Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — A Dwelling-house in India. [ARTICLE]

A Dwelling-house in India.

From “Phillips Brooks’s Letters from India,” in the Century, we quote this passage: “Fancy an enormous house rambling out into a series of immense rooms, all on one floor, piazzas twenty feet deep, immense chambers (in the middle of which stand the beds), doors and windows wide open, the grounds filled with palms, bananas, and all sorts of tropical trees, the song of birds, the chirp of insects everywhere, and a dazzling sun blazing down on the Indian Ocean in front. A dozen or more dusky Hindu servants, barefooted, dressed in white, with bright sashes around their waists, and bright turbans on their heads, are moving about everywhere, as still as oats and with no end of devotion to their little duties. One of them seems to,have nothing to do but to look after me; he has worked over my limited wardrobe till he knows every shirt and collar better than Ido myself. He is now brushing my hat for the twelfth time this morning. The life is luxurious. Quantities of delightful fruit, cool loungiDgplaccs with luxurious chairs, a sumptuous breakfast- (or “tiffin,” as we call it here) and dinner-table, and no end of kind attention. I am writing in my room on the day before Christmas, if it were a rather hot August morning at home.”