The friendly Tamils of South India love color and 
beauty, though many are poor. Tamil women, and 
even children, all wear multi-colored bunches of 
little flowers in their dark hair, to match their qauzy 
saris of even brighter colors. 
Along the dry Coromandel Coast of South India, 
except for occasional palms and sausage trees, fire- 
wood is extremely scarce. One sees graceful Tamil 
women follow the sacred cows to pick up their fresh 
manure and paste it against the mudwalls of their 
homes to dry. The cakes will then be used for slow 
cooking fires. This deprives the worn-out soils of 
needed fertilizer. Background: a row of Palmyra 
Palms. 
In South India where the conquering Moghuls could 
not destroy them, the magnificent ancient temples 
are like pictures from a fairytale. 
These Tamil gardeners at Madras earn | Rupie 4 
Annas per day (28c) yet they work gaily and without 
complaint because there are so many who have less. 
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