The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

Mr and Mrs. W. B. Reynolds, who art
 enjoying tour of the world, have hao
 many exceptional experiences. which MT
 Reynolds. through The Age Herald, com
 municated to his friends over the state
 in letters delightfully."- phrased. He has
 written in the past several months from
 Cairo, from Lucknow. from Benares and
 from the Island of Ceylon. He is in India
 and yesterday letter written April g.
 reached Birmingham telling of some en-
 saging experiences through which he and
 the members of his party have just | passed. His letter follows:
 few days ago I sa0 a Mohammedan n
 taking trip on the train with five of his
 wives I was sitting in the station wait
 ing for train when two men came in
 carrying what looked like a covered cage suspended on pole. it was what they
 call 'panequen." They put their bur
 den down on the floor and in a few min
 utes another came, then three more There were with me several Americans
 and we at once decided a Mohammedan
 ol rank was giving an outing to some of
 ms wives. We sauntered around and soon peep hole in one of the covered cages opened and pair of shining black eyes
 looked cautiously out; then another fol-
 lowed suit: then another. The more Air. tatious of the Americans got busy and if
 not for the heavy tramp of the husband
 which the wives recognized there is no telling what might have happened But the moment they heard that familiar step the peep holes closed: the once bo,-S Americans became timid and retired from the field. We thought then we would surely get sight of the beauties we sup posed they were when they went on the train. At the risk Of getting left We waited. When the train came in tba husband had reserved a special compart meht Tor his happy family. The pane quens were carried, one by one to the door of the coach, curtain stretched rom the top of the car all over the women and their conveyances. a twinkle ol Aeet, glimpse of some shapely ankles l was all we saw. The big, six-foot 2O0 | pounder showed his teeth, glared at us | and In moment slammed the door and tHal was the last we saw of the five Mo | nammedan wives You know a high-cla ss l Mohainmedan never permits the eyes of any other man to rest on the features of ms wives. l find that only those who can support more than one wife are al- l lowed to have them. i
 l suppose, first of at, the many tbins.l or interest in India one wants to seq i. | the raj Mahal 1 wrote you of this in | my last letter. Next, believe is a sight | ol 1ie Hlmalayan mountains at parieil- | Ing. l went to Darjeiling, which is in the l northern part of India, next to Thibet | T rom mat place the highest mountain l peaks m the world can be seen. Mount l everest heads the list, rising over % Ooo 1 feet in the air. To see these Ioftv naa11s ] It IS pest to leave your hotel in Darieiling l winch has an elevation of 1000 feet and go 10 Tiger HILL whicn has an elevation l or looO0 feet. The great desire of all l travellers is to see this at sunrise Tn or uef To do this you must leave vour hotel l at at o'clock in the morning and go in q 1
 uandy,' which is the easiest way to get | up the mountain A dandy is shanaS something like small canoe with square l ehu Tn which you sit with your feet stretched out at full length It Is about | hVe rect long and a beam runs ont at each end on which there is a cross bar It IS carried with these cross bars resting on 'he shoulders of men who are Thibe- tahs all the same height and very strong It usually takes four to six men to tbo uahay' but my men complained that I was above the average size and unet nave eight men. l thought of my friend hHk Moore, and wondered how he wouId ever get up Tiger Hill At 3 o'clock next morning they woke us and said the sky was clear and the view would be fine. After they once took my dandy on thei,. shouioers they never halted or put me uoWn untll they climbed to the top, of mat mountain. seven miles from our notei We reached the summit before daylight and found it bitter cold. About 70 people were there to see the magnif-