Show BEAUTIES Il IN INDIA Ir OLD AT 35 WRITER OF SONGS LEARNS i w wI I I Clr Cl a r d 34 t 1 y I I LilA LILl I Temple Dancers Spend Lives Live Perfecting Their Bodies By E E t YORK June 22 Mrs Irs Lily Strickland Just hack from India sa sass sas s the temple d dancers of or India ho put ph Ical beauty ahead of or ev- ev cv ev else olse are old omen wen en n they're 30 1 lee It es and often the re old crune at 40 0 says Mrs Strick land no has lust Just returned front India where hero she sh h bee doing re arch Mork ork it ork Ninety nine per par cent of ot the tho th women Omon there thore ther are educated et e oly along alone physical ph line linee M they are aro ar children buth buh Interests as liS politics politic re r clord book books to them tn Eten El en the th one per pr cent of at women who receive any sort or Of education In India the gIrls tins who iho become temple dancers dancers- dancers calEd cal ca'l d are girls are taught only those thos things which VIII tell hev hep tUI mi tui them to be b more beach Fis they spend their J lit Il es es ea In beauty parlors Catu CalO o o of ot the th body bouy is an art They bath daily In 01 olho olito e or oil T They oy perfume the 09 heavily Ith the essential oils oil oi of o jasmine and attic ot of o roses sandalwood dalwood and pungent amber ambr ret fet get with all tills this care car and the lives of ot oas ease that they le Iced a U women omen begIn to ag age before tny are JO 30 0 They are old women uc olt 3 iS and at lit 40 they tun hate hale e lost eiery CHey e ery trace ot of ones enesa Mrs Mr Strickland Is well known as ns ODe boe on of ot the th leading tomen omon com composers Her Bosou Ba ou SOl oies GS 53 an original com combination of at art and Juz rhythm are aro aroon on the concert programs program of at rony Dy famous singers I o or her hur hurr herre r research earch work ork In the th music ot of India she libe h ha been made mad n a member of or the Asiatic Re- Re enich society the only woman to have havo achieved cd that honor |