Show CARPET WEAVERS OF INDIA Hard I Hard to Imagine Work More Monotonous Monotonous onous Than That In Which They Thoy Paw Pass Their Lives Carpet weavers of ot India work in a along along along long narrow shed thatched straw without any walls open to sunshine and the fitful breeze that stirs the swaying leaves of the slender slen elea der palm pRIm and coconut trees rearing their tall proud heads above it Four or five or even more boys sit on wooden wood wood- en boards on the th mud floor In front of the old fashioned loom their feet teet resting in a shallow pit underneath it dug especially to receive them In 10 one corner squats a man his back probably turned to the weavers his eyes dreamily gazing into space or quite shut hut droning Three magent two green five blue one orange and so 10 on His sleepy song singsong sounds to one unfamiliar with his language like the babbling of ot one talking in his sleep or like muttered prayers But ho ha is neither dreaming nor performing performing per per- forming his devotions devotion He is dictating to the boys boy at the loom the colors colora of ot the thread that each respective worker work work- er Is to twist about the particular strand on which ho I is working The lads obey his commands as mechanically mechanically as If it they thoy were automatons None of ot them knows aught of the scheme of ot the carpet nor is any of ot them conscious of ot the progress that thatis is la being worked out on the other side Ide of the carpet from that on which the weavers i gaze ze |