The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
In THE FAR EAST
How the Asiatic Nations Keep
Themselves Cool.
LOOSE CLOTHES FOR SUMMER
The Koreans and Their Wicker-W Work Bustles
Hot Springs of ,Iapan-Homes of
Half the World.

WASHINGTON, June -, loyU-- opecldt
correspondence of THE HERALD. Wash
ington is sweltering under a midsummer
sun, The statesmen at the capitol are in
their summer clothes, and every man has
his recipe for keeping cool. l know of a
Senator who takes twelve baths a week at
the government expense, and there are fif-
teen members of the lower House who
wear seersucker coats and flannel shirts
/ visited the National museum to-day to see
1.-THE appliances which the people of the trop-
les have
TO KEEP THEMSELVES cool.
The Korean gentleman has wicker work
shirt which keeps his clothes away from
the body and acts as ventilator lying be
tween his abdomen and his gown. He has
wicker cuffs which run from his wrist to
his elbow and which are made of the finest
, of stiff straw. These keep the sleeves
NsFay from the person and the Korean en-
bassy at Washington is the coolest of all
the legations. 1t is from these wicker
bustles worn over the belly that the Ko-
reans get their reputation for being such a
fat race. They are fat, but not half so fat
as is supposed. II is this wicker arrange
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uupois. and as fairness in Korea is a sign of
wealth there is no hesitancy shown by a
thin man IN trying TO make himself look
like the fat man in the dime museum. The
Korean has the ligbtest summer hat known
TO the world IL is of the sugar loaf yari-
ETY., is made OF horsehair and IL weighs but
few ounces.
THE FAN COLLECTION
Of the museum represents al the countries
of the east. Even the Sandwich islanders
~Ihave fans, and some OF TIDE South Sea maid
Nens hide their nudity behind fan made of
fragrant grass and not more than six
inches in diameter. The palm leaf fans of
this country and Europe are all made at
Canton, IN China, and the Chinese are
among the tine fan makers of the world.
During MY "trip around the world l visited
Picking and a number of other Chinese
cities, and found whole streets devoted 10
the sale OF fans and lanterns. Swatow, is
city lying on the coast between Shanghai
and Hong Kong, which is noted for its fine
fans. These fans are of fine paper
stretched on frame which curves at the
top, and which thus produces a sort of bow
catching the wind and making them de-
ightfully cooling The fans are beauti-
fully painted and the pictures on them
are the best exhibition of Chinese art
Every Japanese man and woman carries a
ian, and the fans which we get from Japan
are of the cheapest variety. In japan the
gentlemen usually use folding fans and
they carry them in their bosoms under
their collars or stuck into their girdle. 1t
is the ladies who use the fiat fans, and it
would be contrary To etiquette for man to
appear on the street with fan that would
not fold up. Japan has its fan etiquette
and there is as much a language of the fan
as language of flowers. The pretty Yum
Iums Of Toxic and Kiota express through
flaming what American lovers convey by
kissing, for the hot OSCILLATION of America
is unknown among the Japanese either in
the summer or in winter The Japanese
have autograph fans as we have and many
of the young people make fan collections
containing the signatures of their friends
or verses of poetry written by then. One
of the most striking characters of Toxic is
an old fan seller She is a woman of about
eighty who goes around with fans and
brooms, and who cries her wares from
house to house.
AN IMPORTANT COOLING RECIPE
of the far east is the bath, and the hot bath
is taken by the Japanese several times a
day. The bathing is done in the public
bath rooms or in the private tub, and no
soap is used. Many Japanese are now
parboiling themselves in water raised to
10 degrees Fahrenheit, and the whole fam
lily battles in the same tub There is a
model of one Of these tubs at the National
museum, and the average Japanese bath
tub is about three feet high, oval in shape
and 1t has little furnace with stove pipe
running APP above the top OF the tub set into
one end of it. A board keeps this stove
pipe from touching the skin and a few mo-
nlents will heat the bath to boiling. The
Japanese have no false modesty as to the