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OUT ON THE SKA.
STELLA PKARL HARRIS.
Oat on the tea, the dark, tad sea,
Where the breakeraare wildly tossme,
The clouda bang low with misty tears,
v.. Mh annl la rrnssirjf.
The boat has slipped from., the golden
sands,
Oat on the tea so dreary.
And stern faced Chiron bears away.
' To where there is rest for the weary
Oat on the sea, the dark, sad sea,
t id. nir ia Hf9vlnff:
The waves send back to the pebbly
shore.
A kiss from the one who is leaving.
t . -1 -A k.inkmnl nnril lh air
Is filled with its mournful sweetness.
And it takes its place in me lear-uiui-med
world j
With a more than magic meetness.
Out on the sea. the dark, sad sea,
Where the shadows are eravlv sifting
'Neath the cold, cold hand of icy death
My life and my hopes are drifting.
And all is but darkness and dread de
T ; spair
j In face of the viewless ages,
For 'tis written in letters that sear the
soul
That for living death is the wages.
O restless seal O dark, sad ses!
Whose waters are onward moving,
Bring bacit a message, thou voiceless
wave..'' - j
A hope and a promise proving.
Bat the answer that comes is the surf's
sullen roar.
And foam on the waters gleaming;
But in the dim future we kaow there is
dawn,
When we've passed through the dark
ness of dreaming.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
SUNDAY SELECTIONS.
H The chief want in life is some
body who shall make us do the best we
can. Emerson.
. Never fear to bring the great
est comfort to the least trouble and the
largest inspiration to the smallest duty.
Phillips Brooks.,
The haunts of happiness are
varied, but I have more often found her
among little children, home firesides
and country homes than anywhere else.
Sidney Smith.
When you have a piece of work
to do, don't walk round it and look at
it too long, Even If you don't see clear
through it, go at it and the obscure will
gradually become plain. Ex
Some homes are bare that
ought not to be bare. Good books
ought to be there. Bat keep books out
of your homes that will rob off the
bloom that comes to the character of
every child well taught. Rev. I S Hot
kins, Methodist.
"Where the best wine grows,
the worst is drunk." It may be so. Who
can get good milk in a village? Who ex
pects patience or charity from a perfec
tionist ? Who looks for extraordinary
spiritual edification from a Doctor of
Divinity? Spurzeon.
We are ruined not by what we
really want, but by what we think we
do; therefore, never go abroad in search
of your wants. If there are real wants
tbey will come home to yon, for he that
bays what he does not need will soon
want what he cannot buy. Ex.
Next to sin, religion is the
greatest enemy of man. Next to sin,
religion is the deadly force of humanity.
Religion killed Christ. It hunted Him,
tried Him and shouted against Him.
Religion recorded the deed and re
ligion was proud of it. RevA.C. Dixon,
Independent
MSI H Ha 1 1
TWINKLINGS.
Walker Farr "I thought yoar
next tour was to have been through
South Africa? '
Count d'Ties "It was, but the com
pany struck. One of them had read
that an ostrich earg often weighs a
dozen pounds." Puck.
4- "Halt!" exclaimed the Turkish
commander. "Adjutant, call the roll."
"Kudyard Kipling !
"Here."
"Stephen Crane !"
"Here "
"Richard Harding Davis If
"Here."
"All right ! Let the word to advance
be given X' Cleveland Leader.
Full Details Gladly qyen.
A Railroad Official's Experience.
ME. EDWARD EDMONDS, long con
nected with railroad construction in
Nebraska, writes: "My heart troubled
and pained me for 19 years. Shortness of
breath was the constant and most common
symptom. Intense, excruciating pain, gener
ally followed any severe exertion. Falntness,
hunger without any appetite ; fluttering that
made me clutch my breast, and palpitation
that often staggered me as If I would fall,
were frequent attacks. Again, everything
would turn black if I arose from a stooping
posture quickly. Sleepless nights with their
prostrating unrest were
numerous and I could
get no rest day or night.
1 consulted leading phy
sicians and tried adver
tised remedies. They
gave me no relief. One of
asa iuuwo
Heart Cure
Restores
Health
Dr. Miles' circulars described my case so
exactly that I took Dr. Miles' New Heart
Cure and I am now a well man, I hope
every one troubled with heart disease will
try Dr. Miles' remedies. If they will write
me personally, I will gladly give them fall
details of my experience." Edw. Edmonds.
