The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-03
WOMEN AND THE WAR
What the Russo Japanese Con-
Hict Means to Them.
AT MANS WORK.

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Two Thousand japanese Women Are
Laying the Great sewer In Tokyo.
How korean Women Are Doing the
work Of The country Primitipe
Implements Used.
Two thousand Japanese women rs
ing the great sewer in the streets Of
Tokyo; hundred thousand Korean
Women, mayhap. blowing the fields
with rude heavy implements, scatter
ing seeds and laboring at the rice mill
over what may remain Of the last crop
these things spell part Of the meaning
Of the Russo-Japanese war 70 oriental
women, says the san Francisco Chrors
icle.
The women who are struggling with
Tokyo's sewer mains are first and fore
most struggling with the problem Of
| something to eat. The good man Of
the family father, husband or som
is q patriot, and he Is at the front, aud,
alas, patriotism IN this case cannot ill
all the hungry mouths at home
Two thousand japanese coolies who
were laying the sewer dropped pick
and erowbar to take up rifles and side
arms and march away across Korea.
Two thousand women of Tokyo, with
none left to provide for them, were
| eager and glad TO take up the picks
and the bars that the neeessaries 81
/ life might not rise altogether above
their reach They have men for fore
men, but no men TO lift the heavy
| weiehts and to DO the grinding part
Of the labor. 4 woman who cannot
stand the work finds another woman
| waiting at her elbow ready to take her
place If she drops out and down
/ Iii Korea the women are doing the
work Of the country That means that
the Korean women are doing the things
| which must be done to support life and
decrease discomforts 10 the bearable
point, for Korea has never beer ambi-
tious above its everyday necessities
The brave Korean men said boldly THAT
III japanese troops set foot across the
| border OF their country they would not
remain at home and permit the inva.
sion. They would mass and march 70
turn back the soldiers Of tile mikado
The men Of Korea have been half as
| good as their word they did not march
to turn back the japanese troops, but
| they fed from home to the bills until
doubly assured that no violence was
meant their precious selves Then they
ventured from cover, not back 70 their
home life. such as Il was, but 70 follow
tie army, to become its seryltors to
do anything which the Japanese told
them they must do to earn a penny Or
avoid a kick.
Korean women are tilllng the fields
and grinding at the primitive mills. To
them manual labor may be less hard
than to the japanese women because
it IS not 50 new.
The implements and methods Of work
are most primitive When sod is to be
turned for the planting Of millet ropes
are attached to the sides Of large
spade and woman tugs at each rope
while third woman holds the handle
ana steers the dun blade into the
ground. When the shovel Is full the
sod Il turned The staple crop Is beans
and beans require a deeper planting :
bullock draws a rough pillow a WON
All with a child upon her back guides
the bullock and handles the pillow, Eael
village has its one well from which Tbs
water supply Of an who live u ths
neighborhood must be drawn. Twice
day the Korean Reheccas gather q us
well to draw water and bear It away
in any receptacle which they may q
fortunate enough % possess iheH
hard lives are fun Of work and th'
war has made tile work little harder