An Indian Humorist

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 52, 30 December 1909, Page 2063

An Indian Humorist

r ';- \"" /!iJII/ jl, nil 1 ' '' • ''• ' J ''' " ' )IJ'' /'''Mill j ',-- j! Mi 't'li.^ij )J () The rollowin^^accojjUi-ji , the idiosyncrasies r ol: r Bombay^ is taken''from a'rac.y sirti'cle^byj ,P-.,'A. GKajswalla,^entitled.. 'Stray Thoughts , oi^ Bombay,' \yhioli appeared in' a recent, issue of the Deccdn^ Colfeg'e Quarterly."' We give the!'ex'tra'c.t as reprinted iii our contemporaryl, the Bombay Examiner.' fThe 'newest 'epidemic, in Bombay' '.is^ that''of motor-* cars. Safety from -tliese does iioi 'lie"in linocrllat'ibn',''biit! ' in the gutters. In f Bombay motor-car drivers have full and" unrestricted powers to 1 run over^'p'edestrians^ and'killing in this manner is no'murder 1 ' I f ,remember"!6ne'"of J monstrosities trying its! tru^s-' on "me;' But I was' Wo' agile 1 for'it— -I dodged it and leap(t into 'tlie' 'nearest V gutter^ stepping triumphantly on terra firma' after ii' 'rushed! n pas^ me r the clia'uffe'ur' looking back'o'-^er his snoufdeif at me'as 7 much as to" say ie a pjiy' •you'! ))V'' 1 You'l^ili" find victorias cnase'd by yictor'ias ahd'b'otn chased' "by th'p above-fnamed' motors', 'riot' to'/mention"'{lie tram-cars which' serve to knock down aiiybqdy thai; may '^h'ave i 'been iiiacS-' ve'rtehtly overlooked by the first'two.'' 1 'For' pedestrians,,' therefore, it is a caseJ-oLithe-^suxvixalo.of the fittest;'and according to the now well-established laws of evolution and development, the next s generation ofj"Bombayites will be provided with four eyes-"_in";bhejr fieads^jeach at right angles to the other—which' arrangement will enable them to survey their surroundings" "from" "any"giveli position. *vjaovsff jr*i'jd ml f "' i Bombayites"h!aveV,the eaniiie gift 1 of-smellV' o Some portion's of'th^'toAvn are su6h &''bewildering jangle^ of siree'ts 7 and:) bye4anes"fcHat' the,' ho'usW'a're Hke);pigeon-hole'sV' Jl and J' were it .not f'6ri^hisHustinLctiye'! ss t e r nse'lof')smeir no mother's' son 1 would "Be able 'to'g'eiJ t)ack"to 'Hiy^dpm Whe'^'oiice flie'tfatt" left it .-vuljrn'rt (i a\-~rj Jii fill 1 io 'There are also too many men in Bombay.^s^A.jS^mjples and natural sway of,remedying r this superfluity^.would be for thf^V^'W^om^anpVb.or-la'ntse I^;^ vlc^by^Avlifch'^ni^oa^^M^n'ge^ WW'tfa^otffc to' 5 s^ik d!&Ufi n^repial nd l bM ini^ea^'^^WJspplatf wSSlff'U^f tfe-MJJaiiyf^^k aSWfem'biV lth&r'i®&* ment^mst 0 )'ui(-l^' >■<■> »n>?/ ixjji>-ut-) /j ji riJx'w "riorn asm ,hqi3 !«•> i v/o/i' -uti io /J.-'-'f-a oxlT .jnenro^e-iijuony ;{ 7r«%Bfib'a^ is &mkdvl^ha^i&f/^SafS%W b^oiT'^ii^ g-p<}w-%^r<^l^rbfiaufc'oFo'&etoaurb^-ifer:w3aiik 8 $bm\ asi Hsste t^^nkn^s^hiwk^^^i^ a^ii'edmr, "ftsum; 8 olP.W^nS&y^d^tioi yWf'tettf^^halloe^g l^^ USS? RgrWaTVWaae^gftel ifo fi pu^^e^in'^om^ lfay.;J"sa|i¥ te^riOTin^e^^rygi; a*^ou'tfyotf I+ canfed'm^;lur iSiane?u^Mll^^etoi^a? mode of attractin^^mm^pA^^ff^^ffi^'y^^enSHrnk J!ydur o ty^°^lifee^gfcau^ccto'i^Briiaarfe lohi«^lsnlsn'lSiick timel! tn'u!l; 71iiss rffiss 1 f^fi^ir^Oti 1 lo6Wss%n--;6f pentine noise every man, woman, and chila9sn' "tlie 0 !6ree4/' will, by a well understood rul^*nTOakft l one,cpnwJete rr.otatiQnr on their heels, and you, will tnus.be enabled, to communicate wi^wnonfWu'pie^e.l^" &™&™ oiI«».Mi»D ewrtoc'J