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GLIMPSE OF INDIA
Sjuhts That TicIled a Tourists
Sense of Hunor.
cows OWN THE SIDEWALKS.
They Are All Sacred and Hence They
Have the Right of Way-Crows,
Snakes and Monkeys Also Sacred.
The JeweIry Fad.

The JeWelry + ad.
Four things in India are held sacred
COWS. crows. snakes and monkeys
saws Homer Croy in LeSlie's Ho"
they came TO select these above all 9th
ers to put Oh the sacred list is more
than any one knows.
You would have to hunt long time
to find anything homelier than sacred
COW. The sacred COWS are of solled
white. and they have long. dropping
iackra bDit ears and camels humps on
their necks just where The collar but
ton would come They look about as
sacred as corn shelter.
These COWS wander up and down the
street, and when they come to gro
Gerry thew calmly begin eating the veGe
tables op display The grocer cannot
drive them away, for they are sacred
All he can do is TO stand there with
plaintive, pleading expression III MS
eyes and hope thar the COW is not reel
ing well
From one grocery 10 another they
take the middle of the sidewalk. They
won't turn out under any consldera
fion-thev've rot to have the middle
of the sidewalk 1t takes the last rem,
nant OF my gent!emanir instincts 70
step out into the gutter 10 let COW
! pass ] Just itch 10 get my hands on
club If could ttere'd he ALI awful
| conclusion on abuu' the fourth sacred
floating rib
Ponder over it as | may. | have new,
er been able TO figure out why any
body who hasn't been out in the sun
too much should pick a crow to hold
sacred. One would think that if they
were going to pick any bird to hold
sacred they would select a beautiful
one, for India has hundreds of beauti-
full birds. and by no wild leap of the
=! Z !. ll4.I - - ~
nretty.
I thought our American crows were
| nomely. hut they are beautiful along
| side the Bombay crows The Bombay
crows are the dirtiest, greasieSt, most
| dilapidated looking birds ever saw IN
nv life They fake full advantage OF
| their sacredness. They will swoop
J down and pull vegetables out of bas-
| ket a person is carrying and will come
hopping in and drag things off the ia
| Bile. especially things that will spot the
} carpet, but one cannot touch them. for
) they are sacred.
. And they retire so late at night!
They dearly loved to sit on a limb out
! side my window and engage in scandal
: and gossip until late hour in harsh
voices until L would give anything II
before | left Missouri ! had packed
shotgun.
/ As for sacred snakes, India produces
| some fine ones, but they are in the
same class as are the sacred crows
with me.
Monkeys are in class by themselves,
and when one playfully losses a tile
from the roof at my head | miss that
| shotgun more than ever.
Another curious thing in India is the
jewelry fad.
| love to get on street car in BON
bay and ride just to see the conductor
He wears his turban wrapped around
his head and his skirt coiled around
his waist, and when he comes dowI
the aisle to collect your fare his brown
| knees pop in and out from under his
skirt as If il were some new kind OF
game.
Hindu street car conductor doesn't
worry much about the rags situated
here and there that make up bis
clothes His efforts are concentrated
on getting a big pair Of earrings. 1t Is
wonderful what success they have
Some of the rings look as if they haC
been cast for the navy. Their earrings
are not little hobs that hang from the
lower part of the ear, but are hoops
fastened in the top part The right cal
is the favorite On this they hang the
greater part of their silyerware.
India is great jewelry wearing
country. When it comes TO scattering
it around the women favor their ear:
first and their wrists second. Inc!
wear bracelets clear up to their elbow:
until they look like cane rack at Ole
home week The Hindus are afralt
to put their money in the bank. 81
they buy jewelry and string ii on thei
wives Hindu can't lift his heat
and look the world in the eye if hi:
| wife. coming down the sidewalk
doesn't rattle like a milk wagon. Ey
! cry time she puts up her hand to dt
her hair il sounds as if the next num
Der on the program were muscle
dance.
Toes are a favorite place with thu
HinduS for jewelry. The big toe i
certain of silver ring. and if th'
; pocketbook holds out the envious small
or ones are sure to be remembered
Some of the toe rings have tiny Gttl
bells. so that when a woman walks i
sounds as if the COWS were in the corr
IN the far forty