The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-18

Y and One Persian DayS,' which
 usually begin with something like "Once upon a time there was a ra- k jah who sat upon a golden throne, and slept upon a pearl carpet, and built golden-rOOfed pavilion for a beautiful Queen,' you may journey comfortably to India, then on to Delhi and Agra, and see the empty palaces of the Mo gull kings, which are very little changed save that they now rcver- berate mournfully to the footfall of western shod feet, and their marble walls have been melloWed to the tint of old ivory by 250 years of Indian sun. So writes Eleanor Maddock in Asia.
 You may walk among the colon nades of the great Hall of Audience lnlaid with flowers of lapis lazuli, jade, topaz and carnelian that seem to grow upon the walls, and burst into bloom on the very spot where rested Shah Jahans "PeacOCk Throne" a glorified four poster bedstead of solid gold with pearl-fringed canopy upon (which the emperor sat daily to dis pense justice, his turban ablaze with diamonds and his lowered tunic al most hidden by ropes of pearls. Be- hind him sapphires, rubies and emer- aids glowed from the outspread tails of two peacOcks and over his head hung a parrot. wrought from a single emerald, holding in it's beak the Koh-i- nor diamond.
 You may enter the great silent ha rem without hindrance and pause be- fore the lace-like marble screen which OverloOks the cool scented garden, heavy with the perfume of orange and mango blossoms. A staircase leads from the garden to Queen A"jamund's golden-roofed pavilion and rose water bath-all a solid mass of exquisite in lay-and in the thickness of the mar ble walls are cunningly contriVed apertures just large enough to admit a Womans hand, where the queen kept her jewels at night.
 It is long time since Shah Jahan's empress was laid under the swelling dome of the Tai Mahal across the Riv- CT Jumna, yet her personality fingers in her bOudOir of fretWOrk arches, where she bedecked herself with jew els more dazzling and splendid than any woman has ever worn before or since.
 ' Pearl Carpet Really Exists.
 But that such thing as a pearl car
 
 be tax on credulity, did it not actually hang on the wall of the NuZerbagh palace at Baroda. This relic of past era of bizarre extravaganza is de- scribed as SX6 feet. Three large dia- mond flower patterns form the center; S2 smaller diamond patterns, and 1,2G9 rubies, 569 emeralds in flower designs form the border; the remaining DOT tion of the carpet is composed of seed pearls, although in places along the outer edge they have been removed and replaced by glass beads. A more tabsurd and useless object, apart from it's monetary value. would be hard to find even in India. But if we hark back to the time before the rich gem mines, the extensive pearl nSnefleS on the west coast and on the island of Ceylon had been exhausted, when they weEe yielding their treasure by the butketful, it takes little effort of the imagination to picture an eastern po- tentate, laden with jewels until he could scarcely sustain their weight, re- clining on the Peacock throne before the pearl carpet.
 Such treasure, being in itself inde- structible, has descended through the dynasties of the Hindu kings, and later of the Mogul emperors, when laden caravans from Persia were con stantly adding to their wealth. So that tine jewels owned today by the ra- jas and ruling princes of India, esti- mated not by numbers. but by meas