Connecticut western news., 1910-12-08
THE NEWS TRAVELLER
 REMEMBERS HIS FRIENDS

Old LakeviIle Boy. Now Touring Korea
 Gives Interesting Description of that
 Parkway Country to the People.
 Editor News: To convey to you, and your readers little idea of Korea life is no easy attempt, so I will call this days ramble with the people of Seoul. First let me start you all off with the correct pronunciation of Seoul, the capital of Korea. It is pronounced Sow-el with emphasis on the Sow, and short el. =..#
 As am to oonfne my story or detail to days ramble, must start like all New Englanders by noting the weather. Have you ever noticed two people from our good old state, (as we'll as the neigh boring states) meet, they will s end several minutes in aluding to the weather and what has happened and what will happen today, tomorrow or next month? So likewise must say today a~typical November day at home. good cool fresh braoing air, with good white frost at night fall. The sun rose and stood we'll high before much real warmth came forth. ....
 Starting with my guide, who is my room steward, valet, and man servant in general, we called our Ricksha boy ,and down through high walls, which is called Legation St, on to the new Palace Gate where on guard stand officers of the JapaneSe army in their yellow and red trimmed uniforms. Beyond lie the many interlacing streets with buildings all one story high, many tiled roofs, but mostly all thatched with rice straw two feet thick. The finest thing about Korean home is the roof, for it's appearance is regular, eveu, kept so by. ropes like 0 hair net over ladies' hair. Another feature, it's roof looks clean. thing in- side unknown, yet the white robed men who move in and out of them have been and always will remain mystery to me how they keep so white.
 The robe, gown or tuki as it is called has the appearance of full grown night shirt, reaching just below the knee, folded over at the right hand side and there tied in a big bow of same material. Below this tuki comes the } waddsd immense trousers fastened tight about the ankles with curious slipper made of strings and the large toe always sticking out. The hat. They are quite complicated mess. A black band of gauge is laid on the head, whereon Il high crown-hke gauge bowl-like cage is with broad band all made of gauge and
 black tied under the chin constitutes the arrangement for every man you meet in Korea who is 8 Korean-I might add that the man who is in mourning wears straw hat about half the size of flour
 barrel, and you cannot see his face; his costume is often the same straw color;
 this he wears for three years after the
 custom of our mourning.
 The ladies of the married class mostly wear green silk coat with sleeves, but never was any one ever known to wear them except in this peculiar fash F ion. They put them over their heads and all you can see is a small portion of their face bright scarlet ribbons one on
 either side float in the breeze. This coat
 comes nearly to bottom of the dress
 then the older and poorer class wear all
 white and small portion of their face is B exposed, but below there appears an inn r mense pair of trousers adding to the ef- 3 feot. The children often wear pink and . blue, the youngest wear nothing. and plenty of them.
 5 Most all the labor is carried on the !, backs of the masses by forked tree-like 3 arrangement with braces of rope going
 under the arms. I have seen today on
 the outer road, outside the walls, hun
 dreds upon hundreds of these burden
 loaded boys, all earring vegetable, looks , like celery only larger and piled up 12 feet high.
 2 When ever you find the poor little . Korean ponies working they are like the = oxen here completely out of sight, as 3 their burdens are roped on in such a way
 and to height you would wonder. any
 animal could stand under, Thus you
 have an individual idea of the masses,
 multiply them by thousands and thous. !, ands in by ways with a large sprinkling V of Chinese in their oriental colors and l, the thousands of, Japanese in their v kimonos and wooden shoes ,and cloud. a less sky ,and shops filled with brasses and t curious workings;sho of chests all de. I corated with brass, ,and all such oommod.
 ities as natives might buy and you take