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Show I POVERTY Mu II IN INDIA BY II OGDEN MEN II Dr. H. B. Forbes, who with "Bert" H I Hadlci is on a trip around the world, II writing from Jaiper, India, to bis H mother, says I Malper. Jan, .Ian 2, lf1.?. HI "Mrs. H. 1C Forbes. Ogden I tab. II Dear .Mother: Today I w.-rn I, . H rlage out about live miles from laiper II and saw the old fort and palace there H H They have elephants from a certain II c:nt for tourist lor 2 1-2 rupees. II about .l each. Tlier were many In-II In-II teresling things beautiful carved 1 1 work In stune and inlaid glass and I I mirrors, The whole wall and ceiling I I were carved with little mirrors and II crystal, etc. like a veritable crystal I II palace. The buildings are Immense III With narrow passages and stalrwavs! I II in all directions. However .laiper has I II beeft a little disappointing for a two I HI days' sta I II "There are more beggars and de- I formed and diseased persons to be I II een in India than any where 1 have I H been aud thev ari so Insistent we can I HI scarcely get away from them Wher. I C,CT we go. we develop would-be j I guides from somewhere, who go to all I MvM sorts of petty attentions unsolicited J I to eani a tip. On the streets the chil. HaVJ salaam with heads and bauds for III 'backsheesh ' Old fellows lool; up I M v hollow eyes and bow for alms. I HI and women with little children do I mm likewise It really gets irritating, pit-i I HI la le as it really is. Over here the I H men do only certain Winds of work ' I W& "d no othr One perhaps cleans the I ! borae and stable, one f-eds It. one IH drives It, etc., when really one could i If! d a" III 'Later I am at the station waiting I In for the train to Delhi. Have just re- I l turned from an Indian weddtne. Not I Hr.dlev's and not mliu- We heard a I fl good deal of noise and singing, aud I fl stood and looked In a large place a I I I few moments. We were discovered! I Bl and invited Inside It was at a na- I Mm tive hotel. The father of the boy is I I In a rich man ($100,000) and Is sin-nd- H' ln ?bout I3000 rm tho wedding that I jj j is the preliminary wedding The DO l Is twelve years old and thf girl much IH less. The bo seem to he taklus f very little interest In it. The, In- I II sir-led on hainc ua sit down to feast tfl on nine different kinds of food Thref. kjfl of the Inda were cooked vegetables i which we had to eat with fingers The I lea Is spiced with various substances and tastes rather nice but somewhat penpery. Then they brought out wine. I litr the boy's father had the clothes I brought out. The cloth was covered , with gold thread embroider) an tol seventy men tnilors about two months to complete. It is only worn a few dys durinc the ceremony and no 1 more af'cr that They said the girls clothes cost $600 or more and the hoys $300 or so. There were 3000 invited guests. T!iey also fed a whole narrow street lull of poor people, sitting two or three row s deep a 6hort block lone There wrs great excitement, too The' vultures and crows were hovering o r and looking pretty disconsolate After we were ready to leave they brought out a basket of all the differ, enl kinds of food and insisted on going go-ing along with us toward our hotel. s it was then after 2 p. m. we would I ncl allow it, as they had been alto-1 cether too kind already They certainly cer-tainly treated us nicely and it was no j i common affair el'her Still we did not get to see the bride or her attendants at-tendants or frlenda They were in another part of the hotel." on I |