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Show ‘meat were displayed, open to the foul dust. The poorer classes of merchant sat in the loose soil, with their numerous wares from Japan spread befor them. There were no beggars, for in Kalpi a stranger was seldom seen, an it would have been useless to beg from a villager who himself was destitute There was no grass or pasture in or around Kalpi, and the bullocks, goats and cows dug in the soot-like dust with the hope that they might discove a few grains of com or some dry morsel of fo It Bocazenyemnia s e e Kmddm, the owne of the papermaking school and one of the well-to-d lage As we sat cross-legged upon the floor of the small, lu\u-huxll mabnshmcm piled high with disorderly bales of cloth i Khadda told us of his devotion to handmade paper and handwoven Sl I'm' like Mahatma Gandhi, Mr. Khaddari thought that the cultivation of thes two eraft g0 a long way toward the frczudcm of India. The sho vy i proprictor of an India t never moves f ‘his dais, produce ter bundles of woole who i tur cloth fmm thsl\elves showe them t his visitors an laid the Som of th cloth, like much of the Indian paper, was extremely coarse and heavy, an X doubted if an American tailor would work with t. Mr. Khaddari and hi helpers were muc interested in my own American handwoven clothing and asked me no end of qumum regarding the weavingof cloth i United States. During my travels in India I found the average native merchan t be fa mor intereste i the custom an prices of th Unite States th Britain In the village of Kalpi there were of course no hotels nor any plac where an Occidenta traveller could sleep, and there was no food available but I had my own water, milk chocolate, malted milk tablets, and whol wheat biscuits. The sleeping, however, presented a problem. The thoughtful station-master again came to my rescue and suggested that my ow Digtal image © 2005 MarriottLibrary Universit of Utah, All rihts reserved |