Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-02-26
HINDOO WARNS HER SEX.
Student from India Says Her Ameri-
can Sisters Eat Too Much Meat
and Dress Too Much.

Miss Balu Padsfngh, Hindoo by
birth, who has been studying in Eng
land and travelling in Europe for near
~ 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
a rich Indian merchant, and went to
England in the care of an English fam
lily 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>a woman of unusual mental
powers and seemingly of great earnest
ness of purpose.
81 am in the United States" she said
to an interviewer, "as I have been in
Canada, to see the people. / have seen
but a section of the great northwest
"a region of the future, 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 l me t in several of the
western states, particularly in Mon
tana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan
and Illinois,
''In what respect did they impress
you?"
''In their bodily and mental vigor
independence, of character and action
in a 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 ane
women that they are. They are clever
too, inventive and creative, and solv
ing problems as they meet them. One
sees the spirit of great people, and i
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 a re
publican form of government and the
most hopeful for it's future. Conserv
atism is a word the meaning of which
they do not appear to know, and theil
tolerance and catholicity makes then
what they are, sincere and higl
| minded.
'In the east the people seem NOR.
cautious and reserved, certainly more
prejudiced as to color and race. Thi!
| is not said in condemnation; it is mere
~ to emphasize the exceptional traitl
Of the people of the west. The excep
tionaI women here represent the idea
woman, and when a majority of your
women become what few are already
then wall you see free people, theI
will you have republic in reality, mo-
in semblance. This country lacks what
| all the world lacks, great women.
"Men all over the world are tryins
| to rule each other. Women are in tn,
background sharing all the disabilities
bearing unequal burdens. Women ar,
discovering that the secret of suprem.
power lies in self-ruie and they are
| learning self-control, self-culture and
less rapidly but surely, self-justice.
| advocate woman's enfranchisemen'
! from conditions far more vital to hel
immediate well being than the voting
privilege would give her now. woult
see her the real world power. and thii