Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
S|BER|ANS MOVE
TO CLEAN HOUSE
Home Life in Other Countries
Shows Complexities of
Modern System.

The American wife calls upon cleo.
! ..--!:c.ty to run her radio and refrigerator
to help her with the cooking, heating
ironing, lighting and sweeping hel
home. and rightly believes she has
simplified her housekeeping.
Yet, with all that, the American anc
European homes seem complex to coun.
tries where there are no beds or chairs
or perhaps no tables or lamps, nor any
windows, silver or carpets to clean.
Housekeeping at its simplest, prob
ably, is the tyne practiced by Samoyec
women of Siberia" says bulletin from
the National Geographic Society. 'They
do not even bother to clean house
When they throw SO much refuse on
the floor that it is difficult to get
around, they pull up stakes and plant
their tent in a, new and clean spot
The abandoned tent sites, rightfully
enough are regarded as unclean and
no one else pitches tent there.
Turkestan Housewives Weave Rugs.
Home life in Turkestan is largely
a matter of making rugs. Turkestan
rugs are so famous that 1t is more
profitable for woman to alternate hel
household duties with weaving, or even
neglect them for weaving. And, III
the land of rugs, the women OF Turke-
stan use the bare earth for floor.
The mud hutS of the Turkomans
are not conducive to interior decoration
They are windowleSs, which obviates
embarrassing on the part of the
Turkestan women, and the furniture
is limited to a few benches and tables
Poppy seeds are sometimes carried by
the wind into the mud and thatch roofs
of the houses, and, after rains, one cen
see houses with their tops abloom with
peoples.
Helps to Build House.
1.-THE Tibetan wife not only manages
her household and does the light house
work, but she even helps erect hel
house. Cooking, sweeping and water
carrying do not encompass her tai.
ents. She helps the men sow, rear
and pillow. and develops her muscles
by cutting firewood and carrying huge
bundles to her abode
I'm Burma the housewife bother:
little about littering up her house with
long as the weather permits meals are
cooked and eaten outdoors. Her house
usually stands about feet above the
ground, and the floors are of bamboo
cane. Most of the dust that falls or
the floor sits right through the cane
so sweepers would be drug on the
market in that section of the world.
No Ironing in Japan.
Japan is modernized, but many old
customs persist in the rural homes. The
japanese housewife rolls up her bed and
stores it away every morning. Much OF
her furniture likewise may be rolled
up and stored away. as it consists main
" of mats and cushions. There are
no windows to wash. no picture frames
to dust and the walls fold back to let
in the breezes. Dishes are washed in
cold water and even clothes can be
washed without those two requisites OF
the Western world-hot water and soap.
Irons are not needed, for cotton is
dried by stretching on bamboo poles,
and wet silk is smoothed on board
and dried in the sun. The worst form
of rudeness would be for one to traverse
the highly polished floor of Japanese
home without first removing his shoes.
1.-THE Egyptian peasant women along