Evening star., 1924-06-15
TOGO is BENARES PILGRIMS
Jaba"ese chooboy Dscourses Upon
Cured IN Ruer by Someh;uo E7se

To Editor The Star, who have liked
In America too long to know the
relidgeous significance Of mike
robes
~ EAR SIR: When | lepp on
train yestdy am. for see
BenareS | were misinformed d
~ by my Indian Guide (price 3
rupees) that Benares are the holiest
city in the world. This makes me G.
Nogi enjoy slight nervusness because
We pack our grip 50 forgot to put in
a gas mask. We have observed con-
siderable holiness in India e. just
scarcely lived through it by use OF
llsterine & other throat giggles But
We cannot think about everything in
exploring expeditions. For instance
ly one Cd Lady in our party forget
to pack her lipstick and amost got
sunstrike.
But yet we was anxious to see
Benares. because it are all wrapped
around with fables G. legends wrote
by sacred press-agts of ancient times
Everything in India have got a Ie
gend tied to it, When a priest find
a place with no legend he fix one up
rapidly & charge annas apiece to
natives who enjoy good lie when
Well told. For instancely, when a
End hand dish-towel are found under
sacred bunion tree. Hon. Priest think
quickly and tell time story
about Goddess Kali who dropt that
dish-towel when washing the sacred
ash-tray of Brahma. This relidgeon
are not so hard when you learn the
sistem.
so onWards we bounced toward
Benares while our Indian Guide tell
US history, price one Cd rupee extra
for every mile
from the commencement of the
world, when Time were first invented
Benares have been sacred because it
stand on the bank of the Ganses at
the spot where the most amount of
sewerage come down. This town
were also the birthplace of Buddha
out the Buddhists has all escaped
from BenareS who did not care for
6oodha pretty much Gotama Budd-
m made about as much impression
On Benares as Ralph Waldo Emerson
uof1d Of made in the home of p. r.
Barnum.
III are the customary of pilgrims
to come from all portions of India for
snght bath in the sanctimonious
waters of Ganges. This are Supposed
10 cure all diseases, which are easy. |
II true. When Believer go to |
Ganges with ingroing toe-nails & |
come home with leprosy Hon. High |
Priest look very Cal Coolidge & tell |
MIN go next year and get something |
else. Hon. GangeS are a kind of ZOO
logical grabb-bag When you splupee
In you never know what YOU will
bring out.
WELL, all day while approaching
Benares by train, Hon. G. I. p.
RR KEEP stopping for to hitch on
more cars filled with Pilgrims. They
were very curio people to observe
Some of them was wushippers of
silva. God of Calamity: others was
wushippers of Vishnu, God of Salts
faction.
silva are favorit god of India, be-
more depressed than usual. You can ]
tell silva man from a Vishnu man
by the scenery he wear painted on
lis forehead. This would be good ]
dea for Republicans and Democrats q
IL llIiieS "neH tney ln1nk eZaCkly | c
like, yet prefer to hate each other. =
When we approach near up to Ben S
lres, that train got so suffocated with q
Pilgrims that or 9 fell off and went c
o Heaven every time we jounce 6
curves. Some of those per- \
ons was Fakers, what look different c
rom the rest because they wear less ,
lothes, more hair & cover themselves 8
With ashes which give them appear q
nee of Russian garbage men paying {
n election bett. .
To make them more holy and hard Y
o look at they bleach whiskers to >
olor of fried orange peel; this they
10 by holding them in juice of the
acred goo-goo tree. Some of those
rakers sticks shingle nails into their
hests to show Americans how holy S