New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-27
SISTER NIVEDITA'S PLANS.
HER EDUCATIONAL WORK FOR THE
GIRLS OF NDA-A RAMA
KRISHNA SCHOOL.
KRISHNA SCHOOL.

Sister Nivedita. OF the Order OF Ramakrishna-
will leave New-York tomorrow for Paris, on her
way India where she hopes TO resume work in
the autumn
Z Noble an English woman. whose interest in
India led 70 her joining the Vedantic order in
which she is enrolled. She came to the United
States some months ago in the interest Of the
Rzmakrtshna School for Girls, about 10 be estab-
Hshed IN Calcutta Miss Noble says:
Il is wholly mistake TO suppose that have
renowned either my nationality or my religion IN
- nIIrser1 IN Which nv snirital thought was
trained In acquiring the larger lessons OF life
that come when the world opens TO Us, We do not
relounce the valuable teachings Of the nursery.
,9,J- 49, - - ne &C
Many Is really One. Infinite, Eternal. Unchangea-
a. 6-s " have srnrehAr5a5 The RAaI The Findoo
led from the Unreal to the Real.
in England who was disciple OF Swami Vlveka-
--a 80 p.aGo M Ii- -. 49, 49,,
had 10 DO TO learn Bengal none OF the
months I had ACQUIRED a working knowledge of
The language. 50 that opened my school 1t was
was less than q year learned what was really
attempt TO establish such q school under the
auspices Of the order and especially Of the Swami
Ny OBJECT is to educate the Htndoo girl as
without any irapertinent interference With her re-
serious mistake in such Interference The Hindoos
Tar II advance Of US in social problems. AS a
people they are on much higher level intellectual
" and spiritually Our cultivation is muscular and
The human brute is TO be found with in every
grade OF society, while in India he is unknown
BE- left for their own initiative and all desirable in
Even the prescribed cooking among the Hindoos
Is indicative OF their exquisite refinement. They
viii use nothing, not even q vegetable that looks
Ike blood. Onions are regarded as having an evil
magnetism Cheese IS refused because it is i'll
OF famine. bur life would they eat beef.
In everything there is the revolt Of refinement
At present our efforts must be directed TO the
vii % Eor1e ea5ar - ens.isifza ~ 1--ioI, 800
- - +5-T eaeFE 10 Specialize y! various sOed
English language, literature, elementary mathe-
mates and some one elementary. science with ex-
IRENE thorouEhness. and manual training. begin
ming il The kindergarten. and finally reviving old
1nQlah lnous1rles anc arts believe that manual
training gives more effectiveness 70 character than
Oriental women are much more tenacious OF Gus
tom and OF the OLD form of training than the men
case the ALTERNATIVES of the protection Of the
ChurcFr-and thar earlv Economic causes have
postponed the usual age Of this solemn betrOthal
between the ceremony and the day Of entering the
rnother-ia-laWs household. at about the age Of
bride in visits alternately to the old home and the
Should the husband die during these years the
cir is as much z widow as If she had already
ki-5 CONSTITUTE me Lass known as .ic7d widows
are expected to embody q specially high ideal of
austerry and devotion. But in return for this they
meet with the approval and respect Of all about
them. and not-as has mistakenly been sup
pOseC-WiCh hatred ana contempt
7 all goes happily. however. the bride at twelve
becomes 4 wife fourteen, and passes into a
position OF cuty and responsibility IN the home Of
her husband.
We intend. II we succeed in acquiring means to
buy house and piece Of land the banks Of the
tFarges Calcutta. and there take IN some
twenty widows and twenty orphan g1rls-the whole
connllniry 10 be under the guidance and authority
q SErs6a Dew.
an sure that the plan viii succeed. have
round much sympathy and encoura cement in
america Two New-York women have given the
outk Of The money have received here, one con-
Elbu-ing S50o5 and 5000 and Ramakrlshna
GUILD % Help IN America has been formed. from
which We expect much. Mrs. Francis H. Leggett
IS ire president Mrs Ole Bull, Of Cambridge. IS
Natioral secretary. and there are branches in a
number Of the large cities.
Miss Noble is an earnest woman, and wears the
simple black gown of the order Her only orna-
iaent Is HtodOo rosary. which differs from the
Roman Catholic n having los beads instead Of 100.
y = older than the Roman Catholic, and is in
fenced merely aid concentration of
thought.