| Show abstemiousness how hindmo worl live on dikty cents C ait it a chero A here is no abstemiousness in tire the world arid and no thrift like tile the thrift anti and abstemiousness 4 oft of the lie average na native tive of india al almost most alone alon 0 amon among or t alie lie work in ingunn niell of the clio world ho hellas has raised himself nearly above wants has stripped ped himself of nil tile of lux i ury millions of men in india especially ally on oil the richer oils and in tile the river il al eltis live marry and rear apparently parent ly healthy children upon an income me which even when the lie wife wo works rk is rarely above fifty rents cents it a week rind and fr frequently sinks to thirty six sik cents the indian is to do this not so much bythe by alie cheapness of food for though iio it is cheap a bump european who ito io tile the same food would want five times the money merely to feed himself iw by bv a habit of living which makes him independent of the ordinary cares of mankind ile he goes nearly dearly without clothes gives ili his children none drics les liis his wife in ill a lot long piece of the most wretched muslin neither lie not nor his wife pay par tailor oz or milliner one shilling during their entire lives nor do they c ver ever purchase needles or thread tin end which indeed it is contrary to it a aerni religious religions etiquette ever to use tile the polier pleasant peasant innab inhabits its a hut hilt Conta containing illing a single covered room of tile the smallest size with an in earthen platform or two outside it and as lie e constructs and repairs his own dwelling ili lie ho virtually pays no rent except for the land ile he never touches alcohol alco liol or any substitute forit for it there is in all idea in england angland that lie cats opium or licop but he as a rule wallows neither firstly because lie he reg regards ards them with as much inorio a antipathy I 1 liti pathy its as any englishman gentleman In alland and secondly because he could not by any possibility pay for articles which in india a as everywhere else ire arc exceedingly expensive ile he eats cati absolutely no meat nor any animal fat nor any ally expensive grain like good wheat but lives on millet or small rice a little littie milk with the butter from the milk and the vegetables e lie he grows even of these lie he eats cats more sparingly than the poorest once a 1 ri quarter perhaps he will eat cat enough during C sonio festival but as 1 a I rule lie he knows accurately what aliat will wil I 1 sustain him bim and would be enraged with the wife who cooks for him if she prepared more he is assisted in 1 this economy by a religious religions rule which we have never seen a hin doo break and which is like tile the rule a against ainest killing oxen 1 a I survival from a military law or custom of tho the most remote antiquity alieda or |
