Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-01-11
HlNDOO WARNS HER SEX
MISS BALU PADsINGH's VIEWS OF
AFFAIRS IN AMERICA.
Saws That Women Should Stop Eating
Meat and Wearing Furs
and Feathers.

| From the New York SUM-
Miss Balu Padsingh, Hindoo by birth,
who has been studying in England ana
| travelling in Europe for nearly nine years.
| is at present in this country to study con-
ditions here and to compare Americans
with other peoples she has known. she Is
tho daughter of rich Indian merchant.
| and went to England in the care OF an EN-
p,ish family to be educated. With this
| family she has resided in London LOT the
greater part of her absence from home,
and she Is now the guest in New York OF
friends of her English guardians. She Is a
| woman of unusual mental powers and
seemingly of great earnestness of purpose
"I am in the United States" she said to
an interviewer, las have been IN Cahaoa'
to see the people. Il have seen but a sec.
ton of the great northwest-a region OF
the future 1 should say; parts OF the lake
country several Of your great cities, nota-
bly, Chicago and Boston, together with
some manufacturing towns, and now Ne"
York.
"Just here I may say, without in the
least desiring to be critical, that the finest
specfmens Of womanhood 1 have seen In
the world I met in several of the western
states, particularly Montana, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois"
"In what respect did they impress your"
"In their bodily and mental vigor, indie
pendence of character and action; In a
word in their completeness. And there Is
nothing on earth, in kind, to be compared
with their spirit Of comradeship and nos
pitality. The absence of classes in the west
helps to make the people the charmingiy
natural men and women that they are
They are clever, too, inventive and creative,
and solving problems they meet them
One sees the spirit OF great people, ana u
is a moving force in that glorious region.
II think them the most patriotic Amer
leans have met, the most appreciative CT
| the blessings of a republican form of gov
eminent and the most hopeful for its fu-
ture. Conservatism 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.
Easterners Reserved.
"In the east the people seem more eau
tious and reserved, certainly more preju-
diced as to color and race. This is not said
in condemnation; it is merely to emphasize
the exceptional traits of the people Of the
west. The exceptional women here repre-
| sent the ideal woman, and when the major
ity 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-cul-
| ture and, less rapidly but surely. self JUS
tice. I advocate woman's enfranchisement
| from conditions far more vital to her i'm
| mediate well being than the voting priv
| ilege would give her now. I would see her
the real world power, and this she Will be-
come after she has attained her full self
sovereignty am using idle words unless
impress you with the deep significance of
my meaning on this point.
GrOtesque Headgear.
"Old and young alike wear head coverings
that are grotesque to vulgarity. All classes
are ruled by fashions-fashions that soon
are supplanted by others no less ridic-
ulous. In your churches the dress Of wo-
men is incompatible with real worship.
II went to the grand cathedral here on
Sunday last and stood looking over the con-
gregation. 1t made me think of a vast
barnyard, with here and there an ostrich
| feather, that was reminder of other fowls
than the domesticated chicken. 1 read in
| the papers the other day that one of your
wealthy women here, who is accounted
| philanthropist. went into butchers shop
with a number of poor women In whom she
was interested and stood with them watch
| ing butcher cut meat, and explained the
names and uses of the various sections of
the poor beast. What a comment this is on
| the degree Of your civilization. Do you
really hope for much from the uneducated
when the educated are so ignorant OF ethi-
| cal laws, to say the leastr'