Daily Yellowstone journal., 1884-06-19
A BAZAAR IN INDIA.
The DaRElisg Ivory % the Natives.
Puslir Tstiets --- ~ ails or the
Gn~fea.

The DaaslisE Ivory % the Natives.
Public Tsiiets 80 ~ ails Of the
Castles.
Belgravia
The immense number OF stalls for
sweetmests is among the most striking
peculiarities of o native bazaar. The
consumption thereof must be tremen'
dous, to say nothing Of the quantity oil
sugar-cane which old and young seem
to munich whenever they are not chew
ing betel. And yet the beauty OF their
teeth is by no means In accordance
with our theories of the disadvantage
of such dainties. Every mouth alike
displays rows of such dazzling ivory as
put most Europeans to shame-the
latter too often reminding us of that
Northumbrian farmer who went to
candy Newcastle" to invest in set OF
false teeth, and returned with COM
plete set of lockwood, which as hs
Justly remarked, were only half the
price, land mair the color of the auld
anes." Perhaps RESPECTFUL insolenct
could hardly have devised more cut.
ting remark than that OF a beaver, who,
when his master had thoroughly los,
his temper. observed with low salaam
and quite in accordance with his duty
Is valet, that he thought master had
forgotten to brush his teeth that morn.
ing!
As TO the natives, they are forever
brushing theirs, or rather polishing
them, with a soft, Hat stick about the
width Of your finger. As you pass
through native town in the early
morning it seems a. if the whole popu.
lation had turned ont of their houses 10
perform this part OF their toilet in
public, and such an amount of scraping
and polishing goes on that you marvel
how any enamel is left. Nor is this the
only part of the morning adornment
that occurs in public The bath is
either at the river or Che open tank, but
promiscuous washing goes on in the
street at all hours and seasons, as does
also the work Of the barber. who reduces
the fine. silky, Hack hair to a very
small top-knot. This is the only mo-
ment when the lower caste Hindus are
ever seen barrel eaded.
III, therefore, You care to mark the
strange diversity of cranial develop
ment between the elongated high skulls
Of the upper castles and the low type
common to tue serfs, or low castles lin
other words. the descendants of the
Aryans and those of the aboriginal
races of India. the BARRIERS hour will
give you ample opportunity for study.
In short, but for this little celestial top
knot, Won might imagine, as you glance
at q group of those shining skulls.
that you had got into a colony of the
hairless men of Australia: that curious
tribe of aborigines known a. the Bald
Men OF the Flinders and Albert rivers,
who literally are destitute of any YES.
sige of hair, and 60 through life from
their birth to their grave as bald As a
billiard ball. Certainly mother ma.
ture would have saved the Hindus q
great deal of trouble IL she had created
them with the same deficiency. Next
comes the painting of those curious
lines and marks ON the face denoting
caste and otherwise symbolical. Some
have three white lines. others perpen-
diculsr stripes: a small horizontal line
ON the forehead denotes having bsthed:
in fact, being ready for society. Other
marks show at whose shrine worship
has been offered: the trident, for in
stance. denoting the worshipers of Siss.