The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-30
ARE AT MRS. ANDERsON's
Tell of Life in Orient, Where Snakes
Mysteriously Drop Off Doors and
Bathrooms Have No Tubs or
Plumbing.

Mr.. and Mrs. Wendell Kumlein,
Moradavad; United Provinces, India,
ard little Miss Kumlein, rosy and roll
licking, aged year and little more,
are in Kenosha to spend Christmas.
1t will be remembered that trife over
two years ago, Miss Eva Theelen of
this city went to India where she was
married to Mr.. Kumlein, and this is
their first visit to the United States
since.
~ like India, J. like living there and
like the great opportunity to do work
that counts, which India gives the mis-
sionary," Mrs. Kumlein said yester-
day. With her husband she arrived
Monday afternoon at the residence of
Mrs. A. +. Anderson, GIL Jenne street,
where she will remain over the holt
days
May Terribly Hot.
Mrs. Kumlein admitted that it does
cake the energy from one to live in In
dia until he becomes acclimated, but
she says that it is a pleasant place to
live if one can go up into the noun
tains in May and June which are the
hottest months
"Last May, early, Mr.. Kumlein, the
baby and left Moradavad to go up
into the Himalaya mountains where we
stayed six months on account Of Mr..
KumleiE s. i'll health Mrs. Kumlein
said.
'tWe travelled by rail into Kathgo-
ban, foothill town, after which we
went by dandi--that is, in sedan chairs
for five days up the mountain sides
until we reached our destination. We
travelled only ten or twelve miles q
day and camped in the dak-dak means
ernment-bungalows at night.
"Wild animals are about in the
mountain Businesses and although we
heard of tigers and man-eating lions
being in the vicinity we did not see
any.
"The thing that is most perilous in
India are the snakes. These are not
found in the mountains, unless in the
jungles near the base, but they infest
che cities.
Cobras Visit Houses.
cit is not an unusual thing for
citizen TO find deadly cobra in his
house. never found snake in our
house but ours was new and particu-
larly we'll built. But had friend
who went into her bathroom, clad in
her robe 'enui, pulled up the door
cur doors are like Venetian blinds or
aerial shades-and the movement dis
lodged a snake that had been resting
on the top of it and he fell, striking
the back of her neck and slipped in
side her garment and dropped to the
floor.
fThe bathrooms are unlike ours.
They have no tub and no plumbing.
They are cement rooms with sloping
cement floor with hole in the lowest
corner where the water runs out. The
snakes often crawl in through this
hole. They also come in at the doors
for only the wealthiest people have
screen doors. There are no windows
= in the houses except four tiny ones on
the roof and these are covered with
wet black cloth to keep the sunlight
out. The houses are constructed with
walls two feet thick of cement or stone
in order that the heat may not pene-
trate. The rooms are about twenty
feet square and fifteen feet high, with
no windows, but the sunlight is so
bright that enough comes in through
the cloth covered windows and the
blinds at the doors.
Fear Snakes Bite Baby.
CT never let the baby crawl upon
the floor for an instant, neither do
other people in India, on account of
the danger from snakes. One must be
constantly on the watch for them and
for scorpions.
Mrs Kumlein said the city where she
lives in India has $4,000 inhabitants
of which about rs are Caucasians and
800 Eurasians and the rest natives.
The Euras:ans, she says, are the
tragedies of India. These are the half
breed descendants Oh E14guSn 1dLneTS
and native mothers, some of them chill
dren of wedlock and some Legitimate,
but all despised by the Indians and
ostracized by the Europeans. They
have she says, all the worst qualities
of both races, and added to it are ex-
tremely proud and sensitive and I'M
happy. They viii not do manual work
and as most of them have some educa-
ton they are employed by the govern
n.ent in its railway offices as guards
anC clerks.
Marry for Stated Period
Mrs. Kumlein said that many of the