The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-28

s"Ss suitsu before THIS one tOok Ms
meals ct oil sorts OF hours. and his chef
VS. chained to the cooking stove. Just
nov the meals Of the Sultan's palace are
cooked about . mile from where they are
eaten, and the average beauty eats her soup
COLO. There ere no more hospiteble people
IN the world than the Turks. and the Turk
Ism housewife always sets an extra plate.
come of the funniest Kitchens ever
saw were those Of the Jews Of Jerusa-
lem. These people are very poor and the
average family has only one room. The
Kitchen is outside this room IN the porch,
and II consists of little box-like pen just
high enough to stand in and hardly big
enough to turn around in. The cooking il
done on charcoal fire, and no meat -
eaten unless the animal was killed in the
presence OF rabbi. The Jewish woman
OF jerusalem will not touch cheese. milk
or butter after she has eaten meat, though
II she has eaten the butter first she don't
object to putting the meat in her month
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.
TIE HoUsEKEEPERs OF Asia
/ believe the Japanese women are the
best housekeepers Of the world. They are
certainly the most cleanly, 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 their floors and their pans. They
tie up the tails of their cows at night In
order that they may not get dirty while
resting on the dirty floor where they sleep,
and they are sticklers for clean linen and
wood. The japanese girl makes no fuss
about being clean. She takes Q bath
couple of times day in boiling hot 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
floors with the whitest and soft
est 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 of the people have some
thing OF this kind, and there is no woman
in Japan too poor to be clean. 1t is differ
emit In China. The Chinese have horror
Of cold water and they are the greasiest
and dirtiest of mortals. Many OF them
wear their clothes until the grease and dirt
has changed their hue, and have seen gor-
geous yellow silk gowns with stripe Of
dirty grease two inches wide made by the
cue resting against the back. When you
call upona Chinaman and take dinner with
him, instead OF dry napkin you will
be handed q towel dipped in warm
water to run over your face, and after you
ara 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 the
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 is so with most of the women of
the far East.
THE BEDROOMS OF THE ORIENT.
The bedrooms of the Orient are far diff
half the women of the world sleep upon
the floor or the ground, and even the rich
est Of the ladies of Asia have never known
the luxury of hair mattresses and spring
beds. Most of these Monaghan beauties
| 3,
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 on the top OF it, and so made
that it will just fit into Yum Yum's neck
and prop her head off the floor. The Jap
anese 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 dollar
and q half and she sleeps on the floor
while her husband cuddies himself up in
spoon fashion on the bed. The Korean
pillow is about eight inches square and a
foot long. l have seen some that were two
feet long. They are as hard as though
they were Hatirons wrapped in cloth, and
there is nothing comfortable about them.
The Egyptians use larger pillows, and the
beauties of the harems sleep on large d.
vans, and these are often covered with
Turkish rugs. The richest woman in
China, whose husband died worth fifty
millions, has bed fully SIX feet square.
It is made of teak wood
and it is covered with ropes in
stead of mattress. The old lady lies on a
canvas sheet stretched tightly over this
and she does not know what springs are.
The Japanese sleep on the floor. They
have thick comfortabies which they spread
on the floor at night. and which they pack
away in cupboards in the daytime, and
these 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
prevails all over the East, and there is not
q washstand in any Asiatic bedroom.
NO BABY 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 meal. A Siamese woman has nc
trouble in making baby clothes. She lets
her BOYS 60 naked until they are 10, and
the little girls are clothed in string and a
piece of copper about as big the palm of
YOUR hand. The little babies of the poor OF
India are also naked. and the average
Korean who is young enough 10 ride free
in an American street car, il We could trans
port him to this country. wears nothing but
A little shift that comes half way down to
his waist Asiatic wives never have stoves
to black, and Asiatic husbands are freed
from putting up the pipes. Asiatic women
have no windows 10 wash and the Indian
wife has, as a rule, no floors to scrub Ii
md he re 10 4 4