The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
S. KELLNER, 205 and 2O7 Main St.,

after room of marble, and there were hot
pipes and cold fountains and it is said that
one of this mans successors, when he sus-
pected one of his wives TO be unfaithful, was
won't to lock her up in this bath, turn on the
hot water and forget all about her. The
result was she awoke III heaven. The
Turks of Egypt and of Turkey spend
great part of their time in the bath, and the
Turkish bath is too well known in the
United States TO need description.
THE RAJAHs OF INDIA
have got the art of keeping cool down to a
science. One of the finest cities of the
far east is that OF Jeypore. 1t is the cap
itaI of native state. All of its buildings
are rose colored aud they were all buIl6
after one style of architecture. The
palace of the Rajah is in vast gardens
through which rivers of water flow in
marble beds and in which the luxuriant
flowers and trees of tropics bloom. The
harem of the Rajah of Jeypore LOOKS out
upon this garden and its fair ladies aIe
kept cool oy tanning mills turned by
hand. 1t takes a score of men to turn the
crank to keep these maidens cool and
i man. 0 yer has much to do with the e
/ 1r .geators of the east. There are thou
SANDS of foreigners, Americans, English
and French, now at work in Asia aud
! each of these does his bookkt eping under
] GlG Ur6CLC Vi Tue II ukdH. Inc uQhan
is long fan like strip of cloth fastened
TO beam which is hing by ropes from the
ceiling over the mans head. To the mid
| die of tits beam rope is fastened and
this rope is put through pulley and so
arranged that a man sitting out of doors
and pulling at it will make the fan 90 back
ward n forth over the boOkkeeper's lad.
The naulve pulls away all day long a I'd
/ most forelpnerS have such a rigg n put
up o yer thei b eds and keep the breezes
this way all night. Yod can get a CT ila-
man to do this for abou5 fifty cent a day
and you servant in lnuia will WORK even
cheaper. Now and then you Punkah nj n
goes to sleep and you notice the ST p Jage
OF the air ALI you have to do il this
case Is TO lift up b4cket of water and
1 tnrowlt out OF the window. a good drench-
ins wakes up the Punkahwalla and he
goes to work again. l have seen thirty OF
/ the s. lSunkahS at work in chuch while
the lGi iscopalian minister was reading the
SerV C. aud the breeze added to the sermon
was d ;c,dediy soporitic.
TINS church was at Singapore, just
EIGHTY MILES FROM THE EQUATOR,
the year around. Here ] saw a lawn
tennis match. II e participants were
fore gners, The ladies' dressed III linen
1 costume and the men in while flannel
suits Each player had servant TO run
after the ball for him when II happened to
go satsi lie the bounds and they did not
! take a bit more c iercisc than was nee
essary. Tue modes Of lercise in the far
east are OF interest TO people who want
to keep cool and still maintain healthy
I condition III hot weather. Foreigners in
Asia get up at day break, take a good ride
across the country or a walk before the
sun gets up. They take a sleep in the
middle OF the day and work on into the
evening. They drink great deal of
whisky, but whether this has cooling in
fiuence or not | do not know. A great
part Of the hard work of the east is done at
night, and this is especially so in the great
government departments The King of
Korea holds all his audiences at night, and
the Emperor of China takes ali his sleep in
the daytime. This is so with the King of
Siam, and the Sultan of Turkey never goes
to sleep until l o'clock in the morning.
THE QUESTION OF WATER
in the far east is an important one and the
water carriers form one of the largest
castles of India. Both here and in Egypt
they carry their water in skins upon their
backs and they sell it by the cup and by
the skinful, These skIn-bags are made Of
hog skins or goat skins and the ordinary
skin will hold ten gallons. Water is worth
-
cutta are watered by these men, who
sprinkle the water from the skin upon the
dust. The street waterworks of Korea
consist OF set ofmen who go around with
buckets of water on their backs and in
Japan the streets are kept cool by man
VINO carries two buckets of water fastened
to pole over his shoulders and lets the
water out through little holes in their bot
toms. Both in Korea and in Japan the
water used for this purpose is taken rom
the cutters, which form to a large extent
the sewers of the city and the cooling of
the air is by no means publication of it.
THE QUESTION OF KEEPING COOL
is largely matter of dress. Mr.. Rockhill,
the American who pushed his way into
Thibet last year, wore q Chinese costume
during the journey, and he tells me it is far
cooler than the American. All the nations
of the east dress much better in this re-
spect than we do. The Japanese during
the summer has practically nothing but a
cotton gown to cover his person, and his
legs are bare. If he is working man of
one of the poorer classes he takes off every
stitch of clothing with the exception of a
cloth around the loins and trusts to the
tattooed marks of his back and legs to
cover his nakedness. This mode of dress
ing is now prohibited in the cities, but it is
not at all uncommon in the country and in
going through Japan you see both
women and men clad in dress