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A Moham of an age, and the three wives, and the paterfamilias medan Pater himself. How do they live?
* Coming back to town we passed the women who
pick grass. A little sparse grass grows along the roadside, cropped to the bare soil by the flocks and flocks of goats and sheep and cows that throng the roads all day and all night. Women go along digging at these stumps of grass, pluck them out by the roots, wash off the soil and sell them in the market.
Barbie and I have been to see the silk mills, and the sandalwood oil mills, two of the boasts of Mysore's Progressive modern and progressive administration. They had the Mysore best Qf everything. At the silk mills, dyes from Germany, machinery from France, the famous gold thread of Lyons, made in Bangalore by brothers of the famous family in Lyons who have made this gold thread for generations. And at the head of the spinning department a darling little Japanese woman, The Silk who showed and explained everything with so much Mills smmng pride. I could only understand half her eager stream of words, but did you know that each small yellow cocoon has wound upon it three hundred to five hundred metres of one, fine gossamer thread?
The delicate brown hands of the Indian workers (mostly women) working in this spinning maze of gossamer threads was as wonderful as a dream. They get eight annas (ninepence) per day.
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[facing SADHUS, BEGGING their way from shrine TO shrine, living vessels of prayer
EACH CRUMB THEY BEG AN OFFERING TO THE GODS