The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-28
SOME CURIOUS KITCHENS.

Ine Japanese Kitchen is always supplied
Win running water anu the cooking stoves
SHOWN IN the museum would be laughed at
by an American housewife. They are lit
tie affairs about two feet square and the
average stove cooks but one dish at a time.
Iney are heated with charcoal and in both
Japan ana China great deal of cooking is
done with little round balls made of coal
dust mixed with mud The Chinese and
the Koreans do great deal of their cook
ing on hangs. The kang is an immense
oVenllke ledge built in one side of the
house upon which the family sleeps during
cold night, and in holes in which the
cooling is done by day. l once stopped in
a chinese inn and took a notion to 90 into
tie Kitchen where my meal was being
cooked. L found twenty dirty Tartars
sleeping on one end of the stove and though
the mutton was sizzling away over the
open lire my appetite rapidly disappeared
at the sight The Burmese cooking stove
is box filled with ashes in which a fire
is made and the food is cooked upon the
Goals. No meat is eaten and the Budd
hlsts fear they may be masticating the
bodies of their reincarnated ancestors if
they eat anything that hes had animal life.
The priests carry this TO the extent of
strainlng all the water they drink and the
chief diet is rice.
In both Turkey and Egypt the houses OF
the better class have a sort OF cooking
range made of stones, and consisting of a
number of little holes under which fires
may be built. The floor is always of stone.
and the cooking utensils are of copper. An
ordinary harem usually has two cooks, and
the Sultan has about five hundred cooks.
The last Sultan before this one took his
meals at all sorts of hours and his chef was
chained to the cooking stove Just now the
meals of the Sultan's palace are cooked
about a mile from where they are eaten.
and the average beauty eats her soup cold
There are no more hospitable people in The
world than the Turks. and the Turkish
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 fam
lily has only one room. The kitchen is out
side this room IN the porch, and it consists
of a little box-like pen just high enough to
stand in and hardly big enough to tura
around in. The cooking is done on a char
coal fire. and no meat is eaten unless the
animal is xii ed in the presence of a rabbi
The Jewish women of Jerusalem will not
touch cheese, milk or butter after she mas
eaten meat, though if she has eaten the
hutter first she don't object to putting the
meat in her mouth afterwards A 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.
l believe the Japanese women are the
best housekeepers of tue world They are
certainly the most clearly and Japanese
girl has more cleanliness in her little finger
than the prudish woman of Holland has in
her whole body. The Dutch are always
scrubbing tLeir floors and their pans.
Trey tie up the tails of their COWS at night
in order that they may not get dirty while
resting on the dusty floor where they sleep
and they are sticklers for clean linen and
wood. The japanese girl makes no fuss
about being clean. She takes bath a
couple of times day in boiling water and
her floors shine so that you can see your
face in any part of them. She will not
allow you to come into her house with your
shoes on and she covers the floor with the
whitest and softesl of mats These mats
are made of fine straw. They are an inch
thick and they are pleasanter TO the bare
feet than the finest of carpets. Even the
poorest oil the people have something of
this kind AMI there is no woman in
Japan too poor to be clean 1t
is different in China. The Chi
nese have horror of cold
water and they are the greasiest and dirti-
est Of mortals. Many of them wear their
clothes until the grease and dirt has
changed their hue, and | have seen COR
geous yellow silk gowns with q stripe of
dirty grease, two inches wide, made by the
cue resting against the back. When you
call upon Chinaman and taking dinner with
him, instead of anapkin you will be handed
towel dripped 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
classes 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 the floor
through which she sweeps the dust of her
floating house into the river. She usually
sleeps on the floor, and this is so with most
of the women of the far east.
TIE BEDROOMS OF THE ORIENT.
The bedrooms of the Orient are far diff
ferent from those of Christendom 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 mattresses and spring beds.
Most of these Mongolian beauties don't
know what feather pillow means and
there is IN the museum Japanese pillow
consisting OF lump of wood about the
size of a loaf Of bread with piece of soft
paper tied on the top of it and so made that
ii will 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 1t is her neck rather than her head that
lies upon it. The same kind of pillows are