The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1900, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. : A 11 TVhen the rest is consumed the feet are but as a physician mv lit- n India 414 submitted to the dying embers, which are not bring me 1 ch with any of ¢ incapable of wholly destroying them. At gavety. Outside of the hospital my pri- Jast the fire burns out and the ashes are vate practice was in the zemama houses, collected in a large wooden box. The bits which Is the name for the homes of the of bone—relics of the last part burned in purdah ladies or Mohammedans of high the dying flames—are collected and put caste. In the zenana are four, five, six into a small vase. or more wives, but vy each have thetr Rich Hindoos take this vase to scatter own apar nts with sey e entrances, its contents on the Ganges, usually walt- Jike so many flats, as it were, and never ing for ane of the great religious holidays see each other. upon which to perform the hallowed act. ¢ never permitted to gaze on any When the relatives of the dead are not man save their husbands. and lead idle, able to afford this pllzrimage they enclose ol Bven With » ook df atiendants the vase in a cloth and hang it UPOR @ The innovation of women phys tree, with the dead one's name upon it. wr ught at reitef to .them until it can be taken to the Ganges by were denied e wealthy mourners of other dead, or by gjeiar a plous pligrim journeying to this sac: abl spot. The box containing the mixed-uD |ives ashes of the dead and of firewood IS that these el v povie emptied into the water. St . Sinls The Suvorte The Parsees, which means Persians, have no disposition to question ab. have the most pecullar way of getting rid 4t “otiidiSe._ovorld of Which. th of their dead. The Parsees have lived in poihing. Indla many centurles and are a ve TE 0 B aeviinnl TAISIeITE te sadsty By Dr. Josephine Eltzholtz. rs of my life in were the forerunners of the epidemic in India. Beware of the rats in the holds of vessels that have sailed from infected If they crawl ashore they may plague in their trail. he conditions are more favorable in India for the plague than in almost any other place. But the rest of the world should look well to the ourice of preven- tion, for # pound of absolute cure has not vet been discovered for this plague that has extended its scope over a quarter of Zanzibar, Mauritius, rn Africa, to Man- sia. Now it is seek- reign of terror in Ha- ar- =m language 1 was hem about their with very few exceptions Wherever you go, wherever you turn in India vou cannot escape the plague ymbay, Poona, Sharapoor or \ are plague centers, or in cted district, “plague” is which t conversation 1e precautions make rafl- ries of medical st s \”, are turned out of wealthy class of natives. T'h"!v’ 4,'1"1‘: to read how the Lady Dufferin hospitals . nt almost every daylight and tvate progressive ideas and per- go; pative women were establt Some- ace nd at night jou mit thelr widows. to marry again, unlike yjng |jke ten years ago an enlightened gers he strange hands fum- the Hindo women, Who must gose native woman begged a returning English f hlankets: to take 3our suicide and are otherwise degraded When .y uiic 't present to Queen Victorla. with their husbands die. assu rances of her loyalty. a magnific o aid b ratisine ai Fire 1s sacred in the belief of the Par- | capeqpho e gellag i ok g - 3 itk 5 peg i .].n;'_' et iy sees, therefore they destroy their dead “““E' ]“,d"h"_'h..__gl;l‘\ ""(‘;r‘ I"r‘w”‘” g Th g Y e s 27 without burning the bodfes. [nstead they 1 India for hospitals ) ¢ e of the boms feed e o D e e o Paron When.Lord Dufferin was appolated Vice- 5 ; it lmbieied e have bullt_for thelr dead roy to India the Queen asked Lady D & 3 these customs is more When a Parsee dics the body is carried ferin to_ look into_the need of hospi the natives than the plague it- Toor. where every barsee for native women. Lady Dufferfn did not ¥ Shesazound Jnow. WikyS every “® have to stay many weeks in India to have her sympathy aroused. The result was the establishment of many hospitals . for women, all named after her. The " ent society for the Lady Dufferin hospi- tals is ip Calcutta. The weaithy natives / 5 oy POE2— g B o e 5O z cards. He found 5 B =0 | the house, but upon L AGUE PED %\ self. Thelr philosophy teaches them o AR o ZRGNE SEARCH PaRTIES ENCAM N o neither to dread sickness nor fear d the players. It HE FooT OF THE The hc ©0-house visits of the officials, was a dead plague victim, who had been LY o . Ot of the sick, and the inocula- propped up at the table. Another time an fi:l‘h' ‘.“"f”]-- ""‘hf":‘" :\”‘l"’]‘v" f";'h'"‘Ynz" - nd. or their removal to the old woman in a most lifelike attitude, her e e Fue ey break down found to have been dead several hours. : omen physic ) el o e il S A 1,,?,,‘,‘3,1’3;‘,:'m,.(;"‘rv. val the master had been stricken with must be borne and every Parsee must lic One talks in o late. sitidys 1 ¢ = ¥ 2 15 "The iffar] At it 1 the plague, had died, the Interior had been in death. The friends and relatives pray % Nock to the plagiow: SA4 1% t5 66 (- panied 1 death. 