even hot sun-the hotel-keeper says C SCENE IS VERY LIVELY urely Hindu city. There is a certain of Muhammadans-the working om are distinguished as wearing ir ankles with draped cloth above, ry Hindus wear very full petticoats ave a cloth thrown over their heads. tiques or bazaars seem interminable: ement, all manner of operations are different grains are being brought nd chaff or dust is got rid of in the way by throwing the grain into y, brassware, jewellery of the more beads, and cloths over-flow the the pavements and little Rajput dance along. The vast majority are Vishnu and Siva, vegetarians, and the Hindu Jains who worship their out after a different fashion to our it the Maharajah himself and the the soldier class. ecially ano s quite as much as the Muhammadans.* call was at THE SCHOOL OF ART * ere delighted with the thoroughly pracell as admirable work being done there. ; a Hindu foreman or instructor in each t: forging and tempering armour, or work; varieties of brass and carpentery carving under native guidance; breaking ering the stone-Jeypore State is famous rbles--for glazed pottery and other fine class of designers and drawing classes-all chers so far as we saw-a class of tiny ys learning English and Persian; then k in weaving, embroidery and, above all, ork for which Jeypore has always been The old Hindu whom we found laying gold and precious stones on tiny cups was entative of generations of workers in the Asked through our guide, if his son was d of a recent French traveller, M. Chevrillon, that he poor,- -a city still presenting an admirable picture of of independent states." It is still a land of feudal rmed retainers, of hermits and monasteries, full of a picturesque and diversified society. The cultivated in whose ruined and long-deserted palace of Amber, daily sacrificed to the goddess Kali, has founded at llege, a museum, a school of technical education. visitor found this education superimposed upon the treets, which seemed to him a "monde d'operette, e," with its lords and warriors, painted dogs, hunting cons, gay caparisoned horses, elephants, camels, fanciful houses, its "temples of the sun" and he winds" and " gates of rubies," its open-air shops moda and old its abild like and cheerful vas to adopt and train nephews, se, doing his duty by outside pupils. was a most successful combination l and industrial classes chiefly folmethods with teachers inheriting ars of experience; but guided and respects by European planning and rranging departments, providing ove all in instituting A SHOW-ROOM me of the work-places is all displayed dy for visitors to make their purected some specimens of brass and me away much edified by all we had ol is placed in quite a handsome comg, the Maharajah taking a special progress. We have no doubt that all see, in British territory, schools anged in which everything is being and maintain old native industries. ole to add a branch to our Technical ative arts and industries and to have nvenient show-room in Colombo, we the whole would be a success and ry little to Government. During, ly interview with Sir Arthur Haveust returned from a visit to Northern ellency referred to the industry in metals he had seen, which he wanted uced into Ceylon, and more than e would give his scheme our support. E, of course, any such proposal could port from all intelligent members of though there might be differe ught forward at the opening of Council But there was nothing and never again nce made to it. We fancy Sir Arthur iscovered how much had already been n Kandy, and was afraid to venture on d experiment, beyond what he found to ed and encouraged through the Kandy But with a Colombo Technical College e, the case of adding further Working ts to revive and maintain native indusintroduce improvements, should be a different light altogether. next taken to the EWELLER TO THE MAHARAJAH ock of local work in enamelled jewellery, in arnets, turquoises, amethysts-which are hiefly found here. The jeweller-a very "Hindu of the Jain caste" (as the guide ) had, of course, gems of many lands and es; but those peculiar to Jaipur and the lid not strike us as specially attractive. › made here-as on other occasions and in 3-to our coming from "Lanka" excited r island being readily associated with I the story of Rama and Sita. We were ere was a temple to Sita; and again, if 1 existed in Lanka; while, of course, th their King "Hanuman" of old, must ver our island. But, assuredly, we have monkeys in and around Jaipur-great olemn-looking ones--than ever we did in he head jeweller was more practical: he of t VING AS WELL AS BRASS-WORKING the head of which had travelled as far as anxious to open a business connecmbo. But for his carpets, he is for r a contract with a New York House, seemed very high, averaging R10 per t was marvellous to note the simplirity, of the working of the weavers, right little lads, one reading out from the other responding as he put in the ir thread. Such a winding through passages and up long steps-to get shments! The Maharajah's jeweller not care about appearances, nor a While we were with him and his is to succeed him, there arrived two ng, full-black-bearded Hindus- giving idea of soldier Rajputs--but they De Bankers of the same "Jain" sect, personally called with an invitation to some grand feast. They produced ended guests, and the jeweller ticked e and handed it back with the need1 in the most business-like fashion. through some of the bazaars and a arajah's tigers- some half a dozen old of a good size; but two or three had nded our first forenoon in Jaipur. oon, we were driven in one of the to see over the ccupied by His Highness and family mark In the centre of the city, and covers, MAHARAJAH'S PALACE, |