The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29


not much more extensive than that
worn by Adam and Eve in the garden. A
woman who is washing clothes thinks moth
ing OF pulling her dress down to her waist,
and the man who pulls your jinriksha into
the country frequently takes off his clothes
and runs naked with the exception of bis
loin cloth. One of the incest old foreign
ladies in Japon during the past few years
has been the wife of our consul general at
Yokohama She came from Kentucky and
she could not get reconciled to this naked
ness of the people. Whenever the Jinriksha
mag ATTEMPTED to take off his coat or his
shirt when he was pulling her carriage she
decidedly objected, and when she first
came to Japan | am told that she often
stopped the pretty little Jap girls on the
streets and pinned their dresses close up to
the throat, telling them that it was immod-
est to show so much of their bosoms.
THE CHINESE PANTALooNs
are very full and no one wears drawers.
The Korean has pants so baggy that they
viii reach clear zap to his neck though he
fastens them about his waist and theKorean
woman wraps her skirts around her bosom
just under the arms and there is often six
inches of brown skin showing between
this and the little sacque which covers her
shoulders. A Siamese working woman fire.
quently wears nothing over her shoulders
and breasts and she wraps the cloth about
her waist and pulls it in through the legs,
tucking it in at the back in such a way
that her limbs are bare to the knee. 1t is
the same with the Malay women as far as
the upper part of the dress is concerned
and over in Borneo you will see plump
round girls with little more than a breech
ciout to cover their nakedness. The Bur
N Of
silks, but her dress consists of one
long piece which she wraps
around her waist and lets fall
to her feet. This is tied at the front and
the opening is at this place, but the girls
have from long practice acquired grace
full kicking with the feet by which they
are enabled to keep their gowns tt gether
and avoid any exposure of the person.
They wear sacques and are the bright
est and prettiest women of the East.
a greater part of the Indians, both men
and women, dress in white cotton sheets
and the common people of Egypt wear
| blue cotton gowns. AS to children, those
of the orient wear practically nothing and
/ have seen girls of ten on the streets of
Bangkok as naked as when they were
born. You see potbellied youngsters wad
ding around in the attire of cupid through
out the streets and country roads of Korea
and though Japanese children wear
clothes like their parents when the weather
is at all cold, they often shed them when it
is hot. There are great many mosqui-
toes in Siam and the Siamese have a vel
low powder which they rub over the bodies
of their children TO keep off the insects 1t
turns the battles to rich chrome color and
under the sun makes them shine like gold.
TIE HOUSES OF THE FAR EAST
are better adapted to the weather than
ours. The Japanese house is formed OF
sliding walls OF paper. SO made that he can
| take them out, throw his whole home into
one room or make his house consist of a
roof and a floor. His floors are usually
some distance from the ground and there is
draught Of air under them. They arc
covered with mating and are not cluttered
up with furniture. The japanese house oil
the better class has a heavy roof, but il
has none OF the sanitary conveniences
None Of the SiameSe houses have windows
| and those which are on the water have
breezeS blowing continually through them
| The land houses are built hign up on piles
and the same is true OF tine houses OF
Burmah. The Egyptian houses have very
| thick walls, their roofs are fat and thicl
and their interiors are wonderfully cool
| In most of the Egyptian villages
| and cities the business is done in the ba
Ears, and the streets are covered with mat
| ting, which is stretched from roof to roo
| from the houses on each side, so that the
customers never get in the sun in coins
| from one store to another. The bazars O.
Rangoon and BCrmah are all under enc
roof, and the vast business of Constantine
pie is made up of miles of little booths ar
ranged in streets under one vast roof
| Among the coolest houses of the
| far east are those of Jerusalem
| The people here live in places tina
| look like caves and their houses are il
the shape of caves The roofs are very
thick and each has a little dome built il
the top of it. The roofs are flat and man.
of the people during the hot weather briul
out their beds and sleep on the house tops
| FRANK q. CARPENTER