The National tribune., 1889-12-19

Burmah is one Of the greatest rice.growiug
countries Of the world, and there arc vast rice
mills at Rango0n. The laborcrs in these are
black-faccd men and women with regular Cnu-
casian features. They are Killings from south
ern India, aud they get about 30 cents day
and under. The Chinese are better paid. They
act as carpenters aud many Of them engage in
business. They marry Burmese girls. aud In
time their immigration aud intermarriage will
change the Burmese race It IN the same in
Siam. The Chinese are marrying with The
short haired Siamcse maidens. They do "a large
part Of the work Of Bangkok, and they run
much of the business including the gambling
houses. The Sianese men have no certainty
AZ TO whether their time Ia their own. The
King or his officers can call upon them at any
time 10 labor for the crown without pay, aud
the result is that the women do most of the
work OF the family. Women carry great loads
upon the banks of the river. They row and
Bcull barges aud merchandise from one part of
the city 10 the other, and you may sec them
naked TO the waist, working away day after
day under this hot sun of the tropics They
are maRnhcently formed, aud when young
they arc very beautiful. Under the hot sun
their skins grow as black as those of the women
Of the Congo. and some of these Siamese boat.
women Of Bangkok are ebony Venuscs. Women
do the greater part Of the pcddling at Bangkok.
They 20 from floating house TO floating house
In their boats selling their wares, and you sell
dom sec them idle.
The women Of the Himaayas arc also hard
workers. saw, in the shadow Of tho SHOWS of
Mount Everest bronzed-face women, carrying
immense baskets Of dirt upon their backs.
These baskets would hold about three bushels
Of dirt, and they were strapped 10 their slion-
dGrs. The women were working on the road,
and they were carrying this dirt about quar-
ter of mile 10 patch up the holes on tho high.
way. Some ofthe women supported the baskets
on their backs by strap, which was fastened
10 the handle and which came around across
their foreheads. They stood with the baskets
on their backs while being loaded, aud noted
one OF the women who were shovcling tho dirt
who had a siK-m0nths.0ld baby tied to her
back, which bobbed up and down MS she threw
the dirt into the basket. These mountain girls
OF the ii imalayas arc very strong and they
carry burdens which would break down an
American drayman. saw scores Of them car
rying wood from one part Of The mountains To
another, and when landed al the depot one OF
them took my trunk upon her back and carried
IL TO the hotel. paid her five cents for doing
80, aud this WAS about as much as shc could
make ia day in ordinary work. The tea OF
the Himalayas is largely picked by women, and
women do great deal Of work all over India
They work very hard In Egypt, aud one oil
their chief labors in that country ia tho carry
ing of water from the Nile Thore are few
| wells in Egypt. and tho most Of the water ID
carried in this way. The women 90 10 tho side
Of tho river and dip it up in great round
earthenware pots, which they balance Oh their
| heads and walk off with.
In both India aud Egypt IL Is women who
collect the fuel for the family. They do this
by going along the road aud gathering up the
| droppings, which they takc home aud dry for
| freWood. Their wages are very small where
| they work by the day, and neither men nor
women got more than enough To keep an
| American labOrer in cigars. Farm laborers
| Ia India get from six TO eight cents Il day, and
masons receive about 10 cents day In my
| tour around the world / found no place where
| the people were so poor as in India, and no.
where else in the world will you find food Sc
scarce that the people look like living skee
| tons, aud regulate the amount they eat accord,
| ing 10 the amount necessary to sustain life. Ii
| Japan and Burmah and in Korea the people are
| poor, but their poverty is nothing like this
| In Egypt they arc ground to death with taxa
| ton, but their stomachs arc not stinted to such
| degree that they can barely keep alive. There
are no signs of suffering in the faces and limbs
| oil tho people Of Palestine aud Turkey, aud the
| only place where starvation is continually star
| Ing man in the face is in certain districts OF
| India.
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