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Maharaja of Indore in the Peacock Turban.
SHOULD you ever feel inclined to
verify tales of “The Thousand
and One Persian Days.” which
usually begin with something
■ke “Once upon a time there was a ra
jah who sat upon a golden throne, and
slept upon a pearl carpet, and built ^
golden-roofed pavilion for a beautiful
queen,” you may Journey comfortably
to India, then on to Delhi and Agra,
and see the empty palaces of the Mo
gul kings, which are very little
changed save that they now rever
berate mournfully to the footfall of
western shod feet and their marble
walls have been mellowed to the tint
•f old Ivory by 250 years of Indian
an. 80 writes Eleanor Maddock hi
Asia.
Ton may walk among the colon
nades of the great Hall of Audience
Inlaid with flowers of lapis lazuli.
Jade, topaz and carnellan that seem to
grow upon the walls, and burst Into
bloom on the very spot where rested
Shah Jahan's "Peacock Throne,” a
glorified four poster bedstead of solid
gold with a pearl-fringed canopy upon
which the emperor sat dally to dis
pense justice, his turban ablaze with
diamonds and his flowered tunic al
most hidden by ropes of pearls. Be
hind him sapphires, rubles and emer
alds glowed from the outspread tails
of two peacocks and over his head
hung a parrot wrought from a single
emerald, holding In Its beak the Koh-1
nor diamond.
Ton may enter the great silent ha
rem without hindrance and pause be
fore the lace-like marble screen which
overlooks the cool scented garden,
heavy with the perfume of orange and
mango blossoms. A staircase‘leads
from the garden to Queen Arjamund’s
golden-roofed pavilion and rose water
bath—all a solid mass of exquisite In
lay—and In the thickness of the mar
ble walls are cunningly contrived
apertures Just large enough to admit a
woman’s hand, where the queen kept
her Jewels at night.
It Is a long time since Shah Jahan’s'
empress was laid under the swelling
dome of the Taj Mahal across the Riv
er Jumna, yet her personality lingers
In her boudoir of fretwork arches,
where she bedecked herself with Jew
els more dazzling and splendid than
any woman has ever worn before or
■Ince.
Pearl Carpet Realty Exists.
But that such a thing as a pearl car
pet could exist outside fiction would
be a tax on credulity, did It not actually
hang on the wall of the Nuzerbagh
palace at Baroda. This relic of a past
era of bizarre extravagance Is de
scribed as 8x6 feet. Three large dia
mond flower patterns form the center;
82 smaller diamond patterns, and 1,260
rubles, 568 emeralds In flower designs
form the border; the remaining por
tion of the carpet Is composed of seed
pearls, although In places along the
outer edge they have been removed
and replaced by glass beads. A more
absurd and useless object, apart from
Its monetary value, would be hard to
find even In India. But, if we hark
back to the time before the rich gem
mines, the extensive pearl fisheries on
the west coast and on the Island of
Ceylon had been exhausted, when they
were yielding their treasure by the
bucketful. It takes little effort of the
Imagination to picture an eastern po
tentate, laden with Jewels until he
eould scarcely sustain their weight, re
clining on the Peacock throne before
the pearl carpet.
Such treasure, being In Itself Inde
structible, has descended through the
dynasties of the Hindu kings, and
later of the Mogul emperors, when
laden caravans from Persia were con
stantly adding to their wealth. So
that the Jewels owned today by the ra
jas and ruling princes of Indio, esti
vated not by numbers, hut by ineas
uro, are no myth, but Just plain fact.
The Delhi Loot.
The Nnwab of Bahawalpur owns a
portion of what Is known as the “Del
hi loot,” which, as a whole, once con
stituted the Mf»gul emperors' crown
Jewels, filched by them In turn from
the Hindus and their ancient temples.
So It was fitting that some should have
found their way back. History re
cords that every gem In the almost
fabulous collection has been figura
tively, If not literally, drenched In
blood. There are ornaments for the
front of turbans; caps to cover the
bead fashioned entirely of Jewels, with
Just enough gold filigree to hold them
In place; ropes of pearls, rubles and
emeralds; numberless rings, bracelets
and anklets for women. There Is a
wonderful diamond necklace called
the “Garland of Delight" the largest
stone of which measures one and one
quarter Inches In diameter.
The “Garland of flellght" has
blazed an Imperishable trail through
the history of eastern romance, which
Is ever akin to tragedy. It was worn
secretly for a brief span by Gul Saffa,
the “White Rose," a beautiful dancing
girl whose sto-y bears repeating. She
was the mistress of Dara, who was a
brother of Emperor Anrangzeb, the
last of the four great Moguls. Dara
and Aurangzeb, sons of Shah Jahan,
were both ambitious to sit on the Pea
cock throne. But Aurangzeb, nick
named the “White Snake” because he
was born with a curiously white skin,
after he had removed all obstacles, In
cluding his brother, managed eventual
ly to coll himself on the cushions of
the Peacock throne. After Dara’s death
the emperor seized his brother's pos
sessions, Including the “Garland of
Delight" and Gul Saffa. She was said
to have In her veins blood of the Hin
du Rajputs, the race long noted for
the beauty and chastity of Its women.
