The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-22
INTERESTING '.EIE S I 4 G! !. !. I
LECTURE ON
THE ORIENT |!
Delivered at the Third Presbyterian
Church on Sunday Eve n
ming by
MARY HALLEcK BRADDOCK
A Returned Missionary-Tells Of the
nablts and Customsiof the Peo-
,5 pies Of the Far East.

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At the Third Presbyterian church last
evening, Mrs, Mary Halleck Braddock.
Of steubenville, an East India mission
airy. who recently returned to America
from the far east via China, delivered
an interesting and Instructive lecture
on her travels, She gave some inter
estlng facts concerning the habits and
customs OF the. inhabitants OF the
Orient at the present day. 5s
Mrs. Braddock began by inviting at
,entlon to the missions that had been
established in India and assured her
hearers that the natives fully realize
the material aid that Is being extended
to them by the Americans. She then
referred to her sojourn in China at the
time she was on her way home to
America. She spoke particularly Of
the difficulties In one section Of that
country, where hundreds OF Christian
missionaries had been massacred, and
thought that everybody should be In
terestcd in China at present. However,
she wished tho congregation to not for
get India and to retain in their hearts
q warm sense of sympathy for the sur
fering people OF that land.
She had seen the idol Of the goddess
OF their Imagination and which they
worship. She was a giantess and as
black as printers ink could make her.
Around her; Eeck was a string Of
skulls, and around her limbs were cir
cled the ugliest and vilest Of reptiles.
In describing the horrible conse-
quences OF the famine throughout the
country she pointed out the fact that
traffic Is everywhere disarranged and
evsry,life is in danger She was after
wards asked II the plague there Is
really as bad as is reported and would
have to answer that man can only die
and that It was really an utter impossl-
billty to fully present a word picture OF
the suffering and distress among those
people.
india really makes us" she contln-
ued, believe and approve Of things
that we have hitherto thought impos-
slble. or dctcst.d. Now I never did
believe in wife-beatlng until visited
India. heard one woman complaining
to her husband that she had no brace
lets. or rings or shining collars or belts
to wear like those possessed by one OF
the natives wives, and when she was
told by her husband that he could no.
.laflord to purchase such. Jewels for her
she went Into fit Of Mysteries. The
woman thew herself upon the ground,
and after rolling around and pulling her
hair. she ran TO a well and jumped into
It. She escaped uninjurcd In some man
ner. but 1t was indeed wonder that
she was not Killed. Her husband pro-
cured hand-bar switch and had to
resort to beating her with It in order
to pacify her. The women are not al
lowed to go out in public. 1t would be
immodest for Christian In that coun-
try to enjoy the same freedom in So
c!ety as we do and the courtship is, OF
course, under difficulty"
She explained that the natives. engag-
ed themselves to each other by letter
writing and that there was therefore
vry little counting. She realized that
those who contribute funds to the cause
OF mission work are always very an
xlous TO know Just how the money IS
being expended and how the work Is
progressing. The natives are soon per-
suaded to wash their faces, wash their
clothing and dress properly their chill
dren and send them to mission schoolc.
Mrs. Braddock closed her address by
briefly reviewing the excellent mission
work that had been accomplished in
India. especially during tho past few
years, and gave assurance that tho
Christian religion is able to reach the
natives OF that land.
D. .