Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-12

violence TO her, ana AZ last trieu 10
draw his sword. II was the Tibetans
who protected her against her own Chi
nese servant, and, saying there was no
chief there able TO protect her, sent her
on under an escort
Miss Taylor's hardships would re-
quirc volume for adequate description.
For three days they lost their road.
They had no tent That and every
comfort had to be sold, her servant hav-
ing taken everything he could from her
before he left When, on December "a,
they found the road again, they hid
away In the hills for the whole of
Christmas day During all this part OF
the journey her sufferings from tho
rnrity Of the air were very great; pal
pitntions, gaspings, and inability to d.
gcst their barley food, Noga spread q
report that Miss Taylor was travelling
with belt Of gold and jewels around
her waist She had TO travel by night
finding the cold almost unbearabla
Tea frozc as soon as poured out, ana
for three nights they were only too
thankful 10 find refuge In cave with
barely room enough for them TO lie
down, half suffocated by smoke, so O.
TO obtain little warmth.
On December 81 they crossed the
Drichu into the LhAssa district, but had
Ia stop near Najuca, within three days
journey Of Lhassa; owing 10 Noga hav-
ing gone before, revealing that II was
u foreigner coming. A military chief
arrived, and there was sort OF trial
In the end Miss Taylor convinced the
officer OF the truth Of her story, saving
the lives Of her two Tibetan servants,
who were accused OF treacherously
leading her into Tibet The chiefs told
her that us far as they were concerned
sne could go on TO Lhassa, but they
would lose their lives II she did, and
they gave her an official and nine sol
diers 10 protect her against the Chinese
servant, besides supplying her most
pressing necessities. Everywhere she
found the Tibetans express liking for
the English. They had been especially
struck by the fact that the prisoners in
the sikkim war were kept alive, well
fed, and actually supplied with money
TO go home with.
On the return journey the horses,
which have 10 be fed with gonts' flesh,
hunger that they We're always tumD.
ling down, until Miss Taylor Joined
yak caravan, and 200 yalfs made way
for them through twenty feet OF snow.
On January ~ Miss Taylor left the
Lhassa district of Tibet, and on April
IL she reached Tachienlu after hard
ships such M II seems hardly credible n
woman should have surmounted.
Women's clubs to-day, in town or in
country, are almost always distinctly
educational In their aims and purposes.
Many clubs lay out courses In philo-
sophie and historic study which cover a
wide range Of literature, and make inn
perativc close and scholarly toll on the
part OF those who write papers and
those who intelligently discuss them.
A woman's club without paper or pa
pers takingu up definite line OF thought
or research is n very singular phenome-
non. We do hear now and then, and
we rejoice 10 hear, OF girls clubs, just
for fun, for recreation pure and simple,
but the members Of these usually feel
that they ought 10 apologize for their
frivolity.
Americans learn very slowly that
there is nothing wrong in the pursuit
OF enjoyment per &c. We are sober,
reflective, serious people. Our women
are, above everything else, consoion-,
tious, even 10 severity, and they feel
quite naturally that after the social
luncheon or before the afternoon cup
Of tea they should in some way devote,
themselves either to the improvement
Of their minds or 10 the amelioration of
certain ills, the reformation of some
abuses or the assistance and elevation
of people who are down-trodden and
oppressed -llarper's Bazaar
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