Show LORI COMA Coren Corea the country about which schlep the tho lie Imbroglio turns turn IH is a peninsula containing about ns ne much area ns tie Brent nil mill n a population lation estimated nt lit about ten million The prominent physical r re of the country Is s n m mountain chain constituting lag ing ng Ita Its backbone with numerous spurs thrown out In III every direction timid and en el enclosing closing a number of ot pleasant and for tr the tl valleys Of at the Iho people travelers generally speak with stint contempt They resemble rr thin the Japanese more than tho the Chinese but they lire arc toiler toller and nn stronger They hey aro are said to 10 be neither IndustrIous nor 1101 cleanly although they dress Itress In white cotton clothes and spend u n great grent deed deal of energy In ht keeping theus white Ono One traveler In hr that country says The Tho people nrc nl no so busy bu keeping their clothes snowy white that their mines must mint needs need RO go turning their forests to rests tin un foiled felled rl their fields There Thero Is la lano no land lam on Oil earth perhaps where the tho women woman work nork harder 1111 the tile especial e purpose o In III Io of keeping 1 the tho men looking Although soap HOAP Is not used the time results of ot laundry In nail and lye lyo are wonderful When tho the be he beBin glum gin t II to emigrate to 10 our country cull II t they any drive tho the Chinese o out of ot business rile Tho women boll the till clothes clothen three times clean them then with lye wash them In him running wider water and 1 II then after drying begin that process which rc IC thrill thom to toll during the loci hours of ot the tho night The characteristic which ono one hears while traveling through the tie streets of ot a II Co eo 0 town IB Is the tho denting of ot the time clothes on Oil a IL lint flat gourd board with n wooden woollen ruler rule every traveler to 10 the country mentions title sound which kept him hire sleep lea 1111 dining the few tel nights of oe ills lih hl slay In ha tho the kingdom Concerning time the III of oe tho the country Colonel n a visit to the tho capital made his hla hI ott own mi estimate Ho Ito wild said In part Our maintenance once of JC a 1 legation In necessitate In ht the time matter of oC co cu comity unity mity the tho keeping of ot a I Corcan Corean minister tend n II of ot well sell paid Idlers In Wash InKton City elt find and Cores Corea IH Is too 1011 poor pOOl to tn bo tm subjected to such extravagance It Ill IH Is fall to lu nay Iny that lint not since tho the begin of our diplomatic relations with area has there thero been heen a 1 time line when u a 1 limn on n II salary lly of at MO O a n year could not 1101 have attended to nil the tho teal real bush biml liens hers that lint the Iho Lund Lord l of uC the nun hue has had within Iho tho of ot our err Certainly Corell Is III not en entitled en entitled titled to time tho consideration wo we give 1110 her tier herand and the probabilities of her he rise to Im Importance with both Loth Japan and IIII preparing to read her mire limited In Indeed indeed deed AH As 8 n matter mattl of 01 fact tact the tha whole system of Cocoa Corea IM is and ami mu hums been u it 1 farce The Tho talk about a II minister of or Justice n minister of ot education n II minister of communications etc U about as ns droll IH its II If It the Ihs Crow ro Indiana of ot Montana should begin setting netting up UI lord chamber elms timber lit lord chancellors chum and hops on 1111 big hll Thin hIA estimate of the Importance of ot the country IH is corroborated by h the tho leS cn fi of ot a 1 former Corell Corean n minister In Washington The rh queen quern hail been beell none mill murdered deed dered anti and her hr amiable representative hero here took tonic occasion to 10 say an that her death I was waa nn an advantage to III the th country countr obtained money he lie said lah unfairly old and 1111 by II selling govern government anent ment and titles And the th sale alo was WIP It compulsory for tor or th the tho poi ier to tl whom an nn 11 or 01 a n title was wan offered could not lot refuse to buy It II tutu tin less legs he was wan willing to bo ho Imprisoned tar for contempt Wo are oro further Inform Informed ed by b tho the name authority that thai tho the joyal 11 al lady Indy had luul n it force of ot private detectives dot the country and ami If they heard hen Ill sty nn word of or reproach the tho queen for lies her operations ol nl tI II tho tits people it them well store put iut In ht and killed there Inure without lIholt their friends kim It site hc knew situ Kho bud Inne no so smelt much wrong Iho tho mm min minister ales ister suld said she was always of lit n Mi m It Jt was wim her customs custom to 10 sit lilt up tip nil all night said thu ehu never went to tobed tobed bed bOIl until live UI or II six U In III tho the morning Mho Hilo had Imd several bedrooms so su that no on onE one know shin HUP slept ex e CM rcpt her hP own Intimates Under Yoder h her lIel r bod bcd chamber chomber there was wan a 1 trap door doer with whit leading down to n room be he below lust low where ahu kept on om guard 40 10 let tooted d couriers with Ith n always In III HH so that slit she could lly II h nt at n moments notice This was wa yeas yearn ego ago but changes chon o ore tow few to and far Car between In III those conser conservative con votive not to say l coun loun countries trios tries Soma Sauna civilizing Influence from Crom 1 la Is II needed hi III Corer Cor u And as the world no noes warn and conflicts seem ream to tobe he be leveling loveling forces that lint pr wro this the w Ill y for tIJI em ho the Ihl Structures of ot n The flue of ot either vII her Japan or may limy be a n factor of oC advancement In III the history hI tol of ot Corca Cores |