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MORE ABOUT “MOTHER INDIA.”

HINDUISM'S SOCIAL CONSCIENCE.

THE WORKING OF RERAM FROM WITHIN. :

Europeans have probably heard ; eleven years old. But then her con-events that were bringing about a all the comment on Miss Katherine science and sense of duly got the complete revolution in her outlook. Mayo's "Mother India" that they better of her shocking dilatoriness The upshot, was that before very want to hear. Indians sometime and she began to lock round for long she had so forsaken orthodoxy | affect to feel the same about it, but a husband for her daughter. A that the actually connived at her. they evidently had it difficult to proposal came first from one of widow-daughter's marriage to the leave the matter alone, says the Vasnati's cousins, a pleasant young once-rejected cousin. A baby sound Calcutta correspondent of the Mosfellow studying for degree, in Body and mind was born of this chester Guardian. I have heard the

playmate for whom the much more satisfactory anion. and. book defended by an enthusiastic little girl had a warm regard.overyone lived happily ever after Swarajist on the ground that it didyasanti, indeed though she knew except the horrified champions of at least awaken Indians' conscious little about wedlock, was yet pleased religious conventionality, ness of some of ther social ills; but and thrilled when the marriage offer he had no liking either for Miss

was made. Even the father was. Mayor or her work. On the whole

happy. But Radha rejected the the abuse still poured on book and boy with scorn and determined that author is as savage as it ever was, her son-in-law should be a certain

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The Significance of the Story. The value of this and similar work is that it gives at once an in- dieation of fillip to the work for re-

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aged about fifty, widower with three children, of whom the eldest country riddled with superstition was older than Vasanti herself. and suspicion.

"Mother India?

less frequent. Some time ago Rai. Sahib Harbilas Sarda was inveigh ing fercely against "Miss Mayo and other libellers of India," but So with much poop and éclat, is harrowing enough, but a woman it is commonly held by those who costing plenty of money for which of much longer experience of India ought to know and will speak that provident Radha had provided than Miss Mayo's has told me that his Child Marriage Bill would not years, before, Vasanti, was married in trying to tackle a single problem nave triumphed in Assembly as it to her old, widowed, and immoral she has found things very much did if Mother India" had not

worse than anything described in yet rich bridegroom.”.

Miss Mayo's book. The absolute been written. The real grievance and some Europeans here consider By the time that she was fifteen essential is whole-hearted and sym it a reasonable grievances that Vasanti bad duly borne three chil-pathetic, but never patronising, en- aliens in an alien land should have dren, and all of them had died for couragement of every Indian effort HONG KONG CANTON LINE.

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repudiate it would readily admit As the first of them was dying ment put forward be one or tun, and propegate its truth if theyVasanta rather suddenly asked Indian Nationalist friends of mine thought they could do so without Radha, Mother, why did you get that "We know these things are Beeming to confess that they needed me married so early? The lady had, and we want to right them; a foreigner to tell them the truth. doctor says that the child was born but as soon as we say that out loud weak because I was so immature some of you Europeans get up and An Indian Woman's Story.

and his father so old Could you exclaim, There you are, you sec.

༩ Consider, for instance, how far not wait, mother? You have heard You know what your social condi- Miss Maye is vindicated by an what all the reformaers are saying."tions are like, so how can you pre- Indian woman (anonymous) who And the gentle grandmother retend that you're fit to govern your- contributes a story to a recent aum-plied, May God's curse descend selves!" This sort of tactlessness ber of The Indian Ladies' Magazine, on them for unsettling our minds." does a great deal of injury. edited by Indian women and pub-

Eventually Vasanti's husband be- lished by an Indian firm.

came exceptionally disagreeable to The story is called "Anaksharaher and began to look for another' the Ignorant One." It tells of wife. Greatly daring, she left him! Corsair, constructed at a cost of Radha, "a rigid-natured Brahmin and so excited her father's sy woman, strictly orthodox and mor pathy that he was inspired to insist bidly religious," and her only child, on her being allowed to remain at Maine, in a few weeks. The new a girl named Vasanti. Redba's home with her parents. Later her pleasure ship, said to be the lar husband was a "noncntity;" "he husband peremptorily demanded her Best and most costly yacht in the loved his wife and found nothing return, threatening to take legal world, is 343 ft., over all, with to eriticise in her," says the author. proceedings if she did not come 12ft, beam. She is a twin-screw Therefore it can be understood back. She obeyed, but by -greni electro turbined oil-burner of 3,080

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Dinner Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, 8 p.m.

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