Banknotes For Tea

It would have been "gossip" and un-British actually to name the Nawab, but last week Reynolds' Illustrated News of London printed: "Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy of India, was a bit bewildered when he was entertained at tea recently by a wealthy Nawab. To show in what honor he held his visitor, the Nawab had a fire made of rupee notes to boil the water for the tea.

"Total cost of the fuel was Rs. 3,000 ($1,110). Doubtless the viceroy would have felt more honored if the notes had been given to the Nawab's poor subjects."

As the Viceroy is a Scottish banker from rock-ribbed Edinburgh, his feelings at this display of money to burn were doubtless even more excruciating than Reynolds' Illustrated News hinted.

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