The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-07-30

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ed to this and thus she was at lib
erty to establish a girls school an,
to open up dispensary. The girls
school is the only one in the state
The dispensary is a great blessin:
to the people of Tehr. The sick ant
afflicted come in great numbers ant
best of all they hear the story of sal
walton. The doctor simply took po
session of us and accompanied us e
the Oak bungalow where we were
to stay.
Our luggage coolies we're slow III
coming. DR.. Vrooman knew the
would be and leaving us she had on
of her servants make us some lovely
chapatis (Hindustani bread). The
coolies came about 2:30, however
and We soon prepared a lunch. We
were very hungry Tehri Ten ana
sliced cOrned beef and other things
disappeared. AS our hunger was
lessening under those circumstances
the doctor came with one of her
servants, bearing a great stack of
chapatis and great dish of oyster
stew. We never did learn where the
oysters came from, but concluded
they must have been sent from
Amertea. They were, delicious at
any rate and We did them Justice,
even though our meal was fairly
completed before we began on the
stew.
We invited the doctor and Miss
Bradford, the Indian woman who
lives with her and assists her with
her work, to supper that evening.
The doctor suggested that she come
at six that evening and take us out
to see Tehri.
Some of our party were too tired
to take advantage of the opportun
ity to send letters home and went
into the bungalow for much mead
ed rest. Others of us tried to get
a few lines off to mother and 9TH
ers, between annOyances OF flies, heat
and the voluble grumblings of the
coolies because we had informed
them that we would leave Tehri the
next day and they wished to remain
there the next day.
DR.. VrOoman came at six and
took us to see the Raja's garden,
beautifully terraced up the side of
the hill on which the palace stands.
This garden is not only beautiful
with it's varity of old fashioned flow
ers, but useful in it's fine fruits. At
the entrance of the garden is the
Raja's little zoo in which are two
deer and the most beautiful old
tiger 1 ever saw. He was captured
when a cub near the palace grounds
and my, but he was angry when the
gentlemen tried to photograph him.
out it's buds and the old servant
there gave us huge bunch of them.
We saw the guinea fowls in their
nice little house and everything was
nice and clean about the palace
grounds. We did not have permits
sion to go into the palace.
The palace and the reception hall
which is separate are both quantity
built. 1t would have been a great
treat to see the interiors of these
buildings.
The old Raja died last year
(1913) and his son, the present Raja
is only about fifteen years old aAd
is unmarried.
DR.. VrOoman is very good
friends of the RAM and spoke of
her with such tenderness and even
pity. waen she spoke O; the hope
lessness of the RAM changing her
religion.
The view down over the Gauges
from the palace grounds is beautiful.
Supper was soon ready after we
returned to the bungalow and |
think DR.. Vrooman thoroughly en-
joyed the Heinz's baked beans and
timed pineapple. After supper she
told us of her work in Tehri and OF
Tehri itself, all of which was very
interesting. We were interested to
know what Tehri covers an acrea Of
5000 square miles with about 3O0,-
900 inhabitants and has about 2,OOe
villages. Many of the villages are
so hemmed in that the inhabitants
seldom ever get out of their own
village.
.Tehri and sometimes great damage
isSdone by them Couple of days be-
fore we were there a wild panther
had killed several goats, calves,
horses, etc. He killed one Of the
costs nexf DR.. fVro0man's house.
The .night We were there the heat
- - lltense va slept outside