Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-30
WOMAN'S RESTORATION
LEAGUE Is ACTIVE
Workers In India Make Report of Sat-
isfactory Progress in Interesting
Native H!ndus in Cause

Eight years ago Miss j. M. Holmes
and Mrs. c. p. Wallace of Los Angeles
went to India to investigate the status
of womanhood. They found the con-
ditionS of child marriage so deplorable
that on their return Mrs. Wallace
threw herself heart and soul into the
work of arousing the women of Amer
lea to an interest in their little brown
sisters across the sea. AS result, the
Woman's Restoration league of Los
Angeles was organized, and with this
as a center auxiliary societies were
formed in many of the leading cen
ters of the country.
Last fall Mrs. Wallace and Miss Car
RE Tenant of Los Angeles, both or-
ganizers of the league, made a general
tour through California and the east
AS a result of their work some forty
or more circles We're organized, each
member pledged to 81 year for five
years in support of the work contem-
plated in India. From over the waters
had come so urgently the Macedonian
cry come over and help us" that the
league felt that the time was ripe for
its organizers to go.
After a brief stop in London, Paris
and Geneva, where they left groups
of women aroused to assist the cause
these two brave women sailed for Cal
CullcLI W4-C4 Z t4lES Ilc- FC bSCIl 4eAlu a
work for several months Their re-
ports are very encouraging to their
supporters in Los Angeles.
Many of the leading men Of Calcutta
and elsewhere are working With deter
mination to abolish child marriage and
to raise the marriage age to l6 years
Mr.. MorendrO Nath Sen, editor of the
Calcutta Indian Mirror is doing every
thing in his power through his news
IN = ho 1gg 1.faflr ri
he is making continual appeals to his
countrymen to assist IN bettering the
conditions Of Womanhood and child
mood If they would promote the prog
ress OF India
In the Mirror Of April q, shortly
after the arrival of the organizers oi
the league, Mr.. Sen says: I'VE desire
TO accord a hearty welcome to the tW.
noble hearted ladies who have arrived
in Calcutta. We regard the movement
with which they are associated as one
that has dedicated itself to the mobiles!
EerVice of India. Those who plead 70!
Indian womanhood are to De reckoned
among our greatest benefaCtOrs." