Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-28

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a 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 500
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 sui
tai's palace are cooked about mile
from where they are eaten and the
average beauty eats her soup cold.
There are no more hospitabls people in
the world than the Turks, and the Turk
ish housewife always sets an extra plate
Some of the funniest kitchens l 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 1t consists OF little box-like pen
just high enough TO stand in and hardly
big enough TO turn around in. The
cooking is done on charcoal fire and no
meat is eaten unless the animal was
killed in the presen of a 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 { object to put
ting 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.
| | believe the Japanese women are the
best housekeepers of the world. They
are certainly the most cleanly aud
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 s;ickiers for clean linen and wood.
The japanese girl makes no fuss about
| being clean. She takes bath q couple
| of times day III 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 ana she covers the floors
with the whitest and softest of m Is.
These mats are made of fine straw.
They are an inch thick and they are
plrasanter 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
to be clean. It is different i'll China.
The Chinese have horror of cold water
and they are the gresist and dirtiest of
mortals. Many of them wear their
clothes until the grease and dirt has
changed their hue. aud have seen gor-
geous yellow silk gowns with a stlpe of
dirty grease two inches wide made by the
cue resting against the back. When
you call upon Chinaman and take din
ner with him instead of dry napkin you
will be handed q 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 classes of the |
Cinnamon there is little cleanliness of |
houses. The grease and dirt is allowed |
to fail 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 is 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
tresses and spring beds. Most of these
Monaghan 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 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 of 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 q 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 a foot
long. l have seen some that were two
feet long. They are as hard as though
they were flatirons wrapped in cloth,
aud there is nothing comfortable about
them. The Egyptians use larger pillows,
aud the beauties of the harems sleep on
large diyans, and these are often COW
cred with Turkish rugs. The richest |
woman in China, swhose husband died
worth so ,000, 900, has bed fully six feet
square. IL is made Of teak wood and 10
covered with ropes instead of mattress.
The old lady lies on q canvas sheet
stretched tightly over this, aud she does ,
not know what springs are. The jap I
inese sleep on the floor. They have ,
hick comfortables which they spread on ,
he floor at night, and which they pack I
lway in cupboards in the day time, and I
hese constitute the bed. The Burmese &
!lso sleep on the floor, but they usually 7
pread down mats instead of comfort 4
Ibles, and their pillows are of bamboo. !
'he same discomfort of sleeping arrange 8
nents prevails all over the East, and 8
here is not a washstand IN any Asistio a
r
NO BABY SEWING OR DISH WASHING. II
There are many things however that (
he Asiatio girl is free from. The Bur- o
1ese woman never has to wash dishes. 7
here is one common dish for the whole C
amily, and at the end of the meal each 6
lember takes his own bowl up to ths i
later bucket and washes it out and lays 2
aside for the next meal. Siamese \
oman has no trouble in making baby p
lothes. She lets her boys go naked IN Il
i they are ten and the little girls are IL
lothed In a string and a piece of copper d
bout as big as the palm of your hand. p