Show I PROPITIATE THE GODS IN INDIA 1 Religious Rites Required Throughout the Entire Season Agricultural practice in southern India from start to finish requires re religious rites says 1538 the th Madras Mall Mail MallIn MailIn In tho the Tamil districts dl tho agri agni agricultural cultural year commences about aboul April On April 23 the lit cultivators of a vil village 11 hag lage consult a who fixes for them the kind of ot wood that they ther should cut and take away Ho He Is IB sup supposed posed to settle Bottle the question as tho the I of astrological observations mado made on tho the commencement of or the Tamil Now Years arf day dar which falls about April 13 Each cultivator then takes a little camphor some Incense a n few plantains and a cocoanut and I with others assembled for tho the purpose ho he proceeds proceed to the forests where he worships tha treo ho IB la about to cut offering the th plantains and the cocoa cocoanut cocoanut nut nul Then he lops off the first branch taking good care caro that It falls on the right aldo In each year eartho the tho side aide Is I different Prosperity to and rind his cattle Is 16 firmly believed to depend I Ivery very oJ much upon thin He then the cuts cuU away the required quantity of or wood I and arid takes It homo home Another nother day is i h then thon selected soon I niter after the early earl rains of the th same samo I month by the and then thon tho the greatest event of or tho the agricultural year occurs Each ryot rot takes the wood he has selected for the plow which Is newly fitted up and taken laken to the field where the bullocks are arc tied to U It and behind It stand other plows with teams of oxen tied to them while largo crowds assemble around the teams Tho principal plowman then thon daubs the pair pall of oC oxen tied to the new plow with aniline powder and turmeric paste he lights camphor and burns Incenso before it breaks a n cocoanut and with It ho makes an offering of oC ofa oCa ofa a pot of water and an parched grain and Bengal gram Then Thon ho drives the plow across acro s tho the field pre coded by hr the tho other othor plowmen and after a few rounds the oxen are aro unyoked and the offering distributed to those present A Study in Green GreenHo GreenHo Ho got bot off orI the Pullman lit hit a per perfumed perfumed perfumed fumed cigarette and began to walk the S platform He was a tall young oung man and a little too thin in the legs for his hia I height but his shoulders were wide enough his tailor had seen to that thaL th thaLAs L LAs As ho swung along the platform I with a studied stride imported from Iron I Pall Mall he ho was a n picture for a iL cloth clothiers lers artist His cap was 1 not a i vivid green but a subdued sort suit of oC au an green His Hla clothes matched his hi j cap His green trousers were elo rolled i up displaying a pair or of blo green silk slIk socks ThIe fh le were e O green greet I laces In hits his shoes and his hl necktie was wa I groan green with a 51 green stickpin In It and andon andon anc I Ion on the hand with which he ho carried his HO so gracefully was a I large lars green groon set ring He was a all aU right rl ht Tho Th t tonly only thing wo we would hoe have changed I about him was tho the look on his proud young oung face As s tho the con conductor conductor conductor ductor shouted Aboard we were sorry to see aeo eo the young man fall falt ou on biB bis I hands and knees In his haste to got gel up 1111 tho the stops steps and out of our vulgar midst Newark N J News |