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ACL|MPSE or india
SjuhtS That Tickled a Tourists
Sense of Humor.
cows OWN THE SIDEWALKS.

They Are All Sacred and Hence They
Have the Right of Way-Crows'
Snakes and Monkeys Also Sacred.
The Jewetry Fad.
Four things In India are held sacred
COWS. crows. snakes and monkeys
says Homer Croy in Leslie's. How
they came to select these above all 9th
ers to put on the sacred list Is more
than any one knows.
You would have to hunt Il long time
to find anything homelier than sacred
COW. The sacred COWS are OF Solled
white. and they have long. dropping
iackrabbit 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, aud when they come to a gro
Gerry they calmly begin eating the vege-
tables on display. The grocer cannot
drive them away, for they are sacred
All he can do is to stand there with
plaintive, pleading expression In MS
ewes and hope that the COW Is not feel
ing we'll
From one grocery to another they
take the middle of the sidewalk. Ihey
won't turn out under any consldera-
1on-they've got to have the middle
of the sidewalk. 1t takes the last rem
nant Of my gentlemanly instincts 10
step out into the gutter to let COW
pass just Itch TO get my hands on
club. If could there'd be an awful
concussion on about the fourth sacred
floating rib.
Ponder over it as ! may, l have new
er been able to figure out why any
body who hasn't been out in the sun
too much should pick crow to hold
sacred. One would think that II they
were going to pick any bird to hold
sacred they would select beautiful
one. for India has hundreds Of beauti-
ful birds, and by no wild leap OF the
Imagination could crow be called
pretty.
I thought our American crows were
homely, but they are beautiful along
side the Bombay crows. The Bombay
crows are the dirtiest, greasiest, most
dilapidated looking birds l ever saw In
my life. They take full advantage OF
their sacredness. They will swoop
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 limb out
side my window and engage in scandal
and gossip until a late hour in harsh
voices until I would give anything II
before | left Missouri I 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 a class by themselves.
and when one playfully losses tile
from the roof at my head | miss that
shotgun more than ever.
Another curious thing in India is the
39~alFv fad.
I love to get on a street car in Bonn
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 down
the aisle to collect your fare his brown
knees pop in and out from under MS
-
gome.
A Hindu street car conductor doesn't
worry much about the rags situated
here and there that make up his
clothes. His efforts are concentrated
on getting big pair of earrings. 1t IS
wonderful what success they have.
Some of the rings look as if they had
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 ear
IL the fayorite. On this they hang the
greater part of their silverware.
India Is great jewelry wearing
country. When it comes to scattering
It around the women favor their ears
first and their wrists second. They
wear bracelets clear up to their elbows
until they look like cane rack at old
home week The Hindus are afraid
to put their money in the bank, so
they buy jeweiry and string ii on their
wives. A Hindu can't lift his head
and look the world in the eye if his
wife, coming down the sidewalk.
doesn't rattle like milk wagon. Ev-
ery time she puts up her hand to do
her hair it sounds as if the next num-
Der on the program were muscle
dance.
Toes are a favorite place with the
Hindus for jewelry. The big toe is
certain Of silver ring, and II the
pocketbook holds out the envious small
er ones are sure to be remembered
Some Of the toe rings have tiny little
bells. so that when a woman walks it
sounds as if the cows were in the corn
on the far forty.
ideas Are Dollars.
Some large business firms employ a
man whose sole duty 1t Is to read ev-
cry trade journal every technical pa
per or pamphlet and every magazine
In order to get new ideas about the
conduct Of their business. Such infor-
ma tton is laid each day before the
heads Of the various departments, VINO
In turn pass 1t down the line to men
under them and see that the new idea
is tested. By this means each worker
Is kept in touch with what other men