The magazine and other duties: The magazine, to be called Meher Baba Journal , is entrusted to Elizabeth, Norina and Nonny. They will be given offices in the hospital quarters.
[Soona]Masi is to keep watch at the main gate. She is the Gatekeeper to Heaven! She should wake Lakshi up at 5:00 A.M. and have the toilets cleaned by Zohra. Kitty should see that Zohra cleans the Western women's toilets. When purchases of food from the bazaar arrive, Masi is to notify Gaimai, and Gaimai should send Bhami to carry them inside. When heavy sacks of coal or grain are brought, Masi should ask Kitty for servants to help.
Rano is to look after anyone who is ill among the group. All medicines to be dispensed by her at the proper intervals. If an Eastern woman becomes ill, Gaimai should look after her diet, and if it is a Westerner, Irene should see to her food. Rano is also to serve as house carpenter.1
The following rules were laid down at this time:
Concerning water here: There is always a scarcity of rain. Every year the wells get low. There is only one well for the mast ashram, here and the hospital. There must be no waste, so use water only as Baba orders:
When washing, turn on the tap, take water and turn it off. Do not leave the tap on.
Baths are to be taken every other day. Gaimai every day. Each is allowed half a pail of very hot water. For washing hair, one and a half bucketfuls of very hot water are permitted.
No one should enter Baba's compound without him or without his permission. Only Walu should clean Baba's cabin on the hill.
Helen is to paint the inside of Baba's future tomb, but she should not work after 7:00 P.M.
No one should climb the Water Tank tower without Baba.
No one should step out of the compound without Baba's permission or without being accompanied by him. (Compound means outside of the wall.) Those working in the hospital and Meher Baba Journal office are exempt from this.
All should sleep under mosquito nets.
No one is to call a servant without first asking Kitty.
Anyone taking medicine, tonic, milk, orange juice, et cetera, at odd hours, must wash her own cup, glass or spoon and replace where they belong.
Footnotes
- 1.Rano had also drawn an illustration of a Banyan tree ("The Tree of Knowledge"), which was to be used as the cover for the Meher Baba Journal.