The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-18
QUIETING THE BABY.
Soothing Children by Means of Fall
ing Water.

ing Water.
New York. March ia recent traveller
through Northern India tells an interest
ing incident in connection with visit
which she made to one of the rude little
home in Kashmire, where the world re
nowned India shawls are made. 1t
CHANGED to be very hot day, even for In
dia, and when our traveller found herself
being conducted through a dusty, dingy
narrow street, towards a squalid little
house. she almost regretted her inherent
thirst for knowledge. However, upon en-
tering a little room, she found ten or
dozen men sitting on the floor, patiently
weaving the richly hued threads in and
out, and evidently happy; since, notwith-
standing the heat and general dinginess,
they were chanting together some pleas
ing little melody.
While watching them at their careful
painstaking labor she noticed that each
man had little slip of paper pinned to
his work, which she naturally took to be
the design of his particular shawl. Upon
closer investigation, however, she found
that they all contained musical notes.
Fancy her surprise to learn that it really
was the pattern expressed in musical no
tatIon, and represented, in point of fact,
the tune the men were then singing. She
further learned that they had discovered
sound whereby they determined the colors
they were to use by the way they har-
monized in musician inharmonious blend
ing of tones always signifying inharmoni-
Gus coloring.
THE attitude of native Indians towards
the Queen of England" continued the
same traveller, ''is really very curious and
interesting, and is entirely detached from
any feeling which they may have for or
against the English government. They
look upon the queen as a saint, fire.
quently worshippng her as such. They
consider that she has gone through all the
earthly incarnationS necessary to the
highest development, and that she has
now reached a degree of sainthood which
entities her to the choicest blessing of
of Nirvana. The reason for this worship
full attitude does not rest upon her posi-
ton, power, talents or general character,
but more than anything else upon her
long period of widowhood which to the
Indian woman is a state of the highest
dignity and sanctity."
but supposing they were to see her
now" asked a listener "just as she is
short, stout, old and unbeauufu
wouldn't that be something of a sho k?
Could they still surround her with the
halo of sainthood?"
"Oh, that wouldn't make the least differ
ence" replied the cosmOpote. the
Hindu only sees or fancies he sees the
soul. Those Orientals possess a degree o.
spiritual refinement to which we of the
West are strangers; spiritual culture is
also far more democratized among them
than among us. once having in their i'm
agination elevated the Queen to the rank
of sainthood. no physical limitations w7ul !
have the slightest effect upon their adorl-
ton"
another remarkable thing l observed
is that on the slopes of the Hmalayas the
native women have a most curious plan of
disposing of their babies and Ike ping
them quiet while they are engaged at
work in the fields during the greater part
of the day. Before the mothers SCI out
to work in the morning they wrap their
babies i'm swaddling bands, leaving no hing
hut their little faces exposed. Then the
babies are taken and laid under a ledge of
rock from which water is falling, and by
means Of a bamboo the water is made to
drip gently on each baby's forehead The
effect of the dripping water is most sooth-
ing, and soon the little ones are all asleep
and remain quite motionless until taken
up by their mothers on their return from
their work. when they are carried off to be
unwrapped dried and fed. Very few of
the little ones treated on this hydropathic
system seem to be any the worse for it.
and as a rule they grow up strong and
healthy men and women"