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Tele Add " Grand " Phone No. 270. Grand Hotel. 3 Ahmedabad 192 lie all over the streets, eat out of house doors or stand in your way chewing their "cud". They seem quite sleak and fat in contrast with the people and other animals - everyone and everything seems to be underfed. The monkeys run all over building roofs, hang from towers and trees like giant hairy worms clinging to the boughs. Out in the country the trees are alive with leaping apes. The "monkey Temple" in Benares is infested with the dirty things - they are pests because they eat all the fruit from trees. We also saw three or four wedding pro-cessions in Jaipur. There are only two or three marriage dayse so we were fortunate. The processions are made up of elephants, horses, people etc. The groom, dressed mostly in gold cloth (made from real gold thread) rides in state upon an elephant, horse or in a baby carriage (?). The elephant is dresed in rich brocades and his ears and head painted becomingly in intricate designs. Sometimes the bridegroom is heralded by the band - a noisy affair of queer instrument; and if he is wealthy his procession contains two dancing girls who sing and dance "on the street corner" (if there were one) The groom may be three years or he may be eighteen or nineteen as the case may be. The bride doesn't figure much in an Indian wedding procession, but the following day she joined the procession and rode in a closed carriage. Some of the indian women walk under a curtain and have only peepholes to look out from. This sort of a garment adds mystery
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Tele Add " Grand " Phone No. 270. Grand Hotel. 3 Ahmedabad 192 lie all over the streets, eat out of house doors or stand in your way chewing their "cud". They seem quite sleak and fat in contrast with the people and other animals - everyone and everything seems to be underfed. The monkeys run all over building roofs, hang from towers and trees like giant hairy worms clinging to the boughs. Out in the country the trees are alive with leaping apes. The "monkey Temple" in Benares is infested with the dirty things - they are pests because they eat all the fruit from trees. We also saw three or four wedding pro-cessions in Jaipur. There are only two or three marriage dayse so we were fortunate. The processions are made up of elephants, horses, people etc. The groom, dressed mostly in gold cloth (made from real gold thread) rides in state upon an elephant, horse or in a baby carriage (?). The elephant is dresed in rich brocades and his ears and head painted becomingly in intricate designs. Sometimes the bridegroom is heralded by the band - a noisy affair of queer instrument; and if he is wealthy his procession contains two dancing girls who sing and dance "on the street corner" (if there were one) The groom may be three years or he may be eighteen or nineteen as the case may be. The bride doesn't figure much in an Indian wedding procession, but the following day she joined the procession and rode in a closed carriage. Some of the indian women walk under a curtain and have only peepholes to look out from. This sort of a garment adds mystery
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