The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-23
Letters from the Old World.
BY MISS JENNIE A. NELSON.

BY MISS JENNIE A. NELSON.
ST NO. XVII
es DEHRA DooN, Northern India,
Thursday, Nov. 13, 1872.
1 send you letter from my Calcu
,e ia Baboo, received this week, but i
order that you may understand it,
viii copy an extract from former on
p CALCUTTA, June Is, 1872.
1--WE have set up an adult Felnal
School. 1t is yet but in its infancy
Q yet the feeble infant, to my min6
q promises of very glorious, success
full manhood I hope we have you
y sympathies for our this infant Institu
: ton. India has done and is doins
the greatest possible injustice towar'
! the ge'.tler seq. The time has com'
when she can no longer be allowed t,
do SO. Herwoes are 6riny~A. We hav,
thought it proper to do as much o.
b we can in our humble way for th'
woman of our dearly beloved country
We have the frmest faith in these
well known words" 1t is not in NOR
( tails to command svccesS, we will dC
more. we will deserUe it.
II am yours with greatest respect
IN. K. c."
I admire the good sense and earn
estness of the man, but he seems sci
against Christianity In the same
letter he says he cannot accept the doc
trine of Christ's atonement. I trust the
spirit OF God may yet topen his eyes. ]
did not establish School here, as be
intimates, only visited Zananas, and
this 1 have been obliged to discon-
tinue, as could not do that work and
my School work too.
The following is the exact letter
received from the Baboo:
CALCUTTA, Friday, Nov. s 1872.
'DEAR Miss NELSON 1t is after
rather q long time that take up my
pen to address you few lines. More
than a month ago 1 went to Decca, to
see my wife and child. I have come
back here last Saturday. 1 was very
much panied to see my child so brok-
en- in health. The climate of Decca,
which is proverbially bad, has told
upon my child's constitution most Sc
riously, and it is reduced to a perfect
skeleton. I do not know what to do
in this critical state of affairs. Ny
income is not sufficient to supply my
wife and child in Calcutta, which, as
metropolis, is very dear in living. 1
now and then think of flying to Dehra
Doom, place much cheaper, and
where climate viii do far more for
health than all medicine and good
diet can do in this part of India. 1
myself was far better at Dehra Doom,
infinitely better I would say. 1 had
scarcely any illness during my six
months residence in that romantic
and healthy valley. I could read faf
more than I can do here. I could
continue to pore on my books for
hours together, without being much
tired On all these accounts, es-
pecially on account of my child's
severe illness, I am very much inclin-
ed to go up to Dehra once again, and
there restore my child's health, as well
as my own. But 1 have not made up
my mind on the subject, and SO you
should not take my words to mean
more than desire, which circumstan-
ces have sprung up in my soul. Such.
is the state ofmy affairs. Such is the
position I now occupy. May I ask
you how are you getting on? I do
not know if the School you establish
ed while 1 was there for the education
of our Ladies, still exists OF not. The
School we established some months
ago has already ceased to exist for
want of suitable means. We were too
poor to keep up such a respectable
institution as that. Had we means
we would certainly not allowed it to
share the lamentable fate it has met
with. But we have still a newspaper
in our own vernacular, devoted to the
interests of females. We call it, as it
should be called, 'eThe Woman's
Friend" Its object is to propagate
iuster and truer ideas about woman; !;
to represent that woman is not that
degraded being which she has been
represented to be by selfish man !;
that she has rights as sacred as those
of man; that to be truly civilized we
should respect these rights just as
much as those Of the other sex. Any at
tempt to trample on woman's rights,
is most vehemently protested against.
The nation and the Government are
suppIcated to be sensible of the in
justice they are doing to this large
portion of their members; to shake
off that inhuman apathy still exhibited
toward the real welfare of woman,
and to take up the cause Of this eter
nally neglected class OF our race in
right earnest. This is the object of
our paper, and as our country but as
yet very little appreciates what are
woman's rights; as our country is as
yet too ignorant, unenightened and
selfish, to feel beyond the narrow
sphere of its own selfish interest,
we are undoubtedly not very popular.
We could not possibly expect other
wise. Our countrymen can possibly
tolerate the idea of female education,
but the very idea of female emancipa-
ton they cannot The very word
sounds strange and horrifying in their
ears Woman, ever secluded and
shut out even from the light of day,