1g. The pity and suffering of it all could P ? ea cmployed tc never be described. During the cold fumigated and the exterior was being outside the door where it lles. Then it is ble to get away from it when writ- w bype months the is at its worst. Death whitewashed. turned over to menials, who carry it to But let the pnotographs tell the rest. s ? the X Saria Nadie ~Ani The Hindoos take the bodies of their the Towers of Silence, strip it of its rai- give adme idea Gf *h€ ravages of was a da y come the plague victims. Kk plag ims placed in Orie’ snofnix s 89 o tholue A dead to the plague fires and only leave ment and cArry it to the grating, whers that dread visitor—the plague. . the family might stopped to s to the master. At 5 in their dead when nothing but the ashes it becomes the prey of the hideous vul- e e dead and their house escape fu- the afterncon I passed again and found remain, and not even then if they have tures. 2 On one occasion an official en- this same DEIRE Syl wnabad Ty the means to go to the Ganges with There are five of these towers in Bom- WHAT ROYALTY MUST DO. g about eve house saw five men seated the health In that short Int these precious relics. bay—ene for sulcides, one for the rich who e The laborers prepare the funeral pyre can afford the luxury of a private place If you were a mere monarch instead of and then the parents or other relatives for their dead, and the others for the gen- 1g an American 1ift the body upon the pyre. When a man eral Parisee public. Only the men who may not have the fact of being the latter or woman dies and leaves no kin the ser- place the bodies on the tower gratings can Impressed upon you particularly except vants perform this final office. For a pe- ever enter the towers. These men are lit- arqund election time), you would not ™ in culiar reason the pyre is made shorter tle better than outcasts and live by nds or to slap veur than the body to be consumed with it. selves without the acquaintance of f friends on the back or to say you do now. You wouldn't hav: that kind. You would have to salute e This is In ordér that the lower extremi- ship of their employers or coreligion: ties shall not be wholly destroyed by the The buildings themselve intense heat which does away with the in the midst of a lov person according to rules laid down pair rest of the body. gross vultures destroy 3 fully by men who have studied th Towers of Silence. things out for you and your brother mon. Enough of the death rites of India. I arc should like tp tell of less grewsome scenes, It u were the Emperor of Austria sign of your friendship that could give to an ordinary mortal wou be to bend your head slightly and to smile faintly. You might give your hand to ¢ er sovereigns or to Ministers or particu- larly intimate friends, but ceremony pre- scribes that if you de such a rare th! you must merely Jay your august fingcrs into their trembling palms and then witt draw them. If they act after the cere- mony as if they had been frostbitten yoa may be sure that you have lived up to the traditions of the imperial house. The Czar is even worse off than is the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. He is per- mitied to give bis hand to rulers only. But he has a great comfort. It is not only his prerogative, but his duty, aceording o court etiguette, to kiss his ‘cousins, and as most of his cousins are females, and mor- ganatic at that (morganatic cousins ger- erally are prettier than the other kind), y that I3 the reverse of un- pleasant. There terribie (rouble amcng the old women of the court when President Faure of was on the to make his etersburg. “He is a ruler,” our august master e hand.” “No 2 shocked bevend measure H's feiher was only a person in trade. and he himself was only a tanner! Our Czar can- not shake such a creature by the hand: ' Worse still. some mischief-maker fgur- out that since almost every ruler Europe was the Czar's cousin. or sorne- thing so near it that the was the proper thing, he nob'e and jealous Frerch nation would be owtraged and insulted”f the Czar did not kiss Felix Faure. Th's suggestion almost caused bloodshed in St. Petersburg. The folk who- held that the Holy Czar could not even shake Felix by the honest flipper without sending rthe holy empire crashing iInto soc'al runs really were the only logical ones in tre whole mess. But es they failed to offer any tenable suggestion as to what the Czar should do, and as it was plain that the Czar bad to do something and couid rot content himself with saying simpiy “Howdy, Felix!" or “Sit down and maxa yourself at home. How's all the folks, and especially Dreyfus?™' they were over- tuled. But no une knew just what the Holy Czar ought to do. and M. Faure ar rived before the important matter was cided. The Czar settled it ofthand. e 2 embraced Faure and pressed him .o his breast—but he didn’t shake his hand nor did he kiss him. And everybody was bappy. 2 iin 4 MTEIN A PLAGUE SEARCH PARTY WHITEWADH - ING HOUSES -- POOHNE CiTY « ¢