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

great square The goods are spread out
ON little counters, piled w on the floor, or
hung up behind the merchants, or more
often, II may use the term. merchant
esses, who squat on the bricks
One SECTION Is given NJ TO the cloth Ia
Ears Here the gayest Of calcoes hang OIL
and yellow goods ~ all kinds forming a
striking background to the brownfaceh,
hare-anked, bare-footed women. who sit
there and sell. Farther on are the tallors
There are dozens Of shops, each owned BY
male or female drCssmaker. who Is work
Ing away. How an American tailor would
laugh OF the sight, They are using sew
ing machines. but the machines are all
worked by hand. and they rest Hat on
boards on the floor, and not on stands, as
with US. Here is girl sewing on n SILK
jacket. She sits cross-legged on the iloor
with the machine in front Of her Now q
has stopped sewing and Is reellng spool
OF pink SILK on the bohhln She holds the
machine between her bare toes as she
works. She Is bare armed and bare shout
dered, and she has beautiful hands.
In the next shop is prettier woman.
dressed In cream culored jacket AMI
bright red sarong. fierce Malay man,
wearing a turhan. red i0cket and black
gown. sits beside her 1t may be her hus-
band or possibly n customer waiting FIR
that skirt on which she Is sowing. Notice
the 1ewclry which the woman wears. Sine
mas a half dozen bracelets Of silver ana
| bracelet and three rings of gold. Her jack
81 Is fastened at the breast with q great
medallion Of silver 70 which hang long
silver chains aud she has a silver belt
around her waist.
Female Druggists.
Leaving the tailor shops we 20 on TO the
drug stores. They are In little she s
rooted with palm leaves upheld 10y poles
OF bamboo In each she'd Is a table just
about as big rs double bed and about
as high from the ground In the center Of
the table squuts the druggist with her
goods about her In little Hat baskets he
sits with her feet under her. and IN mos
eases '--"- tobacco or bctel nut MS she
sells The baskets are Of all sizes; they
| are filed with various kinds Of roots nuts
and powders. One basket contains cotton
| bands, another has a white powder, and In
| ginger and every conceivable thing. As
we wait a woman comes up with "a habf
| who looks pale and sick The druggi
! sizes the little one up with her eye aud
| then gives the mother about quart Of va
| riOus medicines and tells her to boil them
up into tea for the sick infant
! Farther on We stop in the tobacco h1z7r.
| Here the business Is done by both women
and men. Tobacco Is sold in great qulnti
or roll. The most Of the native tobacco Is
put up in rolls, twisted like ropes T he
I wrapping paper is banann leaf, which $
| through the ends sometime, the bundi y
| are tied with strands of dried banana peel
banana leaves banana neel .nnh thorns
market and all sorts Of goods are done up
n them There are places which seil notn
their leaves ana string
In the Market OF Dokja.
Some Of the most interesting bazars 7
have seen In Java are those Of DIot "a.
This is the capital of the state far in the
interior, ruled by n sultan. whore the ua.
tiyes are much as they were centuries ago
when the Dutch first came to the country
nJokia is n large CITY. and its bazats
cover many acres. They consist Of vast
us f'"ieu win thln hrlck uIeS Whi
, are green with the moss of old agc. Here
the business is done almost entirely by
: women the various trades and goods being
, chsSlhtd' In on" section | found nothing
, nut coal merchants, sooty facet < rS
about them. ,acb Fri had bnndIe "f
banana leaves beside her and her measure
Iold rfn Ico,.6 Sg Dr VIM one l'9i w"ul
i a sheet ~ fooscap and n leuf fun Of coal
g Gf ratton" 0n ,r''S LIE S''''E was Slr'p
! Next to The coal sheds were the vcge
n tanlG merchants and farther on sheds con
The vcgntnbcs ,ynrc sold h io u"" go
). one pile Of i've potatoes. cach the size of .
. walnut, and was told that | could have 4
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i by The cnpfuI. and alfogether a STOCK wortI
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n which Inv NJ tho coroonrt neld,crs /,
II H.. bo7ars mora il s"c"t lttin COCO"
nut seller In Diotia, who has the frrshes
au nan, go y IN " 1n 'n 6" Nh. 9c,
i, them M with a cleayer, so that YOU ear
= drink the sweet coccanut water fresh from
t ,he l SnSs assure you 1t IL "''nN 10
" Pigeons that Whistle.
stonncd IN tho chIckon mortct an,
, fornd nm cor,1 Inv good naIr =, hroi,
i 49, - IVY " So ~ W
( erS Tor shilling ana then went To shc'
r where there were hundreds OF cages o
!, ,i,,oo,s cf all colors Tho co,os y.oro n
P'3'V''' Va az N"9'N "'''
, bamboo, each about as big around as
= -four barrel and n foot or so high Eacl
All, .,.,, ,,,oo,s u.hi.h ,,.,.
d cage was hlled with pigeons Whl'h Wer
!. selling ior cents ana up"'ruS "P''e'' iu
8 woman VINO WIS pe"u,'nE 'n''n 'u' W."
$ seiHng whistles win tuem' |" ue ''eu
/ the to'IS OF tne p'seohS' SO 'uo. tn'y 'r's s.
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