The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-24

perhaps the descendants of the ori- ginal inhabitants of Bali.
 The dwellings of these mountain eers are very simple. They consist of a bamboo room which serves as bedroom and kitchen. The farms are shut off from one another by high walls Of thick undergrowth The dwellings Of the Sudras are not much better. They consist of low and small huts, made of clay and covered with kadjung Cpalm leaf thatches) A certain num'.cr of these make up a farm, separated from the world by high walls of clay or bricks, covered on top with reeds. A whole village is again surrounded by high walls or fences; attacks on these villages has cost many a gallant life. A very nar- row door is generally the only way along which people as well as light and air may enter the houses. From one room to another the passage Is not very comfortable, as it is made possible only by very narrow doors on both sides of which is a stairway. eight to ten feet high. A wooden tent on high poles, the bale-handeng or outlook house." furnishes accomOda- tions for guests. A kitchen, a rice shed and a buffalo shed are erected on the same farm.
 Polygamy is permitted, but on the whole monogamy prevails. The rcla- ton between the couple (often mar ried in childhood) is considered as being one for the whole life and even after that. From time to time cases of satya (suttee), a faithful wife stabbing herself on the top of the funeral pyre of her husband, occur Some years ago a case of this kind at the cremation of one of the princes afforded reason for Dutch intervention and annexation of part of the island. It is understood that widows not be- longing to the Ida caste come to the care of the prince if there is no son to inherit the property. and to work for his mother. The women who fall to the prince are sometimes raised to the rank of concubines, but gener- ally used as servants or bayaderes.
 The prince possesses the right to dispose of them in marriage. They may, however, prevent their being brought to the royal dwellings, of course with all they possess. by adopting a son or by appointing a brother or friend as heir.
 The BaIinese women are skilled " wood-carvings end sculpture as well as brass and copper work are done with great skill Their magnificent golden kriss-handles in the form of Mahakala (Great Time, the big de- stroyer) arouse just admiration, rich lv made up with jewels and precious stones. They possess a grand liter ature of Arian and national origin, written on palm leaves, or rather en- graved with a small knife. The script they developed from the old Indian ex- amples looks very clear and neat. A tendency to rococco and multifarious has been growing and distinguishes their too much adorned temples from the serene and more serious, though by no means inferior art of Central Java. The Bali temples are indeed worth seeing. In Java huge hewn stones are used for the construction Of the temples but here brick and mortar and more often still wood prevail.
 Just like in Java the shadow theatre (called wayang) is in use as a means of preserving the hoary tra- ditions (Mahabharata and Ramayana among them) and teaching the illit- crate by tales and stories. The 1eath- CT cut images (the art of incising leather is peculiar to Java and Bali, and is found nowhere else in the world so highly developed) are more human-like than those in Java. where tradition states, that, after the Mu- hammedan conquest, the first apostles (walls) of the new faith themselves ordered the figures to be changed into the quaint forms of Javanese wa yang, in order to enable the con verts to proceed with their plays without violating the strict Muharn medan law as to irpages of human bein<s-