Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-20
WOMEN OF THE WORLD.
DAILY LIFE OF WOMEN OF DIFF
F92ENT NATIONS.
A0anssa Cooking Stove and the Boiling Baskets
sfAia,ka-Curious Kitchens In Turkey
New the Girls Of Siam, Egypt and
India Clean Their Clothes.

India Clean Their Clothes.
Ihave spent this week among the
4osEsewives of the world. SAYS Wash
Aagtoa correspondent The National
0xseum has cooking utensils Of every
amGi0o and every tribe, and you may
80 within it how women wash and iron.
&sl aad bake. stew and steam all the
Oueid over. A picture OF Samoan
Kitchen has just been received and
xAero are complete outfits OF Japanese
sad Chinese houses. with models OF
'sAe women working away within them.
Tho Samoan range is hole in ground
SD :he cooking is done with red hot
-sasaea When the people want feast
ehey dig hole in the ground as big
- Z cider barrel. fill it full of wood
smd cover it with stones. They light
HSe wood aud when the stones are red
hat they pull them off to one side and
s.seaa out the hole. They then put
lager Of the hot stones in the bottom
at it. and upon this layer bananas,
cAsckens and vegetables wrapped in
saavcs are laid. Another layer OF red
1sos stones put on top and on this is
san0ther layer Of eatables and 60 on till
The hole is filled. Upon the top Are
Il built and the whole steams and
1soks away NATL the lightly dressed
Samoan lady pronounces the dinner
3ooked- 1t is said to be feast for
king.
1ho Alaskans also cook with stones,
acd lhere are boiling aud baking bas-
aEts in the museum brought from the
Esquimaux. The boiling baskets are
~ coarse waterproof, and the water is
heated by dropping red hot stones into
ahem- They are OF about the size OF n
peck measure and are as beautiful as
aay faacy work basket you will find in
aAe United States. The baking baskets
mo = little larger. The food is put
Into them and is roasted by hot stones
4eSag rolled around over them. The
akakiag of the basket keeps it from
Aarning aud the people get fat upon
-anch food Among some OF the tribes
0smah cast iron stove has been lately
AnesOduced. 1t stands in the center OF
1Ao room and the fuel is often made OF
asai oil The chief food is fish and
- kindling is grass. The women are
- wood cutters OF the family. but
laAsy ere the wash women only so far
- t,eir own clothes are concerned.
Every man in Alaska washes his own
'easthes and ironing is practically uu-
known.
Every nation washes its dirty clothes
>di6erently from every other nation.
The hardest worked washerwomen OF
-fA0 world are the Koreans. They have
- wash about dozen dresses for their
A9s6ands and inasmuch as every man
weaxs pantaloons or drawers SO baggy
eAsx they could come up to his neck,
like those Of a clown. they have plenty
q do. Tho washing is usually done
- cold water. and often in running
stFeAms. and there Is here in the muse.
Sm Korean ironing board and irons
T1e board Is nothing but block Of
'wOod and the irons are two paddles.
Iho clothes are laid on the wood aud
inrn pounded with these paddles until
Gey shine like shirt bosom fresh
from . Chinese laundry. Tho best
aEsssod people In Korea ara the men.
They wear the most delicate colored
1ewas Of cotton and silk. OF red, light
-eeuo. pink and green, aud it takes
' Snmaa half her time to do the wash
ling. You hear this pounding going on
aaU and night in any Korean town, and
= Il One Of the queerest characteris-
eins II the Korean people. The Japan
40 rip their clothes apart for every
~2shias and they iron their clothes by
aQueading them out on a fiat board and
Asxaing this up against the house to
. dry The sun takes the wrinkles out
- the clothes, and some OF them have
Xuzte . lustre. The Japanese woman
laos hcr washing out of doors. Her
1aahtub Is not more than six inches
nigh and is about as big
,osaad as the average dish-pan.
ia has never heard of wash
aAzrd and she gets the dirt out OF the
clothes by rubbing them to and from
SeGween her hands. She sometimes
Iases Japanese soap. which is full OF
grease and she works away in her
Sare feet II the weather is warm she
~lH pull her clothes down to her
waist and will feel no shame though
<he street be full OF people. No blu.
.asg l. used aud as for boiling out the
'lir4 In q tin boiler this is unknown.
fhe Chinese girls do their washing in
much the same way save there is not
=. much publicity about it. and the
4rsG4y short-haired beauties of Siam
.Wear their gowns on Thorn into the big
.Eiser and wash them while taking