Show WOMEN BUTCHERS Unusual Feminine Occupations Pol Fol Followed lowed in Paraguay New Nevo Orleans Dem rat The butchers in all parts of Paraguay Paragua are women In the public slaughter slaughterhouses slaughterhouses houses the cattle are dispatched by men This is the only part of the work done dont by men The animal Is la skinned and anel otherwise prepared by women worn tin who ar are dextrous in the use of or the tIte saw and knife It Is served ser out to the b by women not generally by b weight but by bythe bythe bythe the piece and the price is very vel low 10 Women omen of all au ages act the part o of butchan are young and pretty others old and wrinkled The women aomen are great bargainers and keen to pull pun a new arrival almost to pieces In the hope o 0 ot securing his custom These women butchers earn good wages and many o of those in business on their own account ae acquire a modest fortune The cause of this state of things i ithe is II the heroic war waged by Paraguay more mor than thirty years ago alto against the over overWhelming overwhelming Whelming forces of Brazil the Argentine republic and Uruguay combined This war which lasted five years bore man many similar points of resemblance to the re n recent recent cent Boer Boor war It ended in the almost to total tt total tal annihilation of the led male mile population of the country When hen the war was over th the people hart bar ha hab been b ln reduced to the tile most abject poverty and were on the verge ver e of starvation Worse orse still owing to the destruction of the th male population perfect anarchy pre prevailed veiled ailed and all the work formerly per performed performed formed by males fell on the fair sex They The rebuilt the houses which had been burned down tilled the fields and awl wove woe for themselves rough homespun clothing from the cotton grown In their own fields |