The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-03

AMONG THE HINDOOS
A CHICAGO NAN VISITS AN OLD
TEMPLE or THE PAGANS-

TEMPLE or THE PAGANs.
Fined for Walking Through the Eahd1na
with AT. Shoes on-Interestins Notes
of RambIcs Through Strange co"h
try-LaushesIe accidents.
Blatchford Ksvanagh writes FROM Del
hi. India, to The Chicago Post about
visit among the Hindoos as follows: J
have been 10 Ahmed2bad. 1t Is small
place and almost filed with mosques and
temnIes. The mosques belong TO the
Mehamredans and the temples to the
Hindoos. Most of the mosques are exqui'
sitely carved. In one place there Is
window of marble with tree pierced
ont of it. The carving IS wonderful.
These Hindoos are something ike the
Chinese. They viii spend years Of their
life in carving some little thing. II.
beautiful when it's done, but an Amer.
lean wouldn't spend as many days on II
as they do years.
In one Hindoo temple they let Us walk
all through With cur shoes on, and when
we got through and came outside we
found a great crowd of natives making
an uproar. Then we found out what
was the matter We had defled the
temple BY going in with our shoes on.
Then a man came up and said IN En-
glish that the temple would have to be
all washed out before they could wor-
ship in it again, and we had TO pay three
rupees-about $l.17 in our money-te
have the place washed, so we are not go
ing into any more temples with oiE
shoes on.
THE SACRED LAKE.
We stopped at Ajmere, small town,
for about twenty-four hours. There are
some mosques and temples there, bui
they are not so pretty as those at All
medabad. Ajmere is very picturesque
on a sunshiny day, but it rained almost
all the afternoon very hard. IL stopped
for about two hours and we drove out te
Pushkar lake This is about seven miles
from the city, through pass. The as
cent is about 200 feet. This is the place
where the princes come to worship.
They each build small palace TO stay
in while they are here. The lake Is Z
sacred one, and the Hindoos believe any
one bathing in it viii go to heaven
wrote you about how the Hindoos
burn their dead. Well, took photo
graph with my little camera Of the caste
of men who take care of dead bodies
It was Just after they had burned one
up, and got them to all stand IN row
with their white aprons on. They dldn
seem to mind it a bit. and stood up as i
they were quite used TO it.
We left Ajmere about o'clock in the
morning and arrived here ABOUT in tbs
evening. The sleeping cars are not th'
same as ours. One car will acconmo
date eight people. The cars are divided
into two compartments, each compart
Inent accommodating four persons. w
do not undress, but just take OFF on
coats and lie down for little while
The cars are a good deal like those II
England. Our servant forgot TO WAKE
Us up until we got into the station.
The train only staid there seven min
utes. and YOU ought TO have seen u
scramble out OF the car. Mr.. Getty ant
have couple of suits made alike, anC
in the scrilnmage he got my coat on, an
he looked too funny for anything.
rushed out of the Car IN my shirt sleeves
with my helmet on, and he was bare
headed. guess the natives thought W
were crazy. We got TO the bungalov
all right and slept until o'clock. W
are going TO see palace. We go hal
of the way on elephants.
DOG STOLE THE SACRED CAKE.
tried to give you description in on
of my former letters of our lazy life o
shipboard coming from Suez 70 Bombay
There wasn't much to do but lie aroun
and read books and try TO keep cool, an
have often thought of you people
Chicago going around with heavy over
coats and furs, while we were fannin
ourselves.
| saw funny sight at Bombay
poor mans wedding. The man and n
bride paraded around the streets,
with mis- sword over his shoulder. 3
was bowlegged, she knSckkneed, an
what do yo1 think their ages were: 4
was 81 years old and his bride only
years, They were tied together by the
garments. They had a ceremony IL Il
street that was very queer. They place
on stone some peas and pancake an
then bowed before it.
Just as they got through dog stuc
his head through the crowd and made
rush for 1t Such commotion you new
saw. OF course he got between q
groom's legs, and altogether broke I
the ceremony. He got the holy pancak
just the same. and then the groom dldn
seem 10 care for 1t any more. | laughe
until | ached all over.
You viii remember I wrote you aboJ
the Hin0oo musician IN Bonn cav, vi
played on four different instruments
one rime-two in his nose and two IL q
mouth. took . picture OF him one Ga
as he was squatting on the ground pla
ing away with all four Instruments 2
ing at once. The funniest thing ab0
Bombay and all India is that they on
have one mail day a weak. which
Saturday. and when the mail closes {
the shops close also, and the people ha'
half holiday. While we were IN Boz
bay they had mail day, aud everywhe
we went we were informed that II W
English mail day"