Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-23

After tho structure was completed
| shah Jehan set aside the revenue oi
80 Villages to keep II I'm order. and he
covered his wife's sarcophagus with
pall embroidered with pearls The
records say that he mourned for This
woman TO the day OF his death and
that she had IA great influence upon
his life. She was his companion and
friend He consulted with her on state
affairs and trusted her with the royal
seal and took her along with him on
one of his military campaigns. She
was noted for her beauty and charity
and II is said that she was religions
and a special patron OF INDECENT or
phans. Upon her tomb are now en-
graved the 80 names of God from the
Koran and various Mohammedan toxts.
She Is perhaps best remembered of all
Mohammedan women, and of all Ter
sex she has the greatest monument.
A famous traveller who passed through
here In writing OF the Tai said:
II asked my wife at the close of our
visit what she thought of the build
Ing. 4 cannot said she tell YOU
what ! think. for I know not how TO
criticize such a building, but | can
tell you how I feel. would die to
morrow TO have such another over
me-"
THE PALACES OF THE MoGULs
During my stay here and at Delhi
/ have gone through many Of the Tal-
aces OF these Mogul emperors Of four
and five hundred years ago. Their
ruins are scattered throughout this
part OF India and some OF the build
ings are still almost in perfect copdi-
ton. Others are battered and falling
10 pieces. The great fort mere at As-
ra, built by them. has walls 20 feet
has massive sandstone gates inlaid
with marble and richly carved. Its
interior has an area equal h a good
sized farm and its walls inclose the
palaces. which surpassed in their
splendor the descriptions Of Moore
and Byron Of the -;lOries OF the orient
Many of YOU have visited the jeweled
chamber in the palace OF Frederick the
Great at Potsdam. outside Berlin. Il
was erected by that monarch when his
treasury was low with tho idea that his
extravaganza might create the impress
sion that he had money to burn. one
room of the palace was walled with
jewels and precious stones, but II was
only a pinchbeck apartment in compar-
ison with some OF the rooms in this fort
at Delhi.
The palace here has interior walls
which were a lacework of marble, pill
lars inlaid with marble mosaic and
room after room containing marble
screens cut out like lace. but the
meshes of which were stone three inch
es through, The columns OF some of the
rooms we're set with costly jewels There
were tables inlaid with precious stones,
costly hang7hgs and rugs worth n
kings ransom. The best part OF the
palace was built by shah Jehan and
one OF its most beautiful divisions
was the harem where he kept his 80
wives. | walked through 1t today. At
one place the yelled ladies looked out
through marble lacework into court
at the wares which the jewelers.
brought there for sale. In another
IL marble balcony where the shah
and Muntax used to FISH I'm an artificial
lake lying below, and in a third Is a
hall grander than any audience hall OF
the world There were bathrooms lined
with mirrors and rose water fountains
and in one court tho floor had been
divided up into a chess board upon
which the sultan played, using pretty
slave girls as pawns and directing the
by his voice.
During my visit went through some
OF the bedrooms occupied in the past
by the ladies OF the harem and my
guide showed me their treasure boxes.
In the marble lodges OF the windows
circular holes we're cut just big enough