The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-09
FoR INDIA.s STARVING WOMEN.
Christian women of This Country
Aiding Them.

Aiding Ihem.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Ur-
ion is doing noble work for the relief
of the starving millions of people in In
dla The members Of the union in Savan-
nah are doing their share in the work
The committees in charge of the relief
work ask that any articles of clothing or
material be sent to the president of the
union, at No. lis Ogiethorpe avenue, west.
Mrs. Jeanette Hauser, who was
number of years ago, the w. c. I. U.
organizer in India. and was the first Wo-
mans Christian temperance Union pres
ident in that country, has been put In
charge of the relief movement in this
country. Her headquarters are in Del
aware, Ohio. In a letter of appeal
through the Union Signal she says:
In the appeals for help for famine
stricken India, the overwhelming need for
food has been the chief and often the only
demand presented The need for clothing
is usually only incidentally mentioned
nevertheless, 1t is scarcely less important
than food. Those who have seen famine
in India knows that the photographs of
the starving people, such as are published
In various illustrated papers, are not par
millions more just like them, save in one
respect-those photographed have been
furnished with bit of loin cloth to make
the picture descent In our eyes
The much hoped for rains. which should
begin in June, the only hope of salvatlo
from starvation for the millions will new
ertheless prove the almost i'm
mediate death of a vast null
titude. Their emaciated forms without
clothing of any sort for protection by day
or night, will be unable to withstand the
chill of the rain, and particularly the eff
feet of sleeping on the damp ground
Dysentery and fever win sweep like a
scourge over the country. The few rem
nants of clothing which the people may
possess are filed with disease germs.
For months after the. stress for food may
have passed, there will be incalculable
need for clothing. Clothing Is the first
necessity that they do without when fam
inc comes, and it is the last which they
dare supply. Food must first be earned,
then tools and seed and grain and shell
ter.
"Hundeds of thousands of the famine
sufferers have not so much as a yard of
muslin for their entire wardrobe. Keen as
has been their hunger, women have beg
ged piteously for a bit of covering rather
than food. Many an earnest, tender
hearted woman has said: I cannot write
newspaper dfI1cleSs L CANNOT speak III
public meetings, nor conduct them; If there
was anything 1 could do, how gladly would
J.! Can you not call extra meetings of
church guilds, benevolent or literary So
cieties, tea meetings or social circles and
turn them into sewing bees? A Hindu
woman actually needs but two garments
"a skirt and a chadar or veil. Hundreds
of thousands of these are needed. To make
the skirt take five yards of print, Bingham,
1annelette, or any closely woven cotton
goods. and sew the two ends together.
Along one edge of 30-inch print add eight
inches of Turkey red dark blue, or any
contrasting color of cotton goods Turn
down hem 111A inches wide and run in
a stout drawing string. To the bottom add
a 3-inch bias strip of the same material
as used at the top. Turn up a 2-inch hem,
leaving one inch of the bias strip as adj
ditional length. The veil should be plain
color of white, red, dark blue, or any of
the bright colors as produced In cheese
CLOTH 1t may be any sort of thick or thin
cotton material, stout unbleached muslin.
cheese cloth, remnants of dress lining, old
muslin or lace curtains; anything of the
kind, only it must be three yards long
and IL yards wide. Thousands of hard
working meni would wear around their
shoulders such chadar of stout white
muslin in lieu of a jacket, and 1t would
serve them as wrapping at night. Native
OHTlSlldt women ana niue girls wear
skirts with plain hens of the skirt ma
terials at top and bottom, and many such
could be made Bundles of remnants
should be added TO the parcels for MAX
ing jackets and trousers or divided skirts
for Mohamedan women, which could be
better done in India.
Cast off clothing, as hats, bonnets.
dress waists. jackets and mems wearing
apparel are entirely unsuitable for disfri-
button In india All manner of sheets,
blankets and quilts are greatly needed.
When these are made of new material
they should be three yards IN length ard
from IL to IL yards in width as such
viii answer for day as well as night wear
The small amount that many a young girl
spends within a month for candy would
suffice to buy material for veil and skirt
for some poor Hindu woman. The gar
ments are so simply made that even a
child could accomplish the work and If
she were also to mark her name on the
border it might be whispered In many a
prayer of blessing by the wearer.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby the goods will be forwarded free
of charge from Chicago. Many thousands
OF garments are being sent to India by
English women, which will be distributed
through government relieving stations
Contributions of clothing from America
will be distributed through mission agen-
cies.
Contributions of clothing or material
will be received by 1. i. Hauser, 7l3 Tenn
pie Court 225 Dearborn street, Chicago,
ILL.,, or by Mrs. j. G. Hauser, at Della
ware Ohio. and viii be Immediately &C.
knowledged. AN packages must be mark
ed india Relief" and express charges
must be prepaid. 1t may be more con-
venient for some to contribute money.
Such gifts win be forwarded to India to
purchase clothing for women who wear
saris, a single wrapping of from FIVE
to seven yards.
THE Joy of the people in receiving the
garments kindly donated by ladies in Eng
land and America during the famine three
years ago, was unbounded. Old men and
women, as well as children laughed nnd
wept danced and shouted in admiration
and gratitude. Many letters have been re-
ceived from missionaries and English Off
cials with most touching accounts of the
distribution of the garments and the I'M
speakabe gratitude OF those who received
and of the bitter disappointment of those
who could not be supplied. In this prese 40
famine the need is tenfold greater than
three years ago"
Mrs. Webb will forward any contribu-
tionS of clothing that NAV be made iu