Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-02

In both Turkey and Egypt the houses
of the better class have q sort OF cooking
range made of stones and consisting OF
q number of little holes under which
| fires may be built. The floor is always
of store, and the cooking utensils are Of
copper. An ordinary harem usually has
two COOKS and the sultan has about 800
| cooks. The last sultan before tins one
took his meals at all sorts of hours and
his chef was chained TO the cooking
stove. Just now the meals of the sui
tal's palace are cooked about mile
from where they are eaten and the
average beauty eats her soup cold.
There are no more bospitable people III
the world than the Turks, and the Turk
ish housewife always sets an extra plate.
Some of the funniest kitchens | ever saw
were those of the Jews of Jerusalem.
These people are very poor and the
average family has only one room. The
kitchen is outside this room in the porch
and il consists of little bOX-like pen
lust high enough TO stand in and hardly
big enough to turn around IN. me
cooking is done on a charcoal fire and no
meat is eaten unless the animal was
killed in the presen Of rabbi. The
Jewish woman of Jerusalem will not
| touch cheese, milk or batter after she
| has eaten meat, though If sine has eaten
| the butter first she don't object TO put
ting the meat i'll her mouth afterwards.
| \ great many of their dishes are cooked
in oil and the pastry made by jewish
wife in the land of Palestine would ruin
the stomach of an American tramp.
THE HOUsEKEEPERs OF ASIA.
believe the Japanese women are the
best housek eepers of the world. Ihey
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japanese girl has more cleanliness in her
little finger than the prudish woman OF
Holland has in her whole body. The
Dutch are always scrubbiug their floors
and their pans. They tie up the tails of
their cows at night in order that they
nav not get dirty while resting on the
dusty floor where they sleep, and they
are stickIers for clean linen and wood.
The japanese girl makes no fuss about
being clean She takes bath couple
of times d day III boiling hot water ana
her floors shine so that you can see your
face in any part of them. She Will net
allow You to come into her house. with
your shoes on ana she covers the floors
with the whitest and softest of IN Is.
These mats are made of tine straw.
They are an inch thick and they are
pleasanter to the bare feet than the
| finest of carpets. Even the poorest OF
| the people have something of this kind,
| and there is no woman in Japan too poor
| 10 be clean 1t is different i'll China.
| The Chinese have Il horror of cold water
| and they are the gresist and dlrtlest OF
| mOrtals. Many of them wear their
| clothes until the grease and dirt mas
| changed their hue. and have seen Eor-
| geous yellow silk gowns with stlpe of
la hI-f a
! cue resting against the back. When
| you call upon ChinamGn and take din
ner with MIN instead of a dry napkin you
| will be handed towel dipped in warm
| water TO run over your face, and after
you are through it will be dropped back
! in the water and handed TO the next
! guest Among the lower ella -ses of the
| Cinnamon there is little cleanliness OF
| houses. The grease and dirt is allowed
| to fall on the floor from the table, and
| the dogs and cats are the broom The
| Siamese woman has hole in her floor
| through which she sweeps the dust OF her
| floating house into the river. She usually
sleeps on the floor, and this ia so with
| most of the women of the far East.
THE BEDROOMS OF THE ORIENT.
| The bedrooms of the orient are far
| different from those of Christeudom.
| Fully half the women of the world sleep
! upon the floor or the ground, and even
the richest of the ladies of Asia have
| never known the luxury of hair mat
| tresses and spring beds. Most of these
Monaghan beauties don t know what a
feather pillow means, and there is in the
museum a japanese pillow consisting of
| lump of wood about the size of loaf
| of bread, with piece of soft paper tied
| hn Of co "a U
Just fit into Yum Yum's neck and prop
her head off the floor. The japanese
girl never needs to shake up her pillow,
and it is her neck rather than
her head that lies upon it. The
| same kind OF pillows are
used in China and Siam, and as to the
average Indian woman of Hindostan she
does not know what pillow means.
| You could buy her whole wardrobe for
| 81 so, and she sleeps on the floor, while
her husband cuddles himself up in spoon
fashion on the bed. The Korean pillow
is about eight inches square and foot
long. / have seen some that were two
| feet long. They are as hard as though
| they were flatirons wrapped in cloth,
and there is nothing comfortable about
| them. The Egyptians use larger pillows,
| and the beauties of the harems sleep on
| large dIyanS, ana these are O1ten COW
cred with Turkish rugs. The richest
woman in China, whose husband died
worth 90 900 900, has bed fully six feet
square. 1t is made of teak wood and is
covered with ropes instead of mattress.
The old lady lies on d canvas sheet
stretched tightly over this, and she does
not know what springs are. The Jap
anese sleep on the floor. They have
thick comfortables which they spread on
the floor at night, and which they pack
away in cupboards in the day- time, and
these constitute the bed. The Burmese
also sleep on the floor, but they usually
spread down mats instead of comfort
sbles, and their pillows are of bamboo.
The same discomfort of sleeping arrange
ments prevails all over the East, and
there is not a weshstand IN any Asiatio
! bedroom.
No BABY SEWING OR DISH WASHING.
There are many things however that
the Asiatic girl is free from. The Bur-
mese woman never has to wash dishes.
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