New-York tribune., 1900-01-19
WOMEN OF MANY LANDS.
SOME OF THEIR NOTICEABLE TRAITS AS
DESCRIBED BY MRS CONNER.
WHY TIE BROWN woMAN'' AGES so EARLT-
TIE ARABS FATE THE sADDEsT OF
AII-FTLIPINO BABIES.


TIE ARABS FATE THE sADDEsT OF
AIL-F1LIPINo BABIES.
The longer stay away from home" said Mrs.
Eliza Archard Conner vel known journalist Of
this country who has reached England after a
trip around the world writing from the Isle Of
Jersey her views Of the brown woman" and the
more I see OF women in other lands. the more
grateful I become that the United States is my
home and I going back TO II by and by
Il is well for American woman to go around
the world just 10 find how well OF she is at
home
1T IS not that all women Of the barbarous and
half civilized races bad existence in the
mere physical sense horse Laplander's
reindeer Is always well treated by the master who
knows enough 10 get the most work out of It, The
great fact in the lives OF women OF the uncivilized
peoples IS they animals. There Ger
tainIy half billion human females in this condi-
ton, and most OF them even ignorant that II Is
& deplora Die one, heaven help them! Let there
fore be thankful that freebOrn daughters Of
the great Western Republic are at least in the be-
ginning OF discovering that beings with
immortal souls and responsible for the development
OF intellect and our own individual char
acter.
AT fifty years OF age the intelligent white woman
who has taken care Of herself and not fretted her
self half 70 death is at best sometimes her
handsomest well. AT forty the brown woman
looks ike old witch. and seems more aged than
many white woman at eighty. Her teeth are
gone her face q patch OF wrinkles criss-crossed
Thenceforward she IS a slave, who only scold
IN shr1u protest against her fate. II merely
hot climate that ages unctvilized women rapidly,
for the Esquinau Indian Of the Yukon IS
old forty the Malay female Of the Philip
pines at the same age It is simply that they
animals and animals grow old quickly. Among
some thousands Of brown and yellow women
have rarely seen one even commonly pretty, except
among the japanese.
The Esquirau Indian has as grand contempt
ha1-F nth oE HES S0hF16 zen
an old fashioned Englishman Scotchman. He
strides forward free and unhampered, while the
squaw sometimes trudges painfully behind with
two children upon her back The beady eyed little
brown baby is put into long and wide bandage
OF muslin that is crossed in front OF the mothers
breast and tied around her waist passing likewise
over her shoulders. The infant Is put into the
baggy part the back Thus ii is carried like
pedIer's pack, sometimes thirty miles a day. Its
legs are spread wide apart and drawn one each
side around the mothers waist, 10 balance the
load, Children carried thus TIL
they are three years old, both by the Esquimau
squaws Of the Yukon and by the japanese women.
The consequence is a wabbling. bow legged walk
IN the adult in Of both Esquimau and
Jap. This common method Of carrying children
as well as a strong general resemblance in FORM
color and feature, is good evidence that the mod
ern Japanese and the most northerly Indians Of
North America are descended from a common
mother race. whatever that was
Again. Jap Esqurnau and Malay have alike
down Ike a white person. The brown Oriental
woman VIII draw her skirt around her from be
hind tuck II between her knees and sit upon her
heels all day in a broiling sun. washing clothes,
as she devoutly believes. though where the washing
comes IN is hard for a white person say On the
other hand. when individual Of one OF the squat
ting races attempts 70 sit upon a chair ike
white person he quickly gives up the endeavor, and
either draws mis- feet up under him softly slides
on the chair upon the floor. where he fold
himself UP jackknifelike and be easy and
Portable How fashions differ!
The Tagal woman Of the Philippines. instead Of
spreading her infant around her back. rides it
astr1de her hip usually the left 1t, too. IS
tied in e bandage to keep il steady. like the Jap
and EsqUimau babies. II is unhealthful to put
clothing upon infants, the Tagal wise women say
makes them break out in ringworm. Therefore the
Filipino baby is clothed with nothing save the
glossy brown skin that nature gave it, except per
haps on sunday and hlgh Gh1rch days wnen II
Tagal mother. with her infant astride her nip her
ton train swishing behind her, and with tremen-
dous Manila cigar between her lips, is as unique
specimen Of w0ma nhood 4 this earth affords ou
can see her many times every day IN Manila;
are the H4wal-ans; Hawaiian women are uyeiy
ana good tempered, and rather comely IN their
flowing red or white Mother Hubbard gowns, which
the closest concession 10 civilized feminine g2rb
that the good missionaries could eXtort from
them Inc aa~allan woman frequently turns from
the wooer CT her own race, who likes work no
Ior nm nm z oFlsHt eyeei pig 1g t,tiois Ions
g Industrious as their yellow father. II is
that the Hawaiian woman loves the ChInaman
more but she loves work less, and she knows John
VII at least earn living for her, so she need not
out washing
The saddest fate Of all is perhaps that of the
Arab woman Of the desert so far any higher
development goes. these OF the tropics have
souls The husband and sons Of the Arab wom-
believe literally that she has none, and despise
her accordingly.
When We passed through the Suez Canal the
thermometer stood al 100 in the shade, with
north wind blowing directly upon the tube Yet
day. along the banks Of the canal wandering Arab
families, with their canaels and other belongings.
Il was day when only the thiunest clothing and
the utmost good temper could make life endurabe.
Yet those miserable Arab women were swathed
from head 70 foot in heavy black garments, only
loungec around n naked comfort but these poor
creatures sweltered dunnbly and only thought it
served them right for being born II is the
Arab men who force them TO be wrapped up Ike
muUnies- l never felt sorry for woman before.
All over the Oriental tropics do the house
work cooking. cleaning and serving Except
among the japanese rarely z
vice for anything but nursing children and they
are not particularly good that In the Philip
pines q native husband frequently supports his
fanny by dong housewOrk at 81 a month, while
as WlIe stays n her palm hut goes and sells
fruits ana vegetables street corner. After her
stock Is disposed OF she sits upon her dusty bare
cally out upon the world.
. Man for man and woman for woman. the na-
IVes o. the oriental tropics can endure habtuaIIy
more rest than any other people have SEEN
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