“The fact is, we all require a little looking after.”

Advisable to give manager an interest in the estate.  Managers for
    estates in Mysore require to be very carefully selected.

A clear understanding essential between proprietor and manager.

Powers of attorney should be carefully drawn up.  The proprietor
    entirely in the power of the manager.

The value of the eye of the owner.  Every estate should have an
    information book.

Points to be entered in the information book.

Hints to managers.

CHAPTER XVIII.—­THE PLANTER’S BUNGALOW AND THE AMENITIES OF AN ESTATE.

The best form of bungalow.

The kitchen arrangements.

The aspect of the bungalow and ground around it.

Cash value of the amenities of an estate.  The flower garden.

Building materials.

How to keep out white ants.

Coolie lines.

Tree planting for timber and fuel.

Precautions for the conservation of health.

Hints as regards food, and the table generally.

Suggestions as to books and newspapers.

Importance of having some interesting pursuit.

The minor amenities of an estate.

The conditions of a planter’s life now ameliorated by railways.

Mysore out of the reach of House of Commons faddists.  Advantages
    of this.

CHAPTER XIX.—­THE INDIAN SILVER QUESTION.

On June 26th, 1893, gold standard introduced and mints closed to
    free coinage of silver.

Movement originated in India by the servants of Government, and
    from no other class whatever.

Some merchants afterwards joined in the agitation.  Gold to be
    received at the mints at a ratio of 1s. 4d. per rupee. 
    Sovereigns in payment of sums due to Government to be received at
    the rate of fifteen rupees a sovereign.

Cash effects of the measure.  For benefit of English reader
    figures given in pounds sterling, a rupee taken at 2s.  Rupee
    prices little changed in India, China and Ceylon.  Difficulty of
    forming exact estimates as to this.

If gold value of silver can be forced up from 1s. 3d. to 1s.
    4d., Indian Government will gain about one and a half million
    sterling on its home remittances, and the people lose about seven
    millions on their exports.

The Indian Finance Minister contemplates a rise to 1s. 6d.
    eventually.

A rise to 1s. 6d. would give the Exchequer a gain on home
    remittances of L4,500,000 and entail on the people a loss
    L21,000,000, equal to a tax of 21 per cent. on the exports of
    India.  Effects of this on the producers.

The producers of coffee in Mysore alone would lose L56,000 a year
    were exchange forced up to 1s. 4d., and L156,000 a year were it
    raised to 1s. 6d.  All producers in other parts of India of
    articles of export would be similarly affected.