Evening journal., 1904-06-08


Antwerp's MiIkmnids.
In the street the traveller learns the
characteristics of race better than in
the house. Man is more artificial out
doors than in. Whether savage or
civilized, he is prone to dress up
when he goes out. Whether it be a
few more feathers or a new frock coat,
the principle is the same. lie is mere
ly a son or q father at home. but in
the street men call him a carpenter, a
barber, a gambler, miser. judge, a
colonel or whatever other name fits
his artificial relations with the outside
world.
When the native Of Constantinople,
for example, visits New York. he needs
only to walk up Broadway to discover
how widely different are the Turkish
and American civilizations. The sight
of a gang Of street cleaners at work
would Immediately claim his attention.
The spectacle would be novel and
strange TO his eyes. He would won
der why these men waste their time
in sweeping the cutters and IN loading
refuse into wagons. Why all this la
Dor for nothing? he asks himself Why
does not the American, Ike the Turk.
let the dogs be the city scavengers7 2
Constantinople existed long centuries
before Manhattan island had streets,
he boasts, and yet the only street clean
ers have been the hungry pariah dogs.
When the American visits Mexico,
he sees in the streets OF such city as
Vera Cruz a spectacle as strange to
him as is a street cleaning brigade to
q Turk He sees vultures roosting on
the house tops or slowly circling over
head with never a flap OF wing, and
when some busy housewife empties
garbage out OF the front window he
beholds the entire flock come swoop-
ing down TO the pavement and fight
over the feast.
How different are the American and
the Algerian ideas Of personal comfort
may be seen by a short walk through
the streets of Tunis. Here one finds
the barber on the sidewalk instead Of
In a shop. Should one desire a shave
he is not invited with a bland welcome
to recline at ease in plush uphol-
stored chair, nor are his senses soothed
with perfumes and salves. On the
contrary, the barber takes one over
his knee, as If to draw and quarter
him. He sauats against a wall, where
all Tunis may watch him as It might
a public executioner. He squirts some
water into ones beard from a dirty
goatskin, rubs the hair the wrong way
few moments and then begins to
scrape. The steel OF his razor is sharp,
but his way Of welding it is relent-
less Should a cut be so deep that one
complains his simple explanation is:
"Only the blood Of a coward runs"
In Korea the horseshoer, like the
barber OF Algeria, makes the street his
place Of business. His forge blazes
within his thatched roof house and
makes one wonder why it does not sci
/ fire 70 the establishment. But no horse
/ is brought indoors. When the Korear
/ jehu finds q shoe OF his beast of bur
den, be leads it 10 the edge OF tho
street, where the horseshoer ties the
nose of the animal to one post and it'
rump to another. From a crosspiect
supported by the two posts he hangs
a moose. which he fits around the
| horses belly. BY means of few
vigorous tugs he lifts the beast almost
of its feet and then completes his task
OF shoeing at leisure.
No customs Of the Yankee and the
] anI
| than the methods Of their milkmen. In
the United States the milkman brings
his supply I'm cans or bottles from his
dairy. In Cuba and Porto Rico be
brings his dairy with him. In walking
through the streets Of Ponce, whether
! in the morning or the afternoon, one
is likely to come on a herd OF cows
chewing their cuds pensively IN from
OF some dwelling house. When the
milkman fills the measure OF bis Gus
toner direct from the udder, he carries
! il foaming into the house, collects 6
few centesimos and drives his herd OF
TO the next doorway. Sometimes h'
will linger % long in a corner caf'
that by the time he leaves his glass o.
rum a couple OF hungry calves have
ended his business for the day. Th'
reason that the West Indian dairymaI
must drive his COW TO his patrons gait
is because milk keeps fresh only a few
hours in such a climate. MIX TO
breakfast must be delivered direc
from the COW early in the morning, an'
for supper late in the afternoon.
In Antwerp, where milk keeps swee
overnight. in winter at least the milk
maids employ almost as rudimentar'
methods. One sees them in the street
driving a pair Of oxen or a team o
dogs that are hitehed TO a lumberinl
wagon containing a huge barrel. Wit
a quart ladle they dole out measur
here and another there into the can
awaiting them on the various door
steps.
Just as the Mexican cobbler work
in the gutter. so the Panaman hattie
makes the street his workshop. Her
be weaves grass into a sombrero be
meath the surface of the water in IN
barrel at his side. In E~Nand aero
hats t1aa the etraefa much ag itineran