The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-03-22
H1NDoo WARNS HER SEX.
Student from India Says Her Ameri-
can Sisters Eat Too Much Ment
and Dress Too Much.

II,
land and travelling in Europe for near
ly nine years, is at present in this coun-
try to study conditions here and to
compare Americans with other people
she has known. She is the daughter OF
rich Indian merchant, and went to
England in the care of an English fam
ily to be educated. With this family
she has resided in London for the
greater part of her absence from
home, and she is now the guest in New
York of friends of her English guard
ians, reports the Sun of recent date.
She is woman of unusual mental
powers and seemingly Of great earnest
ness of purpose.
IL am in the United States" she said
to an interviewer, "as l have been in
Canada, to see the people. l have seen
but a section of the great northwest
"a region of the future, 1 should say;
parts of the lake country, several of
your great cities, notably Chicago and
Boston, together with some manufac-
turing towns, and now New York.
"Just here / may say, without in the
least desiring to be critical that the
finest specimens of womanhood have
seen in the world / met in several of the
western states, particularly in Mon
tana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan
and Illinois"
"In what respect did they impress
your"
"In their bodily and mental vigor,
independence of character and action;
in word, in their completeness. And
there is nothing on earth to be COM
pared with their spirit of comrade-
ship and hospitality. The absence of
classes in the west helps to make the
people the charming natural men and
women that they are. They are clever,
too, inventive and creative, and solv-
ing problems as they meet them. One
sees the spirit of a great people, and it
is moving force in that glorious re-
gion.
81 think them the most patriotic
Americans have met, the most APP
preciative of the blessings of re-
publican form Of government and the
most hopeful for its future. Conserv-
atism is a word the meaning of which
they DO not appear to know, and their
tolerance and catholicity makes them
what they are, sincere and high
minded
"In the east the people seem more
cautious and reserved, certainly more
prejudiced as to color and race. This
is not said in condemnation; 1t is mere
" to emphasize the exceptional traits
of the people of the west. The excep-
tional women here represent the ideal
woman, and when a majority of your
women become what few are already
then will you see free people, then
will you have republic in reality, not
in semblance. This country lacks what
all the world lacks. great women.
"Men all over the world are trying
to rule each other. Women are in the
background sharing all the disabilities,
bearing unequal burdens. Women are
discovering that the secret of supreme
power lies in self-rule and they are
learning self-control, self-culture and,
less rapidly but surely, self-justice. 1
advocate woman's acknowledgment
from conditions far more vital to her
immediate well being than the voting
privilege would give her now. would
see her the real world power, and this
she will become after she has attained
her full self-sovereignty-I am using
idle words unless ! impress you with
the deep significance of my meaning on
this point.
"Old and young alike wear head COW
erings that are grotesque to vulgarity.
All classes are ruled by fashions
fashions that soon are supplanted by
Others no less ridiculous. In your
churches the dress of women is incom-
patible with real worship.
II went to the grand cathdral here
| on Sunday last and stood looking over
the congregation. 1t made me think
of a vast barnyard, with here and there
| an OSTRICH feather, that was q re-
| minder of other fowls than the domes-
| ticated chicken. ] read in the papers
| the other day that one Of your wealthy
women here, who is accounted phi
lanfhropist, went into a butchers shop
with number of poor women in whom
| she was interested and stood with
| them watching butcher cut meat,
| and explained the names and uses OF
the various sections Of the poor beast
| What comment this is on the degree
| Of your civilization. Do you really
hope for much from the uneducated
when The educated are 20 ignorant Of
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