The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-20
WOMEN OF MANY LANDS.
SoWE OF THEIR NOTICEABLE
 TRAITS
"Brown Woman" Ages so Early-the Arabs Fate the saddest of A1i-Fili- pino Babies.

Arabs Tate the saddest of AIl-FiIt-
 pino Babies.
 :. The longer l stay away from home"
 said Mrs. Eliza Archard Conner, a well
 known journalist of this country, who
 has reached England after trip around
 the world, writing from the Isle of Jer-
 sey her views of the brown woman"
 and the more I see of the women in
 other lands the more grateful become
 that the United States is my home and
 that l am going back to it by and by.
 It is we'll for an American woman to go
 around the world, just to find out how
 well off she Is at home.
 Tt is not that all women of the bar
 barous and half civilized races have so
 ban an existence in the mere physical sense. A horse or a Laplander's rein
 deer is always well treated by the mas
 ter who knows enough to get the most
 work out of it, The great fact in the
 lives of women of the uncivilized peo-
 ples is that they are mere animals.
 There are certainly half million hu-
 man females in this condition, and most
 of them are even ignorant that it Is
 deplorable one, heaven help them!
 Let us therefore be thankful that we
 freeborn daughters of the great Vest
 ern Republic, are at least in the begin
 ming of discovering that we are beings
 with immortal souls and responsible for
 the development of our own intellect
 and our own individual character.
 At fifty years of age the intelligent
 white woman who has taken care of
 herself and not fretted herself half to
 death Is at her best, and sometimes her handsomest as well. At forty thebrown
 woman looks like an old witch, and
 seems more aged than many white
 woman at eighty Her teeth are gone,
 her face patch of wrinkles criss-cross-
 ed. Thenceforward she is 8 slave who can only scold in shrill protest against
 her fate It is not merely hot clim- ate that ages uncivilized women so rap
 idly, for the Esquimau woman of the Yukon is old at forty as the Malay fe- male of the Philippines at the same age It is simply that they are animals, and animals grow quickly. Among some thousands of brown and yellow women have rarely seen one even commonly pretty except among the Japanese.
 'The Esquinau Indian has as grand a contempt for helping with the care of his children as even an old fashioned Englishman or Scotchman. He strides forward free and unhampered, while the .sqiaw sometimes trudges painfully behind with two children on her back. The beady eyed little brown baby is put into long and wide bandage of mus lin, that is crossed in front of the ,ny.te kroo ct tip6 around her waist, passing likewise over her shoul- ders The infant is put into the baggy part at the back. Thus it is carried like a pedler's pack, sometimes thirty miles a day. Its legs are spread apart and drawn one on each side around the I mothers waist, to balance the load, as it were. Children are carried thus till 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 case of both Esquimau and Jap. This common method of carrying | children, as well as a strong general re- emblance in form, color and feature, Is good evidence that the modern Japanese and the most northerly Indians Of | North America are descended from a common mother race, whatever that was.
 Again; Jap, Esquimau and Malay have alike a way of squatting upon | their feet instead of sitting down like a white person. The brown Oriental wo- man will draw her skirt around her from behind, tuck 1t between her knees | and sit upon her heels all day in broiling sun, washing clothes, as she de- voutly believes, though where the wash ing comes in is hard for a white person to say, On the other hand, when an individual of one of the squatting races attempts to sit upon chair like a white person, he quickly gives up the endeavor, and either draws his feet up under him or softly slides off the chair upon the floor, where he can fold him self up jackknifellke and be easy and comfortable. How fashions differ
 r"The Tagal woman of the Philippines, Instead of spreading her infant around her back, rides it astride her hip, usu- ally the left one. It, too Is tied in bandage to keep 1t steady, like the Jap and Esquimau babies. It is unhealthful to put clothing upon infants, the Ta- gal 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 perhaps on Sunday and high church days, when 1t may wear a little shirt reaching to it's waist. A Ta- gal mother with her infant astrde her hip. her feet bare save for straw toe slippers, her red cotton train swishing behind her, and with a tremendous Ma nlla cigar between her lips, is as unique a specimen of womanhood as this earth affords You can see her many times every day in Manila. "The handsomest brown women, and the laziest, are the Hawaiians. Ha- { waiian women are lively and good tenn pered, and rather comedy in their flow ing red or white Mother Hubbard gowns, which are the closest concession to civilized feminine garb that the good could ever extort from them. The Hawaiian woman frequent y turns from the wooer of her own ace, who likes work no better than she loes, and marries a Chinaman, rearing 'or him bright eyed, pigtailed little orood that grow to adult age shrewd, ambitious and as industrious as their ! yellow father. It Is not that the Ha- yaiian woman loves tho Chinaman