The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-08-17

room to the other. 1t was horrible sight,
and as she took the metal cups from her
eyes they filed with water, and she almost
sank to the floor told her the trick was
disgusting, and that she ought never to try
it again. Still, for this and the rest of the
show, these girls were well satisfied with
two rupees, or about 30 cents.
WOMEN
These women jugglers came from Jey-
pore. and they are a fair type of the girls
of Western India | am surprised at the
variety of races you find here in India, and
there are more people in Hindostan than
in all Europe. The costumes of the women
differ in different provinces, and in the
Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal,
where the great prisons of the English are
located. the native women are clad in fig
leaves and hustle of wicker. These people
have only names for common gender, which
are. applicable to either sex, aud they use
noise ike crying to express friendship or
ioy Some of the hill tribes of India look
very much ike negroes, and there are IN
India tribes which are little more than saw
ages. In Central India only seventeen
years ago there was tribe of about 10000
whose Ncmen wore no clothes The sole
covering of the females consisted of few
beads around the waist, with bunch of
leaves tied before and behind, and they
were clothed finally by orderof the English
Government An English officer gave
strips of cotton to the women and they put
them on. Since then many of them have
gone back to their beads and leaves. On
the slopes Of the Himalayas there are many
curious tribes. Some Of the tribes nea-
Darieeling reckon journey by the number
Of auids of tobacco which thev chew upon
the way, and some Of the most gorgeous
specimens of Hindoo jewelry | have seen
saw on the women Of the Himalayas. |
remember one mountain pink who had hfty
rupees strung around her neck, and whose
lis,bs we're loaded down with silver. She
had gold plates twice che diameter Of
silver dollar upon her ears, and her mouth
was covered by fat gold nose ring, Some
Of these Himalaya tribes have one wife TO
four men, and polyandry is common.
Here at Bombay are the preitiest women
Of India They are the Par-ees With
delicate olive brown skins, they are tall
and well shaped, have beautiful eyes, aud
fine. intellectual faces. They dress in silks
Of the most delicate enlors, and the dress
seems to consist Of one large piece Of silk,
which i wound around the waist and then
carried up over the body and she top OF
the head, 50 that the face looks out, and
the whole hangs in a beautiful drapery.
Many It them. note. have silk stockings
and slippers 10 match ,he color of their
dresses. aud they are the brightest and
prrstieSs women have ever seen. The
Parsees arc sun wurshippers- There are
only about 10000 Of them IN India, aud
80 900 OF these arr here IN Bombay The
mea dress in loug. preacher.like clothes OF
black, with hats shaped like coal scuiilcs,
and they are very hue looking. Their
dr,-S-, when net in business, Is often Of the
whitssg Of linea coats aud shirts They
are the best basinsss men IN the world.
They own millions Of dollars worth Of pro-
pcrty hsrc in Bombay, and are largely ia-
terss,ed in the trade Of ladia They are
more akin 60 the Christians than the HIN
dosss in their methods Of living. They be-
lievc in spending their money, dwell in
good houses. and drive about IN find car
riascs They are charitable As well a
rich, and some oF the finest public buildings
nj Bomtay have been buil, by them.
They are of Persian dssocnt and have
temples in which burns the sacred FIRE of
Z0roasser.
Speaking Of Bombay and Of business, one
Of the most prosperous institutions Of the
city is It's Iramway managed by two AmerI-
cans, who arr. | think. from Boston.
Their names are Clark and kittTidge, and
they have an excellent property, Bombay
Is now over a million in population, and
these street ears--ou the same plan as those
Of .Amcrica-are driven by tarbanned Mo-
hammedans and the fares are collected by
dark.skinnci Hindoos. All races ride on
them, aud the naiive2 Of India patronize
them by the thousand daily. Looking at
them, it Is a wonder TO me that some means
of cheap lOcomotion has not been iuIrodue.
cd into the cities Of China. IL IS true that
many Of the streets Of some cities are too
narrow for street-cars. but those Of Peking
are wide and the street travel Is the worst
in the world
At all the railroad stations there are
news-stands, aud the most popular-selling
books furnished by these are cheap, pirated
editions OF American writers. | bought
Lew Wallace's Fair God yesterday for
Is cents, and Ben Hur' is sold for the
same price. There is an English edition
Of AIMS Katharine Green's "LeavenwOrth
Cas-" at II cents a copy, and the works Of
Uncle Remus are for sale in paper covers.
All of Bret Hartes books are pirated by
the English, and Mark Twains books are
sold here for song. You can get Long
fellows poems for dime, aud Emerson 5
ESSAYS are sold in cloth at 20 cents a copy.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's novels are also
sold ut one fifteenth the price they bring IN
America. and the lack of an international
copyright law works against the profits of
our writers as it does against those of the
English.
PREJUDICE.