It Is Difficult Under This
Sloping Roof To Get A Peep At The Interior, But My Efforts Have Been
Rewarded By The Sight Of Floors Cleanly Swept, Bedsteads, And Those
Articles Of Furniture Which Can Scarcely Be Dispensed With Without
Suffering Considerable Privation.
As yet, I have not been able to discover to what class of persons
these kind of dwellings belong,
But I suspect that they are tenanted
chiefly by Parsees, a money-getting and luxurious race of people,
who are sufficiently industrious to exert themselves, with great
perseverance, to gain a living, and have the spirit to spend their
money upon the comforts and conveniences of life. They are accused of
extravagance in this particular, and perhaps do occasionally exceed;
but, generally speaking, their style of living is more commendable
than that of the Hindus, who carry their thrift and parsimony to an
outrageous height.
Near their houses very graceful groups of Parsee women and children
are to be seen, who, upon the encouragement afforded by a smile,
salaam and smile again, apparently well-pleased with the notice
taken of them by English ladies. These women are always well-dressed,
and most frequently in silk of bright and beautiful colours, worn as
a saree over a tight-fitting bodice of some gay material. The manner
in which the saree is folded over the head and limbs renders it a
graceful and becoming costume, which might be imitated with great
propriety by the Hindu women, who certainly do not appear to study
either taste or delicacy in their mode of dress.
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