[Original caption] INDIA, the land of adventure, of princely wealth and abject poverty, is inhabited by many different tribes, now rapidly becoming civilized under British rule. The women are tall and slender; gentle, timid, loving creatures, painfully desirous of education, which was denied to them until mission schools had been established.
Hindoo girls are often betrothed during infancy and are married at the age of twelve.
They have dark skins and regular features, a bright, intelligent expression, and fine, straight, black hair.
Their usual dress consists of loose, gauze trousers, with a short frock of some bright-colored silk or muslin girded by a wide sash. Ears, neck, hands and feet ar loaded with ornaments, sometimes of great value.
The chief office of The Singer Manufacturing Co. in India is in Bombay, having more than fifty subordinate offices scattered all over the Empire. The same liberal system of selling is maintained here as elsewhere, and the increasing use of the sewing machine in a country whose inhabitants are so intensely conservative, is one of the strongest indications of the silent change caused in the habits of people through western intercourse.
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