New-York tribune., 1900-04-30
CONFERENCE SIDE LIGHTS.
INTERESTING STORIES TOLD BY DELE
GATES FROM THE ORIENT-SAD
FATE OF MISS REED.

Every women II Jaffua. Ceylon, is land
owne-" said Mrs T. Smell smith, delegate at the
F-cuueniczI Conference, 70 q Tribune reporter
yesterday. Mrs. Smith has spent twenty-seven
years II Ceylon q missionary under the Amer
ican Board lConErega-onalist) This is state of
things" she continued that is probably not found
II any other mission field. The property there de-
scends from mother 10 daughter. instead of from
father 70 son. one Of the Christian native women
Is agent for the British India Steamship Company.
Another who has wealth. Is devottng her time and
money 70 work among native women and children"
Ms. Smith IS q daughter Of the Rev. DR.. s. B.
Fairbank, missionary 10 India and q well known
Naturalist She was born IN India and came to this
country after her mothers death. when she
seven years Old IN the care Of the captain Of
shp. The journey occupied several months, the
course lying around Cape Horn Upon completing
her education she returned 70 India
IT once asked Corean woman said Mrs ". NJ.
Baird. & delegate 70 the Conference from Pyeng
Eeng Corea. IF Coreaa man loved his wife.
After considerable hesitation the replied
that there might possibly be such a case, but it
vas very rare. The wives selected in child
hood and without regard their suitability. The
absence 0S home love Is Of the pitiabe features
OF the Orient There -= really no home life in
Corea, because women are not recognized in the
home = man meets his wife on the street he
does not notice her, while she, If she him IN
time slips out Of sight I she can. When Christian
homes are established The women find measure Of
love hitherto unknown TO them
Mrs Baird told a pathetic story OF little hunch-
back boy whom her husband found in q remote part
q Corea- L district in which, until Mr.
Baird's visit white people had never been seen,
but some travelling native Christians had visited
the boys home and left several tracts. Through
them the boy got hold OF The main facts of Chris
tanity. and had not only discarded his ancestral
60 s-ot @orS.P put n5c llcQced ne eIlre IaI1lly
these people cling 10 the worship Of their ancestors
Miss Mary Reed. whose name appears on the
programme OF the Ecumenical Conference Is not
n this country but IS working among the Iepers
o. India Mss Reed Is herself d leper. She dIscov-
cred spot upon her arm during visit 10 her
home II this country some years ago, and sur
prised and grieved her mother and friends by her
sudden determination 10 return 10 India and by
the c1sta1r manner n which she bade them goodby
L was not until she had gone that they knew the
cause % her sudden coIdness and departure
Miss Reed consulted eminent physicians in Lon
oon, who pronounced the disease & dangerous
type of leprOsy and assured her that IL would
spread rapidly She Went al once TO India. Some
OF Miss Reeds friends who believed in faith cure
determined that through means her life should
larger She lives alone but her friends visjt az
Aer home The dishes and utensils that she uses
are never employed by them. however.
Mrs. Richard Winsor viii sail tomorrow on her
return trip ID her work in Sirur India During
conversation with Tribune reporter yesterday
sne stated that when they bought their home in
s-rur there included with il a small heather
temple with cobras which We're the god and
goddess Of the shrine. The cobras disappeared
lEfo thick cactus hedge and have been there for
nineteen years.
In The strur Station Girls School" said Mrs.
Wnsor there are ninety girls renreserr.ro ,tra
cirerent casIes. All come 10 the school bfjt the
+t-hrnlls. A course Of instruction from me
primary rnrou2h the high school Is given and sew
---s ana cooking are taught Famine has broken
Gown The barriers between he Deople
~ he Villages Where previously thew allowed
add
le SrUr station distributed I'VE hundred big sacks
~ grain 70 The starving people during the present
famine. and through that means We were sbIe -
save thousands OF lives -