Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-03
4 Sketch of Bombay - Street
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their teams afeId, could see how the
Hindoos manage their oxen. Think of
pair of lean, lapk kline, with horns
eighteen inches long sticking straight up
into the air, with a great hump on the
back-over the shoulders a straight
piece of round wood limb of a tree
six inches in diameter for yoke, four
pins, each about ten inches long, driven
through the yoke to keep it in place on
the necks of the animals ropes instead
of bows-n0t dashed to the horns, but
tied around the necks a cord in the
nostril of each OK, with reins attached ;
two wheeled cart, with four seats, the
driver sitting in. front bareheaded, bare
armed, barefooted, barelegged, barely
dressed in every respect-One bit Of rag
about the loins three Hindoo passen-
GERS. as bare of clothing as himself, the
oxen upon the trot or canter, the dusky
Jehu handling the reins adroitly, turn
ing eha-P ~ernArs picking his way
through the crowd as easily and quickly
as the hackmen of your city can thread
their course on Washington street.
The peninsula is wider here, and we
soon reach the suburbs, where the Eu-
ropeans and Pmsees and rich native
merchants live. We find broad avenues,
as smooth as the sea beach, shaded by
tropical trees in great variety. We pass
stately palaces surrounded by spacious
gardens We look up the long grayeled
walks and behold flowers of every hue
exoties of the temperate zone mingled
with the fora of the tropics-Oleandas,
magnolias, laburnUms, acacias, oranges
and lemons, honeysuckle, verbenas,
roses, azalias, petunias, tiger-lilies-the
entire fora of our greenhouses bloom
ing in the open air vines and creepeFs,
clematis and jessamine climbing the
walls, Overrunning summer houses trees
wholly unlike those which we are accus-
toned to see-no elms, no naples, or
giant oaks, but the tall and slender palm,
the palmyra, the cocoanut, with their
( green plumes gracefully moving in the
breezes, the banyan, forest in itself,
sending It's new trunks down into the
/ generous earth and spreading its branches
far and wide, thickly throwing out its
leaves, making a delightful shade the
India rubber tree, the teak, the fg and
mango. The Parsee, as far as in him
/ lies, makes his earthly home Para
disc. His palace is large and lofty. He
has wide halls, deap verandahs and pas
/ sage ways running in all directions, so
that, let the breeze come from the sea or
the mountains, from the north or the
south, it may sweep through his balls
I The Parsees are the Yankees Of the
East-the business men who know the
knack eff making money. In another
letter l shall have something more TO say
about them. They surpass the English
in the elegance of their residences.
Getting beyond the palaces and villas We
come to the plains, reaching northward
and eastward, bounded in the dim dis
lance by mountains.
la approaching the city from the sea,
or looking down upon it from the hotel,
We see few spires, towers and domes of
churches, temples or public buildings,
but a long reach Of tiled roofs, wide
streets, open lots, patches Of green foil
age. with but few objects TO attract spe-
cial attention.
took an early walk before the sun
was up this morning, and saw some
queer scenes in the streets. The people
were Just rising-hundreds of them
from the ground in front of their shops
men, women and children, where they
had made their beds for the night.
Some were still asleep, and l came near
disturbing the slumbers Of young man
as | turned a corner, by falling headlong
over him. 1t does not take Hindoo
long to dress, especially when his only
garment is a strip Of cloth around the
loins The children, like those in many
American homes, were up bright and
early making mud pies. l noticed that
they we're not dressed quite well enough |
to make their appearance at Sunday |
school. In country where the father
and mother make a strip of cloth, of the |
size of dish-wiper, serve for full dress,
it Is not in the nature of things that
their offspring should appear in coat,
jacket or pants, or erinOline, and trails |
ike those which some young ladies of /
Boston use for sweeping the streets
The costumes of the maidens of the
West-especially the ball room dresses
have longer skirts, and perhaps not quite
so low in the neck as the costumes worn
by their sisters of India but in the
matter of jewelry the dark-featured
ladies' of this country can beat them all
hollow.
Take look at this black haired crea-
ture, fondling a little ebony imp, the
likeness Of herself, in a doorway as We
pass, a gold chain about her neck, gold
charms Of the size of ten dollar gold
piece dangling from it, three silver brace
lets on each wrist, an armlet of silver on
each arm above the elbow, so many rings
on her fingers that you cannot count
them, anklets huge and massive upon
each ankle, toiets Of the same metal on
her great toes six gold rings with little
bells attached in each ear, gold brooch
with long pin thrust through the left
nOstril! Can any fair maiden in Amer
lea exhibit so much jewelry? See how
the fond mother has lavished her for
tune, regardless Of expense, upon the
darling in her arms-rings OF its toes !
on its ankles, silver chain clasping each
Of its chubby legs above the knee, a
larger chain of elaborate workmanship
girding the loins, with charms and little
silver bells attached, rings on its fingers,
bracelets on its arms, another chain
clasping the neck, rings in its ears,
jewel in its nose Quite display for a
young girl who has not got round to her &
first birthday anniversary.
The question is solved as to what be-
comes of the silver. India absorbs it. {
A love of jewelry is characteristics of I
men as well as women in India. The t
men wear bracelets and noserings. The
population of the country is nearly one .
hundred and ninety millions, and it may
be set down that each individual has
upon an average four or FIVE rings,
bracelets or charms, usually of silver
There are at least ten hundred million
among the natives, but no esti-
mate can be made of their value,
all ages India has swallowed