So, when Aurangzeb demanded her,
she said she belonged to Dara and
asked on what grounds he claimed
her. The emperor replied that her
long tresses had bound him as In a
net That night a messenger brought
a package to him, wherein lay coll
upon coll of perfumed hair. Again
the emperor sent back word that It
was the moon-like beauty of her face
that had enthralled him. Then the
girl took a knife and slashed her face
until It was hideous to look upon. She
wiped the blood from It with a cloth
and sent It to the emperor, as a sign
that nothing was left of the beauty he
had desired. He never troubled Gul
Saffa again, who soon died of grief for
urr luvcr.
The native state of Baroda la close
to the Itnnn of Cutch, and the state of
Indore had easy access to it. In Its
qnlet twisting waterways lay rich
pearl oyster beds, which, In the old
days, were Infested with pirates.
Doubtless the ancestors of the present
highnesses of these states got their
share of “first pickings,” since the
Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda has the
largest collection of pearls In India,
although the handsome young Maha
raja Holkar of Indore runs him a
dose second. I sat near this resplen
dent personage once at a Royal Hin
du wedding, close enough to hear a
pleasant little tinkling sonnd when he
moved, for he was wearing his “pearl
scarf,”, which he values at a crore of
rupees ($3,300,000). It Is composed of
nine strands of cream luster pearls as
large as marrowfat peas, that hang
from a thick pearl tassel over one
shoulder, across his chest to Ms hips,
scarf fashion. Eighteen great pearla,
each with a carat diamond set Into It,
form the clasp of the neckpiece.
Think of the vandalism of drilling
them I Maharaja Holkar has Inherit
ed his father’s peacock turban, anoth
er marvel of pearla, rubles, emeralds
and diamonds.
WAR SHORN OF ITS GLAMOR
Modem Painter*, Who Them**lv**
Have Looked on Death, Depict
Slaughter at It Really la.
For the first time In history war Is
painted as It la. The varniah, the
glory has been taken off. It stands
out In all Its sodden horror. The
opening of the Salon des Artistes
Franeals, filled for the most part with
canvases of men who have been In the
trenches, show an astonishing ab
sence of battle scenes.
Most of the painters have sought In
spiration elsewhere. Those who have
found It In the war have rendered
only the dull misery of life at the
front.
They show no clash of armies,
these painters who have bdhn through
the war, no flourish of trumpets, not
even fragments of general fights. But
war as It Is. A soldier, limping toward
the lines, exhausted, despairing, hold
ing up to his mouth a handkerchief,
dark as a clot of blood Is what one
sees. The face Is distorted with suf
fering, and the uniform Is of that In
describable color which comes only
from continual exposure to the ele
ments. Carry paints a blinded sol diet1
guided towards a relief station, Michel
and Pouzargues Rhow water-flooded
trenches.
If governments In the future wish
more pleasant and cheerful war
scenes they will have to call on art
ists who stayed away from the front
Those who served were too close to
death to paint anything but the truth.
JUST REPETITION OF HISTORY
Fad* of the Present Day Had Their
Counterpart in the Fashion*
of Years Ago.
Nothing Is new under the sun, not
even the newest and most up-to-date
girl striker of the present day, with
bobbed hair, nor even the employer
who complains of the fashion. A writ
er in “Blackwood" has discovered that
In the time of James I, this fashion
was affected by women who donned
the doublet and hose, which aroused
the ire of an unknown author, who in
1620 lampooned the women of the day
for so dressing, and Instead of keeping
to “the modest attire of the comely
hood, cowl or coif and handsome dress
and klrchlfs” betook themselves to the
“cloudy, ruffianly, broad-brimmed hat
and wanton feathers.” Nor was this
all. The extravagance of her costume,
with the "French doublet” which took
the place of a “concelled straight
gown” was not In the author’s eye the
deadliest offense; Incredible though It
seems, she would “out and cut her
hair to the despicable fashion of the
Puritan." So the bobbed hair come*
as a reminiscence of the modem maid
en's forebear* In the Covenanter*1
time. ,
Selling Shoes Under Difficulties.
Dean B. Stover, southern salesman
for a Brockton shoe concern, got an
order under difficulties while out oo
his last trip. He made a North Car
olina town and hired a taxi to take
him to a township 15 miles away to
which few trains ran. Arriving on
the outskirts of his destination he
found that the heavy floods had
washed away the only bridge. Mr.
Stover decided the only thing to do
was to turn back until the taxi driver
suggested that there might be a boat
somewhere around. Mr. Stover hunt
ed along the banks until he found a
flat bottomed skiff and he rowed
across. He Interviewed his customer,
paddled him back to the other shore,
requisitioned a small wharf and laid
his Ramples out on the roadside. And
he made the sale.—Brockton Knter
prise.
All Blush Now.
Playwright Eugene Walter apropos
of a New York publisher’s conviction
for publishing a supposedly obscene
novel said:
“The novel In question Is harmless,
and the people who brought about
that poor publisher's conviction were
as silly as—as—well as It reminds
me of a story.
“The lady principal of a famous
girls’ school t'ook her older pupils
to the Metropolitan museum one day.
Entering the hall of sculptures, the
principal said, as she looked up from
her catalogue:
“ ‘Attention, young ladles! When
we come to the next statue but one
you will all blush.'”
Newlyweds to Tents.
A honeymoon colony, believed to be
the first of Its kind in England, has
been established In a meadow near
Eamham, Surrey. At the edge of a
certain wood half a dozen tents may
be seen. They are the homes of the
fonr brides and their husbands who,
rendered homeless by the house short
age, have begun their married life In
the open air.
The colony Is likely to be still fur
ther enlarged, for several other cou
ples have applied for admission.—
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