A GROUP OF SINGHALESE.—The Singhalese seemed to have a good time of it at the World’s Fair. Their country was well represented by a charming building and fine exhibit of the products of the land, and the people themselves, in family groups, had both occupation and amusement. The old hymn to the effect that “Ceylon’s lovely Isle” is a place where nature has done pretty well and “only man is vile” seemed hardly justified by the appearance or the actions of the Singhalese, who were a particularly quiet and well behaved little community. In the Ceylon Building the tea of that country was exploited, cups of the beverage being sold to visitors, and was handled by the natives who were particularly deft and pleasant servitors. Tea has rarely been enjoyed under conditions more in tone with the character of that seductive beverage than it was in the Ceylon Building. In the illustration the men are not garbed at all alike, one retaining the full dress of his native country while the other seems to have become Americanized with the exception of his turban. When bareheaded and at work in the building, the men presented a singular appearance with the great combs stuck upright in the hair at the back of their heads, after the fashion of our own grandmothers. The combs were the admiration and envy of lady visitors, some of those ornaments being beautifully made and embellished with jewels.

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