Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-03-29

Even the highest caste. Branmins
eat with their fingers. group sur
rounds big basin of boiled rice and
each makes a ball or cake of rice to
push it into his mouth, the superfu-
Gus dropping back into the basin to
serve to make part of the mouthful
for the next one of the group.
At railway stations all classes may
be observed jumping from the train
and squatting on the ground, with
knees above the chin and the palm of
the hand pressed against the mouth.
A railway water coolie passes along
and pours water from a leather bag
into their mouths. Almost every sta
ton has it's water coo,ie distributing
water freely.
Street sprinkling is done in CAL
cutta, Bombay and other cities by
coolies with water carried in a skin
(much like young sea lion in shape
their back and by tossing the nozzle
the street is sprinkled.
| Chewing the betel leaf is almost
universal among the natives.
Ploughing is done with their print
tive plows drawn by one or two bull
locks, very seldom by coolies. Two
natives attend to each pillow, one guild
ing and driving the bullocks. the other
holding the plough lightly with one
hand.
Large wild peacocks, cranes, par
rots, monkeys, deer, ETC., are very
numerous in country districts, and
roam through the fields. In cultivated
districts almost every acre has its
irrigating well, and a bed of grass 10
feet in air on poles, from which a
native guards and protects the ripen-
ing grain, etc. Bullocks are used to
hoist water from the wells
An Bmaciated Race.
The Hindus OF both sexes are very
thin and have a starved appearance.
Their limbs are merely bone and
sinew, as if wasted by years of illness.
These people present most pitiful
sight. 1t is impossible for foreigners
to distinguish the sex of the native
youths, voice and appearance being
so much the same Their chests are
well developed.
Rich natives are an infinitesimal
percentage OF the vast population, and
are usually recognized by their being
bloated due to "stuffing" The sikhs,
however. are of fine physique, tall and
muscular. They make splendid
soldiery, and their regiments are much
admired.
Natives will sit in trains, on store
steps or anywhere, reading IN loud,
sing-song tone, or suddenly bursting
forth in a chanting song, oblivious OF
the numbers of listeners. Prolonged
conversation is often carried on be-
tween two natives in opposite ends of
a car, who shout loudly, above the
babel of the others.
The natives are peaceful and their
crowds usually very quiet, but any ex-
citing cause will arouse fierce word
battles between a score or more, each
one in the crowd feeling free to add
his shouts to the noise. The loudest
usually seem to win the fight.
Passengers alighting from horse
cars in Bombay or Calcutta yell at
the driver and never notice the con-
ductor.
In crowded streets one native man
ages the rope lines. another works
the brake, third continuously blows
whistle or shouts, Others whip the
starved horses and half dozen cool
les run along to push the car until the
bony horses. are aroused back TO life.
Madras has the only electric cars
in India.
Rickshaws are Lot used in India, ex-
cept few at Simla, a mountain re-
sort and summer residence OF the
Viceroy.
of the railway travel Is solely done
by exceedingly crude bullock carts.
At chief cities and villages. along the
railway chiefly. there is established a
system of one-story buildings called
"Dawk Bungalows" one to a town, In
which a traveller may spread his bed
at rupee (32 cents) per night, and
feel reasonably safe from snakes, etc.
The tourist soon forms the habit OF
examining his boots for snakes each
morning.
Jugglers and snake charmers with
baskets and old bags full Of deadly
cobras and huge pythons, besiege your
hotel door. as also do dozens Of Or
iental peddlers, each with a pack OF
goods. They squat In groups
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