The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08

n idHOlSI 80 FOlhOiS oHN oNf''N'~'
Queer Scenes in Bazars - Odd
Business Methods-Pieeons that
. Whstle-Land Where the Women
Chew Tobacco-They Are Cieanly q
and Take Swim Twice Day. .
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Copyright. 1901. by Frank G. Carpenter)
weltevreden. Java.-I want to tell you
something about the little brown people OF
Java. They are the most loyable of all
coiored races outside of Japan. and even
more quaint nan the japanese. There are
25OOOOOo Of them on this little island, and
they are swarming about me as | make
notes under the shade Of the palm trees
NV seat looks ont on the wide canal which
runs through wehcvreden. 1t is walled
with brick hut at every few feet there are
stone steps leading dawn into the water
and in each Of these places Iayanese girls
are standing waist-decp in the canal wash
ing themselves or their clothes.
They are a cleanly people. Every Jaw
anese takes his bath night and morning
and the bright cottons they wear are fire.
quertAy secured. The little girls down
there in the water have bag-llke skirts or
sarongs wrapped tightly about their plump
bodies Just under the arms, and the rich
golden brown OF their shoulders shows ont
as they bend down al their work The wet
sarongs cling to their forms like the tradi-
tlonal paper on the wall and they look
ike brown statues with the lghtest OF
draping. Notice how their shoulders bob
up and down as they rub the clothes on
the stones. There is one turning around
she Is wrlnging the clothes, and here is
another holding wet garment high in the
cir and bringing It down with slap on the
steps TO get the dirt out.
How the Javanese Battle.
See the men and women swimming about
in the canal. There are scores of them,
bathing together, all dressed In these thin
cotton Farones. There are grandmothers
and granddaughtcrs. old men and young
men, children and babies the latter Ia the
arms Of their mothers. being dipped in
and out
Here come two girls Of IL for their
daily swim In the warm nov ing water
They are well dressed. after the Ja\aheSe
style; each wears a long cotton Jacket
over the sarong or skirt which forms the
costume Of both women and mon. and each
carries another sarong with her ~ use IN
the hath. Now they have stopped ON the
writing They are letting down their hair.
1t is long and reaches ia the waist. See!
E2ch girl rs lWlsllnE ~ up ia hu"t anu
g. MAJ + may not impele her while swim
ming Now they take of their jackets
nHI hGil up me saronsS l.ey n"Iu pr3ugn ~,
Wred cotton about n ward wide and two
yards in length. Each girl steps Inside
one anu pun @ WI t, drcts nor on.
TO drop 10 her Feet She is now penned In
and shoulders exposed She pulls the bai
close to her person twisting II this wa,
knot at the breast She now folds up he
other dress and laws II with the incket II
me neat t. pic on tGS bank and Jumps int,
the stream Her sister has followed. an
the two arc padding about Ike two ltt
brown ducks. They swim this way an
now only the solcs Of their little brow
feet
They stand IN the canal and scour them
selves, and after a long time spent 10 sport
He anou' WINK s Tp g ~ ,r9tcb,u ber
get ont Of their wet dresses and into h
any Snes hnL ihrS 90 II IN thG hilEht en-, ilgn
1osurs nj pnrsop They ar modest vItb1
and MS innocent ms that little baby VIII
s,nRRdr t9eic on H., max Pndch nStrile me mp
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dnEth'he' nleher' ana tney are OF
more pronounced Malay type. Many o
them have high cheek homes and thet
aros or, q t-ian ,r,o,,. ,,o,.t,.- ~. -, =
'I'' are i'n' "sI"ht' making you thin
Of the chinese. They have thick lips
though nothing ike so thick as the nc
groes
The women as rule are not rs goo
looking as the men, although many Of tn
Young girls are pretty; Those Of the bet
high narrow forsSeads fa iPpe nood hT noan
and luscious red lips; They are particula
versalIy nolIte and VIII b be' AM oTS I'M
so of both sexes
They Marry at Twelve.
The women marry very Young. Girls mr.
often mothers at ii or l. years OF age. an
old maids are almost unknown. Among tn
poorer classes the women do as much wor