P. O. Box OS, David City. Nebraska.
Dr. Miles' Heart Cure la sold on guarantee
that first bottle benefits or money refunded.
tain has no show with lr. Miles' Pain PI I la
ei Aff&fc Blum Dr- Miles' Pah. Pruj
Com All Pain. "One cent a ""
MAN, THE KICKER.
Ia winter, when the cold wind blow.
3
e doesn't like the Ice and snow.
i.... am tn h.d tiA mnrrnrv SfO
To zero. It It falls below,
Wfi Irloka
Oh, how he klcka!
1
In summer, when the sissards sis.
Alar, kicks. , ,,,
He .groans, "O Lord, how hot It is!
As If no misery equaled his. . ,
Then, as hewlpeshls stream, 11 pnw
Oh, how he kicks!
And so it Is, if cold or hot,
Man kicks. , .
He's never pleased with what h s fott
But gTowls and fumes and swears a m.
And whether It Is right or not
He kicks
Oh, how he kicks! ,
Some r vllle Journal.
A CHILD'S WORLD.
The obild was in its' seventh year, and
the garden, 12 times as old, was on the Is
land. The house also was on the same la
land and was the .place where the child ate
and slept and obeyed. But Its life was In
the garden.
The house faced a pond, and two bridges
bound it and tho garden to the world. By
the lower bridge stood the old mill, and
when its gate was raised a flood of water
boiled and twisted down to a smooth gravel
bed below and then floated quiotly to the
garden's foot. Over against the upper
bridge a mighty dam held the island from
destruction. When the pond back of it
was full, the water poured In a smooth,
green stream over It and was dashed Into
spray and foam and torn to shreds on the
jagged rocks below.
In summer time when there had been
but little rainfall the great , timber t)f the
dam was bare, and the child, when no one
was looking, could walk fearfully across,
between the line of water shelving to the
right and the black mass of sheer rock at
the left. Then it was that the child could
climb over the low stone wall that kept
the garden in and go down among the
jewelweed and stramonium and clawing
blackberry vines that took toll .of gown
and apron, and explore the pools and bot
tomless uits in the river-bed. The water
always stood in these, dark and still, how
ever severe the drought, and no stick ever
sounded the depth of the largest of them.
So it must have been bottomless, like
some of the fearful things one heard read
on Sundays in Scripture. And, though,
the child, with the hair of its flesh stand
ins utj. dropped in stones, and even reach
ed down an arm's length and brought
longer sticks, and tried them again and
again, the deep pool was a kind of sacred
mystery forever. If the child had not been
alone, If it had had a brother, one fascina
tion of its seventh year must have been
lost.
There were holes without number in the
bed of this stream and sharp pointed rocks.
So that when the pond above was full it
was a trrand torrent that foamed roaring
to the harbor, where it found the quiet
millstream curling around the garden's
foot. A steep bank at the right shut the
river from the world, and so made it the
child's own forever.
On the pond, made classic as Winder
mere by song, geese floated double in the
long summer days, and lent enchantment,
and birds nested in the elms that dipped
their branches in the water, and bees hum
med in the clover. Then the expanse nar
rowed, and a simple river met it, creeping
along by the highway, floating between
two guardian churches with tall steeples,
under a long bridge, and so through the
town to the mill and dam.
The child's thought went backward with
it, always starting at the foot of the gar
den. The stream bore an Indian name,
and might have bad its source in the midst
of oampflresand wigwams, and birch bark
canoes, and frightful warwhoopsand torn
ahawks, perhaps a mile, possibly two
miles away. Miles were vague measures,
like time.
There were two lesser things in the
child's life the mill and the dame school,
The first belonged to an old, old man, like
those persons who lived before the flood ;
whose hat 'and hair and coat and eyebrows
were always white, yes, and his boots, and
whatever else he wore. There was a soft.
rambling kind of silence always within
the mill, where the hoppers made little
whirlpools of dusty grain, going down and
down and down, and the child leaned over
with a thrill tingling its whole body, and
knew that itself could be drawn down and
down and down into the wide, floury bags
below, choked and lost forever. The soft
dust filled the air and softened the sun
light and whitened the cobwebs among the
rafters and it was all something apart from
the world and the garden.
The second thing was the Dame school,
where a very old lady years older than
tho miller kept ten prisoners on an up
per iloor of her own bouse from 9 till 19
and from 1 till 4 every day but Saturday.
