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

age Indian woman of Hindostan she does
not know what d pillow means You could
buy her whole wardrobe for dollar and
half 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 a foot long
have seen some that were two feet long.
They are as hard as though they were fiat
irons wrapped in cloth and there is
nothing comfortable about them. The
Egyptians use larger pillows and the beau
ties of the harems sleep on large divans,
and these are often covered with Turkish
rugs. The richest woman in China, whose
husband died worth so, 900, has a bed
fully six feet square. 1t is made of teak
wood and it is covered with ropes instead
of a mattress. The old lady lies on a can
vas sheet stretched tightly over this and
she does not know what springs are. The
Japanese 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 daytime and
constitute the bed. The Burmese also
sleep on the floor, but they usually spread
down mats instead of comfortables and
their pillows are of bamboo. The same
discomfort of sleeping arrangements pre-
walls all over the east and there is not
washstand in any Asiatic bedroom
No BAB1 SEWING OR DISH WASHING.
There are many things, however. that the
Asiatic girl IS free from. The Burmese
woman never has to wash dishes. There is
one common dish for the whole family and
at the end of the meal each member takes
his own bowl up to the water bucket and
washes it out and lays it aside for the next
neal. A Siamese woman has no trouble in
making baby clothes. She lets her boys go
naked until they are ten and the little girls
are clothed in string and piece of cop
per about as big as the palm of your hand.
The little babies of the poor of India are
also naked and the average young Korean
who Is young enough to ride free in an Am
erican street car, If we could transport
him to this country, wears nothing but
little shirt that comes half way to his
waist. Asatic wives never have stoves to
black and Asiatic husbands are freed from
putting up the pipes. Asiatic women have
no windows to wash and the Indian wife
has, as rule, no floors to scrub. If she is a
good Hindoo and she wants to add new
beauty and sanctity to her house she gets
a lot OF manure of the sacred cow and
plasters it over the floor, and if she is a
Siamese or Burmese maiden she sweeps
out the dirt through the hole in the floor
There are no sewing girls to bother the
average eastern woman and her back
never gets weak from running the sewing
machine. In many of the countries the
sewing is done by men and the Hindoos
and the Chinese make very good tailors
The Japanese women sew, but they use
very large stitches and the fine en-
broideries of China are all the work of the
stronger sex.
THE wARDRoBEs OF THE FAR EAST.
These eastern women have not the same
trouble in taking care of their clothes that
our housewives have. In the hill country
OF India, until few years ago, there was
tribe known as the Leaf Wearers They
wore no more than Eve did. after she had
had her interview with the snake, and it
was not until the English forced them that
they would put On clothes. The S.amese
woman has one strip of cloth which she
wraps around her bust and over her
shoulders. and another which goes around
her waist IS pulled up between the legs
and tucked into the back. AS rule she is
not troubled with shoes and stockings. and
she has never known the worries Of the
the corset and the skirt. The Burmese
girls are beautifully dressed. They wear
the finest of silks, and they are the pretti-
est girls in the world outside of the Japan
csc and our Anglo-Saxon beauties The
japanese have large wardrobes, aud many
woman in Japan has dozens of dresses
winch would be prizes in America, and the
ciOtn OF Whlcn Is hundreds OF years old.
These dresses are most beautifully en-
broidered and the most costly thing about
the Japanese woman's dress is her hustle.
There are figures in the national mu-
scum representing japanese women. The
dresses are always bound round at the
waist with wide band of silk or satin,
which is tied in the back with great bow
These bands or bows are always OF the
finest material and they sometimes cost as
high as hundred dollars apiece. The Jap
anese woman does her own shopping, and
the same is true of my lady of China, Siam
and Burmah. 1t is not so in Corea, for
there the husband buys all the goods, and
he spends the most of the money on him.
self He is the dude of the east, and his
wife is one Of the typical Asiatic drudges
and slaves. She has a most unbecoming
costume and she has no rights that her
husband is bound to respect. The East
Indian woman is to great extent in sim
liar condition. Her face cannot be seen by
other men than her husband and she is
kept behind the curtain known as the pur-
dab. The Turkish woman lbs more priv
ileges, and though eunuch always accom-
panies her, the lady of the harem goes to
the bazars and shops for herself
MISS GRTTNDY JP