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THINGS AS THEY SEEM TO Dc
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"For to behold and for to see
The wonders of this world so wide"
November 23.-We had very
pleasant trip to Delhi today. And
may say in passing that nothing dis
gusts an Englishman more than for
an American to call it Delhigh-the
correct pronunciation is Del'lee. The
king who built the beautiful Top
Mahal at Agra formerly lived at Delhi.
He was king of all India, and had a
marble palace here. You will regret
to learn that this king was dethroned
and imprisoned for seven years by
his son, the son of the woman in
whose honor the Tai was built. The
son said the old man was crazy on
the subject of marble palaces and
tombs, and dethroned him.
The guide attending us today is a
widower of sixty-eight, yet he is mar
ried to a girl of twenty. He is a high
caste Brahmin, and tomorrow in
tends to take one of my friends Miss
s. to see his wife, who permits
no man except her to look at her face,
otherwise might go along, too. The
guide says his wife is a very wonder
full woman, he has 1000 kin, and she
remembers all their birthdays. She
makes him take a bath when he goes
home at night, before coming near
her, because of his contamination by
being with two Episcopalians from
Georgia and Alabama.
The Coronation Dubar
Delhi. at this time is the "City of
Tents" and known officially as the
Coronation Dubar Camp, with its
beautiful boulevards and its architec-
tural wonders. IOnly a few months
ago. this Ephemeral town, now, occu-
pied by the camps, was cultivated,
agricultural land, converted into
miles and miles of we'll bordered
roads, with picturesque groupes of
pavillions, and tents, neatly laid out
parks, magnificent triumphal arches,
carved gateways-nothing like 1t can
ever have existed anywhere in the
world. The Curzon Dubar, ha
been told, was merely a sort of dress
rehearsal for it.
The internal, organization govern.
ing the life of the community inhabit-
ing that wonderful city, of a few
weeks, was so perfect, so admirably
designed, and carried out. The postal
service is as full and rapid as one
could wish in any modern civilized
city. There are postoffices, telegraph
offices, and telephones in every quart.
ers, each camp has it's own inquiry
office, and bureau of information and
railways. The guests in the official
camps, are all provided with motor
cars.
The center of attraction for every
body is the Area covered by the
camps of the Ruling Chiefs. Three
main roads traverse it. Kingsway in
the middle, and Princess Road and
Coronation Road on either side, of it.
The frontages of the camps are extra.
ordinarily handsome, each has its
own design of entrance; usually a
variety of what is generally known as
a triumphal arch. The most wonder
full sight, of all Is Cashmeres' splen-
did gates, and walls, of the beautiful
carved wood for which the country
is so famous. OF course, one of the
great attractions of this city of wond-
ers, is the variety of race and caste,
of the people who live in it, There
has probably never been such a great
assemblage of the people and chiefs
of India.
Every day of ones life has its
picturesque incidents. While in
Delhi, I witnessed the arrival of a
Maharaja who, as he emerged from
the station, was showered with rose
leaves by large crowd of admirers.
Coming into the camp yesterday
was a procession, on gaily caparison-
ed camels and elephants that was
positively medieval.
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