Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-03 | Page 7 | Famine of Ghee in India

Famine of Ghee Ghe in India What the wh whole le town was so so pro- pro agitated agitate about and what had flung a gloom over over the native community community was nothing more than the Increasing increasing in- in creasing scarcity of ghee of-ghee ghee Ghee was the he only nutritious article artcle of diet that the he vast majority of natives natives' possessed possessed Few had the means to get milk mik and could use it except as a rare lux luxury ry Fewer could afford or were allowed by their heir religious scruples to consume fish meat or eggs Butter was within the he reach of only the very richest class To the great bulk of the population it itis its I Is s a valuable val medicine which in cases ot of f extreme emaciation is taken in smal small doses under the hakim's advice or sparingly plastered on the head to cure brain disease Coarse COrse bread br d made of wheat sometimes but generally of a mixture wheat I Indian dlan and nd varius vari- vari o of wheat van van- ous us inferior food grains gains with wih a little greens or or thin pulse soup is the dally daily daly food of the masses mases Everybody however however howver how- how ever ver tries tries' to add a little ghee e to the humble fare When the price rose to a seer and half this necessary necessary rose to the position of f a luxury When the bazar rate went vent up to a seer the luxury became a aare rare are treat And now It is 15 The majority earn between 5 or 6 rupees rupees ru ru- pees how many of them can now take ghee jhee Even are under the necessity ne ne- of curtailing their allowance Then hen not only as a food but in the Indispensable in- in Indispensable dispensable religious ceremonies of the ghee must be poured on the sacrificial fires Worse than all dearness dearness dearness dear- dear ness has stimulated adulteration and the he very foundations of orthodoxy orthodoxy ortho- ortho doxy oxy are threatened Is it a wonder that hat ghee famine is such a terrible thing to o he the naU e native natie In the ancient works on medicine ghee is called life le vitality and so 0 it Is If it I its virtues a are une rightly understood Lahore Lahore Trib Trib-