The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-07

in European society is expected to be present Tables are spread over the lawn. and are engaged in advance by ladies who sit behind them, receive visits and pour tea just as they would do in their own homes It is a very pleasant custom.
 Natives are not admitted to the EEro- pean clubs. There is no mingling of the races in society except in few isolated cases of wealthy families, who have adopted European customs and have been educated in Europe. While the same prejudice does not exist theoretically, there is actually social gulf as wide and as deep as that which lies between white and black families in Savannah or New Orleans. Oc- casionally there is a marriage between a European and native, but the results have not encouraged others to initiate the example. Such unions are not ap- proved by public sentiment in either race, and are not usually attended with happiness. Some of the Parsees, who are alwys excepted, and are treated as q distinct race and community, mingle with Europeans to certain degree, but even in their case the line is sharp lly drawn.
 The hour for meals in India are lit- tie unsual. Coffee or tea is served be- I tween and 8 o'clock in the morning in your room; breakfast in the dining room between 10 and II; tiffin or lunch between 1;30 and 3 o'clock, and dinner at S:30 in the eytning.
 Tho Yaa fix,a 1irf,-;a4 I1o,4,l.axv l.. ,,o4 so dirty nor so densely populated as in most other Indian cities The streets are wider and some of them will admit Iof carriage, although the crossing streets are nearly all too narrow The houses are from three to five stories in height, built of brick or stone, with Ioverhanging balconies and broad caves Sometimes the entire front and rear are lof lattice work the side walls being solid. Few of them are plastered, ceil- Iings are unknown and partitions, for the sake of promoting circulation, sell dom go more than half way to the top of room There is no glass used, and Ievery window has heavy blinds to pro- tect the interior from the hot air and the rays of the sun. While our taste
  many cases, experience has taught the people how to live through the hot lsummers with the greatest degree of comfort, and anyone who attempts to introduce innovations is apt to make mistakes.
 The fronts of many of the houses are handsomely carved and decorated, the columns and pillars and brackets which support the support the balconies, the railings the door frames, the caves and architraves, are often beautiful examp- les Of the carvers' skill, and the exter- for walls are usually painted in gay colors and fanciful designs. Within doors the houses look very bare to us, and contain few comforts.
 The lower floor of the house is al- ways used for shop, and different line Of business are classified and gathered in the same neighborhood. The food market, the grocery and pro- J vision dealers, the dealers in cotton good and other fabrics, the silk mer- chants. the shoe and leather men, the workers in copper and brass, the gold smiths, jewellers and dealers in precious 
 CT which is a great convenience to purchasers, and scattered among them are frequent cook-shops and eating places. which donot resemble our res taurants ill any way, but have a large patronage. A considerable portion of the population of Bombay, and the same is true of all, other Indian cities, depends upon these cook-shops for food as measure Of economy and convent enee. People can send out for dinner, lunch, or breakfast at any hour and have it served by their own servants without being troubled to keep up a kitchen or buy fuel.
 There are said to be 5000 dealers in jewelry and precious stones in the City Of Bombay and they all seem to be do- ing a fourishing business, chiefly with the natives, who are very fond of dis play and invest their money in precious ' stones and personal adornments of gold and silver. which are safer and give more satisfaction than banks.
 You can see specimens of every race and nation in the native city, nearly always in their own distinctive cos tunes. and they are the source of nev. Ier-endng interest = Arabs, Persians Afghans, Rajpoots, Parsees, Chinese lJapanese, Malays. Lascare, negroes lfrom Zanzibar, Madagascar and the ECongo, Abyssinians, Nubians, Sikhs ;Thibetans, Burmese, Singalese, Siamest and Bengalis mingle with Jews, Greek. and Europeans on common terms, and lunlil1e the population of most eastern cities, the people of Bombay alway' seem to be busy.--W. E. Curtis il Chicago RecordHerald.