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Show bnalBa , .: r FIRST BIOHTOP INDIA. M ltombay aa fUbnrata Combination ' H fltraago alhte ami Ronndf, H From London Mall The first sight ot M India Is amailng entrancing stupefy- jH Ing Of other countries you become aaaanD aware gradually, Italy lead! up to lb IL.1.H LevanL and Kgypt passes you on In- oH sensibly to the desert Landed In Horn- JiaiaK bay, you have strayed Into a most elan- "otlSR orate dream. Infinite In variety, blurred mEy with complexity a gallery ot atrang tLHrj facet, a butt of strange voices, a "Sc lalnbow ot strange colors a garden of Cea! strange growths a book ot strange aauSfr questions a pantheon of alrange gods Y fnnffSv Different beasts and birds In the street, Sftlf different clothes to wear different meal lfc3 times and different food the very com )BvJ moneat things are altered You begin WsjKI a new life In a new world It take HHh time to come to yourself At first laaanK everything Is so noticeable that you OBf notice nothing When thing begin to IHi come sorted and lifted, Ilombay re- naaaR veals Itself aa a city ot monitrous con- .Hal trasts Along the sea front one splen- H did public building fallows another H variegated atone facades, with arch and H colonnsde, cupola and pinnacle and jH statuary At their feet huddle flimsy M huts of malting thstched with leaves, M which a day's rain would reduce to mud H and pulp You sit In a marble paved H club, vast and airy aa a Human villa. H nd look out over gardens of heavy H scarlet and purple flower toward chok- ,H Ing alleys where half naked aavagei H herd by families together In open- H fronted rooms, and filth rum down gut- H lies to fetter In the lunken street In H this quarter )ou may sea the weaver H twirling his green and amber wool on H a hand loom a skeleton io simple and H fragile that n kick would make sticks H of It, go to the street corner and you Haaal see black smoke belch from a hundred saataanl roaring mills whose competition cuts H the throat of all the world In the H large, open spaco Parsers bowl each H other full-pitches and cry "Tank jrod, H t'ank you," after each ball, by the rail H equate a Hindoo, who would like. It H only the law would let him. to marry H bable and burn wldoai. Yet, for alt M It Incongruities, Iloubay nerer let JH you forget that It Is a very great city. H It It had no mill! It would be renowned H tor IU port, It It hid neither It would H bo fimoui for It beauty And If It 1 were as ugly as It Is fair. It would still H bo one of the most astounding collec- B tlons of human animals In the world. H Forty languages, ll Is said, are habit- H ually spoken In Its baiaars That, to M him who understands no word ot any H ot them, Is perhaps more curious than H Interesting, but then every race has It! M own costume, so that tho streets ot M Ilombay are a kaleidoscope ot vermll- H Ion turbani and crimson, orange and B flams color, ot mea In blue and brown 9H and emerald waistcoats, women In cher- M ty colored satin drawers, or mantles. H drawn from the head across the bosom H to the hip, of blitlng purple or green fll that ihlnei liki a grasshopper, It you MH check your eye and ask your mind for H the msstsr color ln the crowd, It li H while whit bordered with brown or H fawn or damson legs. fl |