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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



PLAYING AN ANCIENT GAME AMID THE HIMALAYAS 



Football, developed centuries ago in many parts of the world, is now being introduced to the 

 turbaned sons of Kashmir mountaineers. 



enough English and mathematics to pass 

 the state examinations for civil-service 

 employment. 



This opportunist attitude on the part 

 of physically lazy students caused this 

 young Englishman to feel that perhaps 

 English, mathematics, and other mental 

 exercises were not the peculiar gifts that 

 the West had to offer the East. 



Here were people whose ancestors had 

 scorned gymnastics and all manual or 

 physical labor for thousands of years. 

 Here were people who, with all their 

 age-old philosophy, did not know that 



physical courage, reserve, and self-re- 

 straint, bred in the muscle and bone, 

 would do more than fanaticism to make 

 them strong, 

 this ; and radical methods were used 



But the Anglo-Saxon knew 



to 



teach the all-wise Kashmiri something he 

 did not know. 



NO LONGER RICE CHRISTIANS 



Today the school has 600 pupils ; but 

 their number is of relatively small im- 

 portance compared with the transforma- 

 tion in oriental character which has been 

 effected. 



