The dutiful daughter-in-law.

Right now I'm working on a study quantifying the economic costs of poor sanitation. Don't ask what it means, I don't know what I'm doing. A friend call it, 'studi WC'. That's actually an apt term for it. But honestly though, yesterday I found a piece of gem that makes everything, and I mean everything, make perfect sense. It is a quote found a dissertation about water management by farm households in Vietnam, submitted for PhD in Germany.

The Good Daughter-in-law
By Hsieh Chang-yi

"Early in the morning, the magpies cry,
The newly-wed daughter-in-law is carrying excreta on a pole
Liquid from the excreta stains her new trousers
The hot sweat soaks into her embroidered jacket
The commune members praise her and mother is pleased
All tell her she has got a good daughter-in-law."
(MCGARRY A. STAINFORTH 1978: 4)