Traveler's and Writer's Sourcebook, circa January-February 1911, Number 3

Mrs. Michael 7

Doorkeeper high caste won't eat anything tchd by [us?] Pkg Tea, ^(condensed) milk, & sugr won't tk to [carriage?] (all frm [store?])

"memsahib, ct tk"

Durwan (Dkpr) ^(Head) No. 1 boy

Lost place rather than pick [crossed out word] take [end crossed out word] up slipper frm flr

(Social man below him)

Diswasher, ck, [bearer?] won't pk up anythg off floor call sweepers wont

8

[crossed out word] wont [end crossed out word] tch washbowl or pick up thread

Can't get "general servant" Cooks called "mugs"

High cls Brahman won't tch Cook

Indn join Xtn class [lose?] caste

"Sweeper" class (no caste) spcl servt for swpg

hideous noises: ^(hired mourners) funerals [advtg?] [???]

1 mourner for 1 anna from any place ^(to) burning ghat

9

Mrs. Michael

"Babu": clerk

"Purdah": any sort of veiling

was at wedding ^(at zoo) 11 years girl; boy 12 or 13 9 years old;

girl behind purdah; dsn't see her husband goes home till maturity

Reason girl baby's regrtd father must pay so much for husband -dowry-

Amng poorer castes mortgages his wages as long as he lives to pay dowries

10

Mrs. Michael

Marrgs [certed?] bf birth

Girl may never hv seen husband: but must sfr lflg afflctn as widow

[Lit?] girl of 13; tkn to mo-inlaw's home; cook rice, burnt it,

Woman carrying brk & mortar 3 to 4 stories nkd babies tied out to stk (6 to 8¢) 3 to 4 annas a day

Babus: is in/[gratid?] wdws to keep wives [Drive?] with [crossed out word] boys [end crossed out word] ^(sons), but never daughters

Mrs. Michael

Eurasians - no status Hated by Indns; desped by Epns

Mulatto: recd by [crossed out word] [illegible] [end crossed out word] one race

ambitionless, lazy, listless

Subjected to peclr tmptns

English many Eurasian women ([on q prmsc?]) "I fl such a contempt for them evy tm I see them"

Ctn places India men & w nkd Chd mrgs: overpopn & degeneracy: weak race

[right margin text] (crpls & Infants) [end right margin text]

woman of 35 lk [crossed out word] of [end crossed out word] lk 75

women: nose cut off (psctd) infidelity