The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-27

through them. There are miniature
houses, native boats, sedan chairs, all
made from flowers, and made in 4 beauti-
1 IuI manner. A sedan chair in flowers two
feet high aud proportionately wide and
/ long sells Tor about IS cents: if il is filed
inside with howers it may run up to 40
/ cents, and tor that price it will be de-
/ HYered IN your room, wherever
/ you may be living, while the mes
/ Sengers who bring IL will stand around
/ In open-mou'hed admiration, staring
+ al the millionaire who cannot afford TO
/ spend such fabulous sums in simple lux
/ ury. But there is an unfortunate side to
/ VhlS 'tete deS heurs.M the charming
products or lavish nature are rioh and
1 gorgeous in color. but are as odorless as
/ their paper COunterparts. Not a grain Of
per tune can be cOaXed from their velvety
. petals, and not a change in Their air or the
/ closest room Is made bv the presence of a
/ carload of these Corean flowers. 1t is a
/ genuine disappointment to find a rose, so
/ fragrant with US here. TO be there as
| though OF wax, and TO wander through
| Corean fields without once enjoying the
| fresh country smell of new grass and a
! thousand flowers that greet US upon every
| side in America
on NOTHING YEAR.
The fruit is of the same deceptive ma
tlre. A luscious-appearing temptingly
] ANNAANNN k'NAAs ALLO w l4Cil Out' LGGLn SILK
! with anticipation of unlimited satisfac-
ton and one closes his eyes that he may
| better ENJOY his feast, tastes like a mass
! OF dough, and has no more savory tenn
! permanent than is possessed by pound of
/ gla-iers' putty. The fruit is watery, and
that comes from the continued rainy
| season during the summer, but why its
taste is washed out and it should pre-
serve so entlclug an exterior is difficult to
understand. Labor is so cheap in COrea
that the natives may be said to have
solved the problem of how to live on
nothing year. For example, in a Jewell
ers shop the proprietor will weigh an
elabarately chased bracelet or tilagree
bouquet holder or jewel box, and will
! sell it for 30 cents over and above the
| actual value of the metal from which it is
made, the 80 cents representing the cost
| OF expert labor in making the article, and
| also the profit of the dealer in selling it.
/ A worker in gold or silver finds it posi-
/ bic to support himself and possibly his
| family el- wages of 3 cents per day.
| Superintendent of the ordinary workmen
often draw as much as 10 cents daily,
/ and are correspondingly dignitied and ex
/ traVagapt.
After this statement the reader will be
| prepared for the announcement that the
/ paWnbrOklng trade is a tourishing one,
/ and the tough young man who assemblies
/ at the street corners is quite fortunate if
he can steal or borrow a handful of
"kash," equivalent in value to | cent,
each day and give rein to his unhOly
passion for genseng, their substitute for
| whisky, and which, as a tonic, Is much
| more powerful than Peruvian bark.
The silk merchants have a large stock
of attractive goods that would be a tempta-
ton TO any woman. The softest. gauziest,
material OF the queerest patterns never
met III in these commonplace civilized ma
| tons of ours, sells for 70 cents per yard :;
kid gloves reaching to the elbow for 90
cents. Dressmakers and tailors charge
so little over the cost of the material that
| a conscientious customer feels qualms
| about accepting the sacrifice, for it GER
tatnly appears 10 be a sacrifice And yet
| despite this marvellous cheapness there
are numerous secondhand clothing
stores where an entire outfit may be al
most walked away with free of charge,
so lowpriced is it.
COOK AND CANDY SHOPS.
Cook shops are mingled with those Of
fering less gross merchandise, and there
is a method employed for displaying the
wares that differs somewhat from ours
| No meat or made-up dishes are placed
upon tables or hung from the walls, but
rows of hooks on the ceiling support all
there is to be had in the place Strings
] VI SduodSto arc ltSlUOuCu, 5uChluR pigs
hang by the nose, fowl of various kind.
! second joints of dogs, and a great selec-
tion of eatables unknown to US are thus
| in evidence. The customer iuspects
the outfit and points out that
which he thinks best suited to his taste,
and then IL is removed from a hook
/ by means of a long pole. This plan has
the advantage OF preventing the free
/ handling of Joints that is not an unfamil-
lar sight in New York markets. There
are candy stores very much like our own,
| where every variety of sweet mOrsels in
that line are dispensed and where the
Corean children congregate to yearn or
purchase according to their means On
the side streets are opium deus, fire.
quented by the great ma .orty of the
| residents of the city, and at any hour,
day or night consumptive-looking vic
tins of this terrible habit can be seen
! lounging about the doors of these places
waiting for an invitation to smoke.
A curious feature of Seoul life is the
| letter writer, who may be seen sitting in
small neck or hole in the wall awaiting
! his clients. AS there is practically no
education in the country. there are only a
very few of tie people able to read or
write, and so recourse to these public
scribes is a necessity. 1t would seem
from this that the profession must be a
profta BILE one but it is not, because the
| amount charged for the service is so eX-
ceedingly small: the cost of letter that
may mean marriage or heartache, or a
large prospective order in genseng, is
only half a cent.
THEN THEY GAMBLE.
1t does not appear reasonable, with the
! low ebb OF financial matters in this annex
to the flowery kingdom, that gambling
should have got its grim grip upon the
more or less happy residents. But such
! is the case, nevertheless, and gambling is
universal; the children gamble, so do the
women, and of course the men. To such
an extent is this practice carried that it
is not an unusual incident when a Gus
toner OBJ iects 10 the price of an article he
wishes to purchase for the merchant to
propose that they throw dice for it, and
if he wins he gets his first figure whereas
| if the customer wins he secures the arti-
Gle for nothing.
The tea gardens or tea houses are ex-
| quisite little places, often dropped in
among uninviting surroundings but en-
bellished with a delicacy of architectural
! beauty that is simply enhancing. Slender
columns, with all sorts of grotesque
characters upon them, curiously shaped
tables and the fraiest sort of chairs,
china so thin as to be almost transparent,
and tea that has all the aroma the
flowers lack, and all the palate-tickling
attributes generally accredited TO the