The child did not then know that liberty
was only sweet when bought with a great
price. 1
Every morning as the clock paused on
the stroke of 9-the dame folded her bands
and prayed, sitting upright like Buddha,
while her captives knelt, each in its place.
At the right band of the image stood the
best girl of the school, 9 years old, perfect
in word and deed and called monitor, who
walked around on tiptoe and rapped on
the head with the ferrule any culprit who
peeped out. It was a diabolic plot, not
tully appreciated at the time by the prison
ers, for who could hear the stealthy ap
proach 01 calamity and blindly wait, not
knowing which way to dodgef So heaven
alone had the benefit of the morning prayer.
All day long, winter and summer, sum
mer and winter, like eternity, the child
thought, little hands knitted and sewed,
with book always in lap. The daily
stint was marEea Dy tne rate In cup
and spectacles, sitting in a high armchair,
and no child left the room till its task was
perfectly finished.
The spelling class of six stood with toes
n a crack of the wide floor board nearest
the teacher, where her long arm, like jus
tice's, could reach any offender, and where
nothing could be hidden from her all see
ing eye": The first cKTTd in the row named
"baker" and spelled it; the second named
"shady" and spelled it; the third named
lady and spelled it; the, fourth named
tiay" ana spelled it. But if No p.
twisting nervous fingers in her apron,
nameu "laoy" instead of "shady" her
fingers were rapped for moving, and she
was disgraced and sent to the foot. For
order stood on a level with accuracy at this
tribunal. There was no figure five on a
half inch square of naner for tin 9 h
day to hoard In her pasteboard matchbox.
uis irum ine tin dipper, however
parched the little lips might be. For these
precious figure fives had to be parted with
one for every drink of brackish water that
stood in a wooden pail In the entry. Five
fives were exchangeable at long periods
for one ten, ten tens for a 2 Inch reward
oi menc. The ohild alone wnn no tii
at sight of even the final reward trained as
euch loss and pain, but drank its fill dally
and wondered at the others. Sometimes It
wondered also If the warm, tinny taste of
the water drawn from a well too near the
sea bad may connection with the reward.
The miller's dauahter. Abigail, a thin.
lint haired child, with pate blue eyes, knit
ted long stockinos for her tall brother.
who was a man. The child thouaht of
xiim as oaui, ne stood so much higher than
his brethren. One day when the long
stocking had crown by oa In fill half Inches
nearly to the toe, the sharp eyes of Dame
fata diaoovered a dropped sttteh la the be
ginning of the leg, and ravellll it all out
irom Dot torn to tap. Tears for little Abi
gail, and no figure five I
The heart of the ohild was hot within Its
bosom as it saw fall one after one the nlnk
and blue and yellow and red yam marks
Ilka milestones all along the way marks
knitted in by the teacher's beny fingers
and tied In hard knots on the vmu M
marks never to be removed save fay the
mistress hand when the task was done. I
seemed like a waste of life. But Abigail
took up bar weary "bouts" again, with
the patience of despair.
Every other Saturday mornins anhnnl
kept, that satan might not have toe much
verge and opportunity, and the catechism
was ground into the tough fiber of mem
ory in place of other tasks. But tha anw.
ing and knitting kept oh. At one of these
every others the ohild looked out between
the two lengths of window curtain and
saw a shaggy dog bounding in and, out of
- waser, ana laughed softly to itself.
But Dame Fate, whoa M .
whjre beholding the.evll, spied the srjme.
Every
Room
in your house spick and span, and
you hardly feel that you've cleaned
them . To master your housework ,
and not let it master you use
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Brown Dress Linens, New Run?, Table Linens,
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1 jSBsSm W".":i esq m J
glm -MO
pinned the curtains closer together, set two
harp thumbs In the hollows of the small
shoulders, shook the child dizzy, and
turned its back to the school, where i
learned as an extra task "The Lord is my
shepherd,," etc. It was the old fashioned
way of teaching children to love the Bible.
The catechism question for the day
was, "Wherein consists the sinfulness of
that estate whereinto man fell?" And
the answer, " The-sinfulness-of -that-estate-whereinto-man-fell
- consists - in-the-guilt-of-Adam's-flrst
- sin -the -want -of - original
righteousness -and- the-corruptlon - of - his
whole - natnre-whlch - is-commonly -called -original
sln-together-with-all-actual-trans-gressions-wbioh-proceed-from-it."
