. The tribes and castes of the Central Provinces of India . n iron girdle, while all the rest of their vessels areof earthenware. Each house has several chulkas or smallhorseshoe erections of earth for cooking. Each person inthe house has a sleeping-cot if the family is comfortably off,and a spare one is also kept. These must be put out andexposed to the sun at least once a week to clear them offleas and bugs. It is said that the Jains cannot adopt thismethod of disinfecting their beds owing to the sacrifice ofinsect life thereby involved ; and that there are persons inCalcutta who make it the
. The tribes and castes of the Central Provinces of India . n iron girdle, while all the rest of their vessels areof earthenware. Each house has several chulkas or smallhorseshoe erections of earth for cooking. Each person inthe house has a sleeping-cot if the family is comfortably off,and a spare one is also kept. These must be put out andexposed to the sun at least once a week to clear them offleas and bugs. It is said that the Jains cannot adopt thismethod of disinfecting their beds owing to the sacrifice ofinsect life thereby involved ; and that there are persons inCalcutta who make it their profession to go round and offerto lie on these cots for a time ; they lie on them for somehours, and the little denizens being surfeited with theirblood subsequently allow the owner of the cot to have aquiet night. A cot should always be shorter than a manslength, so that his legs project over the end ; if it is so longas to contain his whole length it is like a bier, and it is fearedthat lying on a cot of this kind will cause him shortly to lie ture,. II CLOTHES 91 on a bier. Poor tenants do not usually have cots, but sleepon the ground, spreading kodon-straw on it for have no bedding except a gudri or mattress made ofold rags and clothes sewn together. In winter they put itover them, and sleep on it in summer. They will have awooden log to rest their heads on when sleeping, and thiswill also serve as a seat for a guest. Malguzars have arazai or quilt, and a doria or thick cloth like those used forcovering carts. Clothes and other things are kept in jhdvipisor round bamboo baskets. For sitting on there are machnisor four-legged stools about a foot high with seats of grassrope or pir/iis, little wooden stools only an inch or two fromthe ground. For lighting, wicks are set afloat in littleearthen saucers filled with oil. Landowners usually have a long coat known as angarkJia 37-reaching to the knees, with flaps folding over the breasts andtied with strings. The b
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