The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-28
English Influence Abroad.

While the English community of
Lahore, as elsewhere in India, elected to
live away from the native city, and
while the original nucleus of this set
Element was planted, for sanitary and
other reasons, far from the city walls, it
has gradually filed up the intervening
space, SO that the usual neutral ground
or no mans land has ceased to exist.
In the crowded suburb of Anarkali,
which we must traverse in order to
reach the postoffice, the bazaars. extend
out from the city gate to the European
civil Lies. This quarter, where the
architecture is chiefly Indian, with THAT
yellow and succeed suggestion of Portu-
guese influence which still survives, is
given over for the most part to Europe
Shops" kept by English speaking ma
tives. Eurasians, and occasional Parsees.
These shopkeepers are mainly clad in
what might be called an adaptation Of
the European dress of Indian needs, and
in their shops and warehouses everything
in the way of clothing, household arti-
Giles, jewelry, furniture-ne and second
hand-as well as provisions, wines, and
other luxuries, can he purchased usually
at rates as cheap as in England, for
there is close competition. AS the gov
eminent has not yet resorted to tobacco
monopoly (Which is a dangerous expert
ment in Eastern countries.) almost every
variety of tobacco ana cigarettes may be
found in the show cases of these shops
Vanity Fair, Old Judge, as we'll as Egyp-
tian, and the KAISER and Hind cigarette
of Malta. The cheapest. and naturally
most popular, cigars are the Trichinopoly'
and Manila cheroots, which are good
and remarkab bly, low in price. In every
little medical hall" kept by an angli-
czed native there is always stock of
the standard remedies, such as quinine,
phenacitine, and anti-pyrrhine, put up
in convenient shape, and often these
packages bear the label of some we'll
known American firm. Fortunately for
the health OF a community which sup
poses itself to be possessed of common
sense, the sale of these simple remedies
is not, as in Austria and some other
Continental nations, restricted by law,
and physicians order is not necessary
for the purchase of a box # .quinine
pills. ~
: Few English names appear on the
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and "Gheap Shop" are considered by
the native merchant to be of lucky omen
and Europe Shop" still holds it OWE in
popularity. "Budruddin Hassann sug-
gests by association of ideas the trade Of
the pastry cook, and in front of one
shop, to which the exact location is not
not quite clear to the writer's memory,
lsh, which leads thus: All kinds of
Syrup, Jelly, Pickles and Medicine Sell
Ing Company" Over these shops and
lower stories there are often balconies
OF carved wood, such as one sees within
the walls, and they are usually occupied
by young ladies of the nautch dancing
sisterhood, who are keenly alive to the
value of scarlet or yellow blossom in
their blue black hair, but unfortunately
some of them do not realize that the
effect of rice powder on a transparent
brown skin is rather disastrous, The
principal street from the city gate, where
great trees and dusty thickets occupy
the space once filed by the moat, and
here there is crowd of small traders,
snake charmers, fakirs, and showmen
with tents and booths throughout its
entire length to the opposite end, where
it immerges into the European quarter,
gives one the impression of a sort of ORR
entail Bowery. Beyond this there is
more space and greensward, enclosed by
low rails and the principal postoffice,
with empty mail vans standing outside.
Every morning, before the early mail is
distri buted to the public. a trooper in
scarlet uniform gallops from the post
office to the Government House with the
mail bag for the inmates In this vicin-
ity are situated most of the principal
municipal and government buildings,
the Mayo School of Arts in connection
with the new Art Museum-and few
similar institutions in any country
can boast of finer installation, or one
more in keeping with it's main object,
the encouragement of Indian industrial
art. Here are the churches--one of
which was once the tomb of Anarkali.