The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-27

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Lady Curzon is going back to Eng
land? OF course she is" said the woman
with the ermine muff. ''But to say that
she and her husband are leaving India on
account of her health is a diplomatic fib.
The real reason would not be accepted as
sufficient by good Britons. She is leaving
India for exactly the same reason that
any other American woman in the same
position would leave India-to be with
her children. Anglo-Saxon children cannot
live in the Indian climate and are almost
invariably sent home as soon after they
are born as possible. Why l knew one old
nurse who had made no less than three
trips from England to India and back
again, each time TO go after and bring
to England one of her mistress's children.
When visited the family of the children's
aunt, whose care they were in, the three
children were in vigorous health and spirits
and the faithful old nurse was preparing
TO make fourth trip to the east to bring
home the latest addition to the family.
The mother of these exiled babes had seen
none of them after the age of three
months. Each summer she had planned to
go TO England on visit, but for various
reasons 1t had been put of, and when l
made their acquaintance the eldest baby
was seven years old. and, of course, hadn't
the slightest recollection OF her parents.
Being an American, Lady Curzon would
not consent to even q partial separation
from her two little girls. She took them
out to India with her against the advice
of her more experience English friends,
and in her wilful American way imagined
she could succeed where others had failed.
She had trained nurses and she is a most
devoted mother, experimenting every de-
tail of nursery life herself, but the chill
dren'S health suffered from the climate,
and their mother has had to admit that
India is not the place for them. so she is
coming home. British mother would
have sent them home"
(which goes TO prove that American
women are more devoted mothers than
wives?" asked she of the sable toque
Yes, I'm afraid 1t does. British mothers
are accustomed to being separated from
| their children. The grown up girl marries
and goes to Australia, the boys go to South
| Africa or Canada or the States. They take
| TO the colonies as ducks to water, and their
mothers seem to bear it with the pious
| resignation which has given the nation a
name for stolidity, but makes for it's
wondrous pluck and stocism.
THE women of the country in which
Mary Letter Curzon was born cleave to the
| children. The husband is a secondary con-
Sideration. And even the British matron
| will not deny him his crown as the best
| husband in the world.
"You mean the most indulgent don't
| your
| Its the same thing from an American
womans point of view. When the Amer
lean cnlld health or education requires
| that he should go to Germany for the
waters or go to France for lessons or to
| Egypt for the balmy air, the American
mother packs her trunk, tells her hus-
band and takes the child away. She may
| stay six months or she may stay five
| years, but ii depends altogether on the
| progress of the childs health or studies
| not on the impatience of the husband and
| father at home. When the boy grows ur
he does not fly off TO the ends of the earth
| To make his living. He may possibly &c
| West or East. but he Is within few days
journey of his mother at most. The
| daughter may marry a title and go abroad
| to live with her husband all the year
| round, after the fashion of European wives
| but her mother sees her at least once a
| year, and If she feels so inclined stays
| abroad for a year or so, leaving her con-
| sort to work in his blessed busy way, and
| dine at his club instead of at home as he
| learned to do in the early days of his mar
| ried life, when the boy needed German
| lycees and the girl French atmosphere &c
| smooth off their American angles