. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. THE TAJ MAHAL FBOM THE ENTRANCE GATE The most beautiful building on earth with a story no less beautiful than the building itself. GUNGA DIN ON DRESS PARADEOrdinarily the Indian water carrier, or bhisti, is attired more nearly afterthe manner described in Kiplings poem:The uniform e woreWas nothing much beforeAn rather less than arf o that a twisty piece o rag and a goatskin leather bagWas all the field equipment e could 6nd. T
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. THE TAJ MAHAL FBOM THE ENTRANCE GATE The most beautiful building on earth with a story no less beautiful than the building itself. GUNGA DIN ON DRESS PARADEOrdinarily the Indian water carrier, or bhisti, is attired more nearly afterthe manner described in Kiplings poem:The uniform e woreWas nothing much beforeAn rather less than arf o that a twisty piece o rag and a goatskin leather bagWas all the field equipment e could 6nd. THE PLIGHT OF THE HINDU WOMAN 243 My friends have persuaded me that I ought not to marrya very young girl, he said to the agent, get an older one there-fore — oh, it doesnt matter if she is twenty-four. The agent left and two days thereafter the Hindu receivedthis message: Cant find one of twenty-four. How abouttwo of twelve each? The sorrows of a superseded wife, however, are as nothingto the troubles of a Hindu widow. The teaching of Brah-minism is that she is responsible through some evil committedeither in this existence or a previous one, for the death of herhusband, and the crudest indignities of the Hindu social systemare reserved for the bereaved and unfortunate woman. If
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