But the ohild was far away. Even the
whimpering of the ABC babes under the
ferrule for rustling about did not bring,
tears as usual, for its eyes were set on
green pastures where little white lambs
kicked up their free heels, and mother
sheep took no notice, but nibbled and
baaed all day long, as if there were no
barm in it. The leading beside still waters
made quite another picture. But might it-1
not be done by some older, wiser playmate
with a string, to keep the ohild safely on
shore between river and meeting mill
stream, where chip vessels would float and
dip and veer distractedly, go under and
rise again? The paths of righteousness
took thought. But might they not be
those that led from porch to garden gate,
where one never disobeyed or ran outside
of bounds ?never but oncer
That Awas last year, when November
winds were bleak, and the child, at Abi
gail's beckoning across the mill stream,
strayed out and to the lower bridge in a
vagrant, way, looking for something, neith
er ohild knew what. So they stopped at
the. gentle lady's door and asked to see the
squirrels in the whirling cage that smelled
warm and foreigny, and fed them with
hickory nuts, and time went on. Then
they took hold of hands and ran and ran
and ran, swinging down the hill, and the
child fell in the sand at the bottom and
knew It would never breathe again.
Then they strolled across the way to, the
queer house with sanded floor, where the
child slipped and fell, and the miller's
daughter, who had been there before,
snatched up the unusual guest, shook off
the sand and went on to the dark, low
room where the queer lady, like j her of
Shallot, weaved all day long, and cared
for nothing else. She wore a strange wool
en gown, coarse of texture for the child
took a pinch of a stray fold that left bare
-a bony neck except for a snuffy kerchief
twisted about it The child saw a blue
check apron, too, and great felt slippers on
the treadle, and a few gray hairs screwed
into a tight little knot, small as a filbert,
beneath a black cap.
The two watched the shuttle and the
web and heard the clang of the loom as
long as it was new, and when they moved
to go the weaver opened her thin lips for
the first time and said they might pick up
quinces in her garden, for there was going
to be a frost by night. So the two simple
ones picked up cold quinces till the day
light was gone, and there was no more
time for them than If they had been angels
in the sun. But that night, when the
wind shrieked, and the child lay with a
swollen, throbbing throat, never knowing
before what night was like, all the sorrows
of the transgressor piled their weight on
its hot head, and it cried out in awe of the
unknown, like a certain pious little queen
to be, "I will be good."
For had not the mother searched every
nook and corner in bouse and garden and
sent tho miller's son to drag the pond, just
as a shivering little figure in blue ging
ham came loitering in sight, with a burned
ginger cooky in the purple fist that did
not grasp the sunbonnet, and tight little
heartstrings that conscience was tugging
at? But these last did not show.
The dame school in summer time held
one only joy. It was the thought of ho
July and August days, when the clouds
piled up like woolly mountains and light
nings streaked the sky. . Then the fate of
the armchair, impelled by something mys
terious and invisible, stopped work, step
ped down and gently shepherded her will
ing flock to a room across the hallway with
one green paper darkened window and a
high feather bed.
Any child was allowed to share the bed
of safety with the dame, whose dignity
gave way before the god of thunder, but
there was not even a tradition that in the
dark past ages any child had so demeaned
itself as to accept the privilege.
The least ones played softly behind the
one high backed chair, while the elders
crawled under the bed and whispered made
up stories and came out 3 in ty and feathery
when the storm was over without a touch
of the ferrule even from the dame, who sat
cowed in the middle of the bed, a deposed
and scepterless queen.
And so all her small flock reveled in
storm and thunder and never knew what
fear was, except to despise its imago whon
they saw it. Alyn Yates Eeith in New
York Post
THS EDITOR LAUGHED.
Mm Brought Down at Big; Bag at Gsuna
With One Shot.
When J was running a college weekly in
a western town, I was compelled on one
occasion to hear myself denounced, in the
presence of a third party who knew us
both, by a professor who did not know me
by sight, who was too absent minded to
observe my indignation and too oussed to
care overmuch if he had. He characterized
the publication over which I presided in
the most derosatory terms and said I
'slopped over."
Perhaps I. did. But the accusation
seemed to me preposterous. And the cir
cumstances under which I overheard it
aggravated the offense, while they made a
retort on the spot impossible.
That night I sat up until nearly 10
o'clock fulminating a thunderbolt. It was
launched in the next issue of the weekly.
As I recall it, It went nearly as follows:
"It has come within our official cogni
zance that a certain professor has declared
publicly that this paper slops over and that
he has no use for us. We desire to remark
that in times now happily past we have
said some kind things about this professor.
We have had to slop over in order to do so.
Instructions have gone forth to our staff
that hereafter they may ease up in their
heroic efforts in that direction. The pro
fessor will not be worried henceforth by
any undeserved adulation. " )
I thought that paragraph was a smash
er. My "staff" informed me that it Was
both able and adroit. I smiled when one
of my teachers called me up and said he
hoped the reference was not intended for
him. It wasn't. When another one assured
me that -he had not been correctly quoted,
my smile widened. He was not the man
I was after. I laughed merrily when an
other professor told me that he thought it
would have been in better taste if he and
I had come to a personal explanation. He
was not the man. I exploded with amuse
ment when a good-friend of mine in the
faculty asked me if I was aiming at a mild
mannered old philanthropist who taught
in the seminary. It was some one else I
wanted. I heard of that paragraph dozens
of times in the next few days, and for
awhile I was in the highest spirits.
Then it occurred to me that I was bring
ing down too much game, that my thun
derbolt had scattered its Are too widely.
The idea sobered me, and I sat down to
think it over. It became evident to my
clarified perceptions that I had polled un
wittingly the sentiment of the' entire body
of learned gentlemen who managed the
affairs of my college, and that they must
havo been saying things about the paper
that it were better to have left unrevealed.
As I recall the incident after some years
my impression is that if there was any joke
in it it was on me. C. B. F. in New York
Mail and Express.
THE FAMILY BIBLE.
What the Heir Discovered Therein and the
Lesson It Taught.
For years the old family Bible had held
its position of honor on the center table.
Hard times had come, and the posses
sions of the family had found their way
one by one into the pawnbroker's shop.
With its substantial binding of honest
leather, the honest gilding on its edges, its
fine, clear print and its excellent state of
preservation, notwithstanding its age and
the vicissitudes to which it had been ex
posed in its long history, the old volume
would have been a treasure in the library
of a collector of books, but no idea of turn
ing it into money ever entered the heads of
the poor but still proud people who owned
it. And the old Bible continued to occupy
its place of honor on the table in the center
of the room that served as parlor, sitting
room and dining room in the humble
dwelling of tho Pillsmores.
But the time had come when the family
was about to separate.
its few sffrvivlne members, yielding to
the i fossurc of necessity and the nature of
their several occupations, bad decided to
scatter and earn their livelihoods as indi
viduals. Tho few nossessions still remarning to
them were divided without any wrangling.
ill A. .1 J DM.1..
&ii except lira uiu biuic,
There was some dispute over this, but
peaceful counsels prevailed, and it was de
cided to cast lots for it.
The venerable volume fell to the eldest
boy, Roger Pillsmore.
Roger lifted the heavy book from the
table, sat down and began in an absent-
minded way to turn the leaves.
m. - m m -
Well, the story does not turn out as you
may possibly have anticipated.
Roaer did not find a will conveying prop
erty of immense value to the Pillsmore
family.
But he did find scattered through its
pages the sum of $27.60 in fractional cur
rency of the year 1863, which some frugal
but forgetful ancestor had placed there
either for safe keeping or to straighten out
the wrinkles. Chicago Tribune.
THE WOMEN OF INDIA
FAMILY AND SOCIAL RELATIONS IN
THE LAND OF THE MAHATMAS.
Annie Besant Gives Her Conclusions After
Investigation and Experience High
Praise For the Hindoo Woman and the
Institutions to Which She Belongs.
The first point to grasp in seeking to un
derstand the complicated problems con
nected with Indian womanhood is that
Indian woman" is a label that is attach
ed to a large number of very varied classes.
First, we have the Hindoo women of the
four great castes, with their hundreds of
subdivisions. These again vary according
to localities, the Hindoo women of the north
and the south differing widely in their
ways of life and and social customs. Next
como the Mohammedan women, belonging
to what is really a different world of
thought, habits and family lifa Then the
Zoroastrian, or Parsi, women, a compara
tively small but influential class. There
remains a mass of unclassifiable women of
the lowest working types, of mixed races,
poor, ignorant, with littlo religion of any
definite kind, often gentle and dutiful,
though degraded, and with possibilities of
future growth. An idea prevails largely
in the west that Hindoos are' polygamists.
Nothing can be farther from the truth.
Among all my Indian friends and ac
quaintances I do not know one, nor know
of any one connected with them, who has
more than one wife. I am told that here
and there a prince may bo found who is
dissolute, and therefore is a polygamist,
and that in rare cases a second wife is
taken by a commoner, with the consent of
the first, where, after years of married life,
no child has been born to the home.
To die childless is a horror to the ortho
dox Hindoo. That difficulty is more often
avoided by the adoption of a near relative
as a son than by the taking of a second
wife while the first is living.
The ideal of marriage among Hindoos
is of the loftiest character. The union is
regarded as that of two souls suited to
mate with each other, for the attainment
of a spiritual end: the physical union be
ing a subordinate consideration and exist
ing for the maintenance of the family
Hence marriage in extreme youth has been
favored and the boy and girl are taught to
lovo each other and think of none other in
this relation for years ere tbey come to
gether as man and wile.
Another thing that has to be considered
in this relation is that the Hindoo custom
is "the joint family system." A man,
when he marries, does not leave the family
house and make a new home for himself
and his wife. Suoh a course, from the
Hindoo standpoint, destroys family life
He brings his wife borne to his parents and
grandparents, if living, to his as yet un
married sisters, his brothers and their
wives and families, his uncles and grand
uncles, with theirs, all living under the one
root, with their private rooms and com
mon rooms, the heads of the household
being the grandparents, if both are living,
or the eldest son, among the next genera
tion, and his wife after the grandfather
has passed away. In suoh a case the wid
owed grandmother remains a power in the
house, and nothing important is done
without her consent. Very beautiful is
such a family life, all the children grow
ing up together as one huge family, and
the women held in the tenderest affection
and respect. The elder women are the vir
tual rulers of the household life.
The younger women wives or unmar
ried daughters are trained by the elders,
and in due time take their places, the
mother being the central figure of tho
Hindoo twine. Disobedience to parents is
one of the worst of sins, and lack of rever
ence to the mother is well nigh unknown.
Reverence to the gods, to the spiritual
teacher, to the parents, is impressed from
infancy on all, and "where the women are
not honored" no divine blessing rests.
Such is the immemorial custom, and
though western ideas of "independence"
are beginning to mar the noble ideal of a
perfect family life, myriads of happy
homes remain where the old love and duti
fulness are found. "The wife is subordi
nate to the husband?" Yes. He is her
head, her beloved lord, cherished and
served with untiring devotion, and the
Hindoo ideal wife is a model of love, fidel
ity and tender obedience. She lives for
him and for her children, serving also his
parents, until the time comes for her to
rule the household. And she is repaid by
a wealth of love, of tenderness of which
the western world has no idea. ,
Few households are without a widow,
and her position has been roughly com
mented on by western writers. The Hindoo
widow does not remarry, for death does
not break the marriage bond. She leads
the life most honored in India that of the
religious ascetic.
Hindoo women of two generations back
were well educated for their work in lifa
They were trained from childhood in a
knowledge of the noble Indian literature
and knew by heart whole books of ethical
teachings in story, parable or lofty versa
They were taught domestio management
as a science, medicine, the value oi rood
stuffs, herbs, etc. But chief of all was the
training by precept and example in a spir
itual view of human life, the subordina
tion of the physical to the spiritual, the
perfect discharge of duty. And we find in
Hindoo homes a rare type of most gracious
womanhood, divinely patient, gentle and
unselfish, refined and sweet, with a deli
cate purity of thought and intuition.
breathing out so pure an influence that the
whole atmosphere grows fragrant with
breaths of a more heavenly air than ours.
The younger Hindoo women, unhappily,
have not received this education of their
elders, owing to the unconsciously experi
enced influence of western ways, and are
too often somewhat trivial and childish,
though fair and sweet and lovabla At
tempts are being made to introduce an
education based on English models, and
many schools are being opened with this
end in view. But an education suited for
a wholly different civilization in which
an ever increasing number of women are
thrown on their own exertions for a liveli
hood, and, competing with man in profes
sions and trades, require an education like
that of their male competitors is entirely
unsuitable for girls whose destiny is the
home and not the market place.
1 had the pleasure in Mysore of placing
before the maharani regent (the queen re
gent) and her ministers a carefully thought
out view of the female education which I
believe to be needed for Hindoo girls, and
at the request ot the prime minister I after
ward prepared a paper, which he is having
translated into the southern vernaculars
and widely circulated.
Certain it is that the matter is of the
deepest importance for the future, for if
western influences triumph we shall only
get bad replicas of an alien type, while the
unique type of Hindoo womanhood will be
lost to the world, save in literature. Suoh
loss may the gods avert I Annie Besant In
New York Journal.
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