India, Its Life And Thought
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The love of jewellery is a marked passion with the women of India. Millions of money are expended every year in the manufacture of female adorn- ments. And in this work there are more than four hundred thousand goldsmiths constantly employed.
The wealth of a family, especially among the middle classes, is largely measured by the amount of jew- ellery which the women of the household possess.
266 INDIA: ITS LIFE AND THOUGHT No one would grudge to these women a certain amount of these personal or...naments ; but when it becomes a mad craze to convert all their wealth into such vanity, and thus to render their wealth entirely unremunerative, it becomes a serious matter.
The loading down of a woman or a girl with precious stones, gold, silver, or cheaper metal, adds anything but attractiveness to the person. It gives them a gross conception of personal attractiveness as well as a monetary value to beauty, which degrades the ideals of the country. When a woman's ears and nose, the crown of her head, her neck, arms, hands, waist, ankles, and toes are made to sparkle with the wealth of the family, and to bear down the frail body of the proud victim, they cease entirely to set off the personal beauty of the woman herself, and become rather a counter attraction ; and she is admired not for what she is, but for what she carries.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The love of jewellery is a marked passion with the women of India. Millions of money are expended every year in the manufacture of female adorn- ments. And in this work there are more than four hundred thousand goldsmiths constantly employed.
The wealth of a family, especially among the middle classes, is largely measured by the amount of jew- ellery which the women of the household possess.
266 INDIA: ITS LIFE AND THOUGHT No one would grudge to these women a certain amount of these personal or...naments ; but when it becomes a mad craze to convert all their wealth into such vanity, and thus to render their wealth entirely unremunerative, it becomes a serious matter.
The loading down of a woman or a girl with precious stones, gold, silver, or cheaper metal, adds anything but attractiveness to the person. It gives them a gross conception of personal attractiveness as well as a monetary value to beauty, which degrades the ideals of the country. When a woman's ears and nose, the crown of her head, her neck, arms, hands, waist, ankles, and toes are made to sparkle with the wealth of the family, and to bear down the frail body of the proud victim, they cease entirely to set off the personal beauty of the woman herself, and become rather a counter attraction ; and she is admired not for what she is, but for what she carries.
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