The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-03
CALLED SAVACES.
This Was the Epithet Applied
to Women of the West
By a HindOO Lecturer at a WO-
mans Congress.
WEARFEATHERS
)n Their Heads Like an Indian
He Said.
And He Could See No Difference
Between Them.
This Speech Almost Led to a
RfOt-The HindOO Fled.

San Francisco, May "a Hindoo
calling himself the Brahmachrin BOP
habhiskshu, nearly created riot at the
meeting of the women's congress Sat
urday night by denouncing the women
of the west as savages, and declaring
that he had been insulted.
The women's gathering of bright wo-
men from all over the state has been
in session here all last week. The
Brahmacharin Bobhabhiskshu has been
picturesque figure at all of the meet
ings. Attired in a flowing gown of yell
low silk, and wearing huge turban,
his appearance was very striking. The
ladies have made much of the man
from India, who has passed as an ex-
ample OF humility and gentleneSS, and
he was invited to speak on the sub
ject, Religion as synonym of Educa-
ton.
Instead, he stepped forward and in
unqualified language attacked the con-
greSs, its motives and the honesty of
its speakers He was listened to with
suppressed Indignation, which finally
found expression in protests and Kisses.
And then, after several vain attempts
to be further heard, he strode, with
what he called bravery and herOism,'
from the scene. He announced that he
had been insulted, because, as he
aVerred on Thursday evening his flow
ing silken robes had been pulled by one
of the ladies While he was talking
pulled, he said, to insult him because
he was telling the truth in opposition
to the horrible and foolish doctrine of
her5dlty. I3Obha bhiSkSku attacked
women in general. He then called them
dishonest, and said:
The women of the west are savages.
VIII YOU tell me what is the difference
between the Indian who puts war
feathers in his hair and the woman
who puts feathers and flowers in her
hat?'
He then commenced a personal attack
on Mrs. Gardner, but his voice was
drowned by the storm of shouts and
misses from the audience. When, final
~, quiet was restored, the Hindoo ex-
claimed: 4 Will go like a hero; 1 will
pc brave he gathered his sill1en
robes about him and strobe from the
stage. Surrounded by friends, he was
escorted to the furnace room and let
out into the street through the coal
holes.
The views of the Brahmacharin
Bokhabhiskshu and the leaders of the
WOman'S congress concerning the cpl
sOde of Saturday night are as conflict
ing and irrecOncilable as the antagonis-
tic theories regarding heredity which
started the trouble.
Christ called the Pharisees and Sad
ducees hypOcrites a generation of
terday, and they crucified him. 1 told
the people the truth and they said
Away with him
on the other hand, Mrs. Gardener in
Inmates that the Brahmacharin is not
sane and that he is not q gentleman;
Mrs. Swift, chairman of the congress,
says he does not tell the truth, and
Mrs. White and Mrs. Oulton insist that
they did not pull his gown. Colonel
G. Seldom Smart, husband of Mrs. Car
dener says the Brahmacharin insulted
all the ladies. He had to break in to
call him to time.
AS for the Brahmacharain, after
causing all the trouble, after telling the
women they had stepped on the head
of a rattlesnake, and after having said
his say in words that burned, he has
T1gA
smiles at the incident as the mere cpl
sode of an hour, and declines to explode
pyrotechnicaIly again. He went to
PaIo Alto yesterday and there talked
to the students of Stanford university.
He was well received, the day was
pleasant and he returned to this city
in a frame of mind which indicated
the perfect intellectual equipoise of the