The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-28
UVES OF THE WORLD.
g the Women Of q Dozen
Nations Keep House.
~ BEDROOMS OF THE ORIENT.
- ne Girls Of Siam, Egypt and India
Clean Their Ciothes-Ths Leaf
Wsarers Of aindostan.

/ sssonsl museum has cooking utensils Of
Jsrrv nation and every tribe, and you may
within it how women wash
- iron, boil and bake. stew
~ steam ail the world over. A
,ie.ure of = Samoan kitchen has just
IN received, and there are complete out
i 4. e Japanese and Chinese houses. with
-adels Of the women working away with
i them. The Samoan range Is hole IN the
srorud. and the cooking ID done with red.
81 stones. When the people want fsast
they die hole - big - cider barrel. MI
/ 4 iull Of wood and cover it with stones.
| my light the wood, and when the stones
3, redhot they pull them of to one side
/ md dean out the hole. They then put >
ievsr Of the hot stones in the bottom of it.
"A mon this layer bananas. chickens and
,.sptabies wrapped In leaves are laid.
another layer Of red hot stones are put on
q. and on this is another layer Of eat
~ and 30 on till the hole is filed. Upon
- ton ! fire 10 built and the whole steams
"A cooks away until the lightly -dressed
samoan lady pronounces the dinner
eooked. It Is said to be feast for king.
HOW THE ALAsKAEs COOK.
The Alaskans also cook with stones,
M there are boiling and baking baskets
q the museum brought from the Esqui-
uaux. The boiling baskets are, Of course.
v,ter.proof, and the water is heated by
Asoooing red hot stones into them. They
sre 81 about the size of peck measure
and are as beautiful Is any fancy work
basket you will lind in the United States.
The baking baskets are little larger. The
food Is put into them and is roasted by hot
stones being rolled around over them.
The shaking Of the basket keeps 1t from
burning and the people get fat upon such
iood. Among some of the tribes q small
east-iron stove has been lately introduced.
II stands in the center of the room and the
fuel is often made of seal oil. The chief
food il fish and the kindling is grass. The
women are the wood-cutters of the family,
but they are the wash women only so tar
. their only clothes are concerned. Every
man in Alaska washes his own clothes and
ironing is practically unknown.
TIE wAsHIRwoMEN or TIE WORLD.
Every nation washes its dirty clothes
differently from every other nation. The
hardest worked washerwomen Of the world
are the Koreans. They have to wash
about dozen dresses for their husbands,
and inasnuch as every man wears
pantaloons or drawers so baggy that they
could come up to his neck. like those Of ,
clown. they have plenty to do. The wash
ing il usually done in cold water and often
in running streams, and there is here in
the museum . Korean ironing board and
irons. The board is nothing but block Of
wood and the irons are two paddles. The
clothes are laid on the wood and ara
pounded with these paddles until they
shine like q shirt bosom fresh from .
Chinese laundry. The BEST dressed people
in Korea are the men. They wear the
most delicate colored gowns OF cotton and
silk, Of red, light blue, pink, and green. and
Il takes q woman half her time
TO do the washing. You hear this
pounding going on day and night In any
korean town, and it is one Of the queerest
characteristics of the Korean people. The
japanese rip their clothes apart for every
washing, and they iron their clothes by
spreading them out on fat board and
leaning this up against the. house to dry.
The sun takes the WRINKLES out Of the
clothes, and some of them have quite u
luster. The Japanese woman does her
washing out Of doors. Her washtub is not
more than six inches high, and is about IS
big around as the average dishpan. She
has never heard of q washboard, and she
eets the dirt out of the clothes by rubbing
them to and fro between her hands. She
sometimes uses Japanese soap, which is
full of grease, and she works away in her
hare feet. II the weather is warm she
will pull her clothes down to her waist,
and feel no shame, though the street
be full of people. No bluing is used, and
Is ior boiling out the dirt in q tin boiler,
this is unknown. The Chinese girls do
their washing In much the same way. save
that there il not so much publicity about
il, and the pretty, short-haired beauties Of
Siam wear their gowns on them into the
big river and wash them while taking their
bath. When they get through they trot up
the steps of their floating houses, and wrap
ping q clean sheet around their bodies they
Slip off the wet clothes from under it and
wiring them out to dry. Many OF the In
dian girls battle in the same way in the
Ganges, and the washing in Egypt is usu.
ally done by the men. The Egyptian wash
erman stands naked on the banks OF the
Nile and slaps the wet clothes with noise
like the shot of . pistol on the smooth
stones at the edge of the running water,
and such fellah women as wash pound the
dirt out of their clothes in the same way.
The Scotch girls tramp the dirt out of the
washing with their shapely feet, tucking
their dresses up above the knees as they
tread the suds, and the French women
pound the dirt out with paddles, often
slapping the clothes upon stones IS the
Egyptians.
SOME CURIOUS KITCHENS.
The Japanese kitchen is always supplied
with running water and the cooking stoves
shown in the museum would be laughed 1t
by an American housewife. They are lit
Tie affairs about two feet square, and the
average stove cooks but one dish at q time.
They are heated with charcoal, and in both
Japan and 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
oven-like ledge, built in one side of the
house, upon which the family sleeps dur.
ing cold night, and in holes in which the
cooking is done by day. once stopped in
Chinese inn, and took notion to go into
the kitchen, where my meal was being
cooked. / found twenty dirty Tar
tars sleeping on one end OF the stove and
though the mutton was sizzling away over
the open lire my appetite rapidly disap-
peared at the sight The Burmese cook.
ing-stove is . box filled with ashes in which
q FIRE is made and the food is cooked upon
the Goals. No meat is eaten and the
Buddhists fear that they may be masticat.
ing the bodies OF their re-incarnated ances-
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animal life. The priests carry this to the
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