Douglas Island news., 1910-11-23
AROUND THE WORLD Dr. Simpsons Story of His Visits to the Countries of the
 Old World
IAIPUR
QContinued from last week)


 spent the day on the train between Delhi and Jaipur. Country became more barren as went on and toward evening little foothills began to show up- Jaipur is where the desert meets the foothills. 1t is not owned by the British, but by the mahrajah of Jey- pore. He is fifty years of age and is quite blade He has five wives, but no children. q do not know whether he has too many or too few wives.) He has 1000 servants end pays them on an average of little less than S2a month. He has a great many elephants. went to see his palace; was in the treasury, where a lot of men sat on the floor counting money. 1 was at the little lake where the crocodiles and big tur- ties are. It seems to me that they are dangerous pets to have in one's yard. When the keeper began calling nothing was in sight; then ripples appeared here and there on the lake, some of them hundreds of yards away, and black spots showed up in many places. As they approached they turned out to be turtles and croeodles hurrying to be fed like lot of chickens.
 The palace is beautiful, but inclined to be gaudy. There is large observa- tory there, built by Jai Serigh, who founded Jaipur about two hundred years ago. When the mahraja went to the late king's coronation he took pre- cautions that he would not be contam- mated by unbelievers, i. @. those who are not Hindoos. He chartered ship, took tradesmen of kinds, six months food, water and everything he was likely to need. He made arrangements to have tank of Ganges water shipped to him to England every week. The chests he took with him would i'll PHI. Fox's store.
 daipur is pink city, i. @. rose pink or eudbea color. The streets are wide and many of the houses have all kinds of frescoes, many of them very funny. Everything is gaudy and dyes are used ad lib. and ad museum. Clothes freshly dyed are hung up everywhere and the gutbers are running with blue, red, green or yellow water. The palace of the winds is a seven story, pink, grotesque, with apparently thousands of windows. The hotels are very good, but everybody gratis. George Rice said that Juneau was the only place he ever saw where people grafted, but he was mistaken. Population of Jaipur about 100000. There is splendid l5Q bed hospital there right up to date and the museum is wonder. At the zoo l saw one thing that struck me. In a cage was tiger, the largest and fercest | ever saw. He was eating quarter of goat and now and then when something would disturb him he would fly at the hars and snarl as if he would tear everything to pieces. In the cage with him was white cat, which beside him did not look any larger than white bean. When the tiger was acting like this the cat was stretching itself and yawning. When the tiger began eating the cat took hold of the other end of the meat and pulled. They played to gether and purred. The two would walk around and their movements were exactly alike. Each had that long, stealthy movement and each seemed to have paws of velvet. remember little Biiou Fernandez playing Falstaf's page in the aMerry Wives of Windsor"