Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-25
CHINESE ECONOMY.
me Thrifty Celestial Makes Both Ends
Au' Lap over.
North China Herald.

II 80 the ilIlALg N'AN7NA'
10" Lap over.
North China Herald.
-r.. chinese are pre- eminently econom-
rb-ther il be in limiting the number
.r.rts in preventing waste, or IN sd-
OF w., torces - such manner as 20
uas little represent a great deas. Bhe
Lna .4e-sol diet consists of rice, beans, mil
uu -s5ap vegetables and fish, with lit
le" 800 on high festivals. Wholesome
- IN abundance may oe supplied ~
~, than penny 6 day for each ADULT,
- even in famine times thousands OF
a--yo1s have been kept slive for months
= about halfpenry day each ms
- a high degree of culinary skill IN
~. ~ chinese. There modes of preparing
IA a.e thorough and various. There Is
ste. everything is made to do as
~ - antv as possible. What is left is
- 'ysriest tribe. Theiphysical condition
". the Chinese dog or cat, who has to live
~ The Ieayings of the family, show this;
-, are Clearly kept on starvation ALLOW
sncss The Chinese are not extremity fas
als;,ns in regard to food All is fish that
- n their net, and most things come
- sooper or later. Certain disturb
- of the human organization, due to
-, diseased meat, are we'll recognized
or,org the people, but it Is considered
80 10 eat the meat, the chespness of
1Licb ia certain, and run the risk OF the
ns,oueuces, which are not quite certain,
Ran 20 buy dear meat. eveL with the as
nance of no evil results. Indeed, the
,rsst of animals which have died of
1-,irarv ailments is rather dearer than
no. - those which have died in gu cpl
5.r,ic inch as pleuru pneumonia. Auothor
e,emnle of careful, calculating economy
~ .hs construction of the cooking pots
and boilers, the bottoms of which are as
mn a. po!sible, that the contents may
boil all the sooner, for fuel is scarce and
dear and consists generally of nothing
h,, the stalks and roots of the crOps,
pbi,h make rapid blaze and disappear.
The business OF gathering tuel is COM
melted TO children, for one who can do
notblps else can at least pick up straws
ana leaves and weeds. In autumn AID
winter vast army of fuel gatherers
sn,.ad over the land. Boys ascend trees
and heat them With clubs TO shake off the
.eayes the very straws get no time to
show which way the wind blows before
thevt:, annexed by some enterprising
collector. imilarly professional manure
collectors swarm over all the roads of
the country. Chinese women carry this
minute economy into their dress; nothing
comes amiss to them; If it is not used in
one place it is in another, where it ap-
pears thing of beauty. Foreign resi-
dents who give their cast off clothes away
TO the Chinese may be assured that the
career of usefulness of these garments is
AZ last about to commence. Chinese
yheebarrOws squeak for the want of a
few Drops of oil, but to people who have
no nerves the squeak is cheaper than the
oil. Similarly art is cheaper than hot
water and so, as Il rule, the people do not
wash the motto, Cheaper than dirt"
which the soap dealer puts in his win dows,
could not be made Ineligible TO the Chi
uese To them the average foreigners
are mere soap MASTERS. Scarcely any tool
can be got ready made; II Is so much
cheaper TO buy the parts and put them
together for Yourself, and as almost
everybody takes this view ready made
tools are not to be got. Two rooms are
dimly lighted with single lamp deftly
placed in a hole in the dividing wall. Chi
nese, in fact, seem to be capable of doing
almost any thing by means of almost moth
ing. They will giSe you an iron foundry
on a minute scale of completeness IN q
back yard, and will make In an hour a
cooking range of strong and perfect
draughr, ont Of a pile of mud bricks, LAST
ing indefinitely, operating perfectly, and
costing nothing. The old woman who in
her last moments hobbled as near as pos
sibe to the family graveyard in order to
die, 20 as to avoid the expense of coffin
4 bearers was Chinese.