Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-13

sixteen she was left orphan, and thus early had
decided to devote her life to the education of her
country women
She married Bengalese gentleman-a lawyer
whom she freely chose this being an instance al
most without precedent. He did not belong to her
caste and she suffered much on this account. She
taught him Sanskrt and he gave her English les
sons. She called him by his first name, which was
dreadful thing in the opinion of the women round
about. (They lived in Cachar-Assam.) She did
not specially wait upon him, but took her meals at
the same time, which was another mortal sin. She
had already determined to go to England and study
medicine, and he agreed to help her all he could
But he died suddenly with cholera when they had
been but two years married. leaving her a widow
with baby girl eight months old, when she was
twenty-four years of age. But though her protec-
ton and support was thus suddenly cut off, Rama
bal did not despair. She sold her little home, paid
off her debts, wrote a book which brought her
money enough for her journey, and sixteen months
after her husbands death set off across the I'M
known seas for England. This was in 1888. She
found that slight deafness, the result of scarlet
fever, would prevent her from studying medicine.
Prof Max Muller and other learned men took
up her cause, and she was made professor of
Sanskrt at Cheltenham University, where she re-
manned till 1886, when DR.. Joshee, who was her
cousin, lady of high caste, was to graduate from
the Woman's Medical College at Philadelphia, and
Pundita came over to see her and to study our ed
vocational methods.
The death of DR.. Joshee soon after she returned
to India was heavy blow to Pundita and to the
woman's cause in Hindostan.
During her eighteen months in this country she
has written book called sThe High Cast Hindoo
Women" 1t is said to be intensely interesting.
cit tells of women whose2hy and objectionable
sin is in having been born at all, and who are all
their lives accursed in the eyes of their knfoks,
because death took away the boys to whom they
were betrothed in infancy and they are held to be
the cause of this loss and grief in their prospec
tive husbands homes. 1t tells of their bondage,
from which suicide or shame are the only sources
of deverance, and it tells in burning words of
Pundita Ramabas undying purpose to work out
their deliyerance by means of a Christian educa-
ton"
This little lady is now in California, where she is
received with great enthusiasm.
Her book is published by the W. c. T. U. Pub
LEGATION Association of Chicago, at 161 La Sale
street, and sells for $1.35 copy. The proceeds
are to help forward her work and to assist in the
education of her little daughter, now in an Eps
copal school in England. She was baptized while
in England and is an avowed Christian, although
she has never chosen among the sects and an
nounces herself in harmony with all.
She wishes to found in India school for high
caste Hindoo widows, and asks good people of every
name to help her. But she is not under any
''auspices' aid no denominational missionary
board can consistently take up her cause, nor does
she wish it.
A committee has been formed, with the Rev.
Edward Everett Hale and Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooks
of Boston at its head, which will endeavor to aid
this noble enterprise.
cannot help cherrshing the earnest hope, writes
Miss Willard, that under Pundita Ramabai's
Christian sway, women never yet reached by our
appliances may be loosed from the prison-house of
ignorance lifted out of the habitatons of cruelty