Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1887 — Washing Day in Corea. [ARTICLE]

Washing Day in Corea.

The Corean women, who, unlike good children, are heard but not seen, give evidence of their wakefulness and industry all night long. Corean white .cotton and hemp clothes are washed by being pounded on a stone in some dirty pool or creek around the city, and they are ironed, or rather given their silken gloss, by being wound tightly on wooden rollers and pounded by the hour. Two women sit on the ground, facing each other, with the roller between, and play lively tunes with a pair of wooden drumsticks that each one holds. That rat-tat keeps up all night, and one hears it all day, and when Corean women get time to gosisip is a question.— St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Road making was reduced to a science by McAdam, during the latter half of the last century, and from him comes the term “macadamized” as applied to road making by using stones into irregular sizes. Chancellob, an English captain, first sailed into the White Sea in 1553, 'and this led to the building of Archangel and the commerce of Russia.