The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-27
LIFE OF HINDU WOMEN.
How They Are Reared and Given in
Marriage.
From the New Orleans Picayune.


From the New Orleans Picayune.
The life of the Hindu woman is in the
household. Her entire ideal of character
IS domestic virtue. She feels that she is
born for no higher place than to be
mother, a wife, daughter. If providence
Snoud smlte her with early widowhood,
snels to go through all the austerities
o. tnat hard, long, enforced celibacy. her
Iale does not necessarily crush her spirit,
thougn she Is afflicted more than anyone
cdn Tell; but she concentrates herself all
me more devotedly to the Services of
thoSe IN the household who are more
fortunate than she is herself. In every
country, lteel persuaded, there is need
t9r class OF women who wilInot live for
themselves, who have neither hus-
odnds nor children, nor many personal
want but who give all their energy,
S SL tnelr souls, all their woman's
humanity and woman's heart, for the
uueug OF the poor, the sick, the
S TtLetched and the helpless, said Protap
Euunuer Mezoomder in a speech in Bos-
i So4 II your country many unmarried
IauIes 90 That. In Roman Catholic COM
ml1ltles the Sisters of Charity and the
uuAS 40 that. In India the widows do
. sndt. 1nelr austerities, indeed, are pre-
t tLt.Oeu Dy the country's customs; but
o orFy tdhe 70 these so cheerfully, and with
cor single murmur, without moments
~ D-plGd!nI, mat these austerities, instead
foro -utAlug lhem harsh or cruel or indif-
coto ~ eo4Jen them, develop them, edu-
VueIh' eyalt them, turn them into
W ,,,lo'eflhg angels for Hindu society
,iunS Vi Jhem cannot be persuaded to
~ up Ihelr hardships; they seem to be
The , Iuuid woman is born to marry, as
i sparks ny upward. The woman who
Tba nUv married is a monstrosity. The
otb.. !olldh who proposes to herself any
heinz I i'! That the domestic ideal is
raj s M TLnufeamed of, unheard Of, unnatu-
verv me rne result IS, she has to be married
choice CITY Ky She is married, not by her
She T. ouI oy the choice of her parents.
bov-sb uiaIrled TO a young man--often a
fectlv i5,y.,. W nose antecedents she is per-
Y 1je9 9oI seen before the day of marriage.
WI, s uuese marriages take place. and if
nv Ta1A me are they happy, / think l keep
sav t ~ strlctly within the truth when /
is o 1rGy Ihe average Hindu marriage
riagas 'e as happy as the mar
co9m conn OF any other country or
womep MY ny Few respectable Hindu
E, He en- complain that thew were married.
ever - course, there are exceptions to
bsndS l; Tue. If you ask an humble hus-
rnsrrie lIA i; myself, for instance, about my
nv Wiz ne ne, Will say that never saw
know nc -.,I oeIore married her, nor did she
Or even r-u aal OF me, nor are we rich or fine
the nea,, ttouiIortable always: but. if all
Of tie ulS and education and refinement
were D,a "o19nanhood in the whole world
the 65 paced before me, | would take bv
whom -- no other than the little child
wo1id welded when was a bow. and I
deyotedi i've her to the end as the most
''I oetler half. '-' 0'0A io'0N
other Ss' ma ladies and gentlemen. as in
is a set ,,atters, so in domestic life. there
above N duaptati0n preordained from
men and tnere Is kind of destiny RI
cling not t "oF foa. are faithful, self1sacri-
tastes J an 700 fond of pleasure or their own
unhanp1,l-l anu whims, they are never very
the r5 M, VI course, / do not saw thai
ideal cD-ilage customs Of my country are
improve71oSus there is great room for
when oIlIent One reads Of an ACE
Of the Hi 'e5 u,sages prevailed. We hear
place b 11' aLL marriage that used to take
vara rbSlolce. 1t was called Swvam-
person VIZ 49 glrl chose by her own will the
rate sa loA She would marry. and elabo-
found in az - cunts Of such msrriages are
ii'liuu books. For instance,