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that a southerner was obliged to quit from a house which he 
occupied at Rajahmundry, because the lady refused to have 
her menses cloth washed by a washerwoman. And I know of 
a case when a southern lady was applauded by her landlady 
when she adopted the custom of the north in her own case, by 
putting her cloth to a washerwoman. Such is the rigidity of 
custom in some of its aspects. 
9. I shall briefly allude to one item in wearing jewels. 
The Telugu Sumangalis, whatever their age, have a silver 
discard it even when they are twenty or twenty-five. I have 
seen aged Telugu Sumangalis wearing anklets in their legs. 
10. Even peasants in the Telugu parts, especially at 
Rajahmundry, sleep only on some sort of cot or other. Rope 
cots are very cheap and plentiful. In the Tinnevelly Dis- 
trict palmyras are found in great numbers and_ still the 
cots, the mattress of which is spun with the palmyra-leaf- 
stem fibre, are considered generally as a luxury. And only 
tich and upper middle class people possess cots and, even 
then, only for males. In Rajahmundry one can see every one 
ofa family, male and female. being provided with a cot. as 
- [shall close my paper with one other characteristic 
difference. This time it is as regards the treatment of a 
patient dangerously ill. In Rajahmundry and other places if 
a patient is in his or her critical stages, he or she is removed 
to the street, or roatl side, in front of the house even before 
the life of the individual is out. Recently an intimate friend 
of mine saw with his own eyes a newborn babe, scarcely 
twenty days old, exposed to the chill of the night on the out- 
side because it was about to die. Another friend saw an 
enclosure on the King’s highway wherein a man, in his dying 
moments, was seen lying. A Tamilian sub-magistrate’s wife 
Was seriously ill some time back and it appears the landlord 
ot his house visited his tenant’s house every day and implored 
him to remove the patient to the street outside. It was only 
his magisterial authority which made him do otherwise. In 
the Tamil country. even after the expiry of life, the bodies are 
removing the body to the cremation ground. With such 
customs when Tamilians in Government service are to 
the Telugu parts, they feel a good deal of inconvenience with 
usual custom: but why should the bod 
the person is dead, exposed to the inclemencies of the weather 
nd the glare of the public? Possibly only superstition wil] 
account for this. 
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