Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-01
HOW THEY RIDE.

the ankles to about the middle of the cali, tying
it round and round with u string. Their dresses
are short and they tuck them up while they are
working. They wear little or no underelothes
and their summer dress consists Of this shirt
a chemise and short sack, which extends only
to the waist Even on a fete day their dresses
are not very expensive and costume
consisting OF white chemise cut
low at the neck with long, full
sleeves and dropping down to the knees, with
an apron tied around over the bust, constitutes
a womans outfit. This chemise-like dress Is
fastened over the bust and under the arms and
IL held by braces over the shoulders. The
apron ia tied around the waist, as we'll az over
the shoulders, and the skirt reaches nearly to
the feet The dress is embroidered with a
cross-stiich Of red and blue, and the neck above
the chemise is often covered with strings Of
beads.
These costumes vary in different parts of the
country. In Little Russia the dresses are often
one mass Of embroidery. and the women wear
a very pretty embroidered crown over their
heads, and the dresses come high about the
neck The nurses everywhere have costumes
of their own, and the Finnish girls, who act as
the wet nurses for the babies of ST. Petersburg,
always have crowns upon their heads, and you
can tell nurse far as you can see
her. The peasant woman knows nothing of
the corset and she has no idea of fashion. The
people wear the same Costumes from year to
year. and the peasant dress of today Is the same
as that of generations ago. / In Kazan
Mohammetan women who wore sacks over
their heads with the sleeves hanging down on
the shoulders and with only crack at the front
through which they could they went
along the street, and the dress of these women
was almost exactly like that of the women OF
Korea. saw other women there whose heads and
breasts were covered with gold coins just like
those Of the women whom you seem the Himalaya
mountains Of India on the borders of Tibet,
and these Tartar women have the same bronze
faces and high cheekbones that are found in
the girls Of the Himalaya mountains. They are
OF MOugolian origin and they look more like
Chinese than Americans. The coins which they
wear real coins and they generally repre-
seat the dover which the woman brings into
the family when she is married. Some Of the
women Of Little Russia have a similar way OF
ornamanting themselves. and got photograph
Of one who had breast plate covered with
gold coins and whose head was loaded down
with them.
THE WORK OF PEASANT WOMEN.
Speaking Of woman's work among the peas
ants, the hardest field work is done by the
women and they get lower wages than the men.
Their hours are from about in the morning to
: or 5 clock in the evening and 10 cents a day
Is big wages. III they receive food their wages
are even less than this, and IN some parts of
Russia girls get cents day and board them
selves In other regions their wages rise as
high as 90 cents. and in a very few parts Of the
empire they are paid even more than this
They rule better workers
than the men and they do not seem
to appreciate how badly of they are
hear them singing in the fields as travel
throughout the country, and they do not seem
to think their life hard one. They seem to
think they were made for work. and married or
single their life Is of toll almost from birth
until death.