i'll the In rpins, which are in some cases
twelve inches long and rs big around rs
your little finger. They, are made OF
silver and jade and sometimes have knobs
on them AS big rs the hand of n two. year
old baby. The servants Of the palace
wear peek oil false hair on their heads
coilcd in thick rolls. The Corean ladies
are very glad to see foreign ladies, but
few of them are able to return the calls
ono OF them tod an American friend OF
mine that she found it very hard TO lead
such secluded life and she longcd for
the customs of our country. All Corean
ladies smoke. They have their polite
ways of bowling and their code of
etiquette, and not few of them rule
their husbands. The laws OF divorce
arc almost altogether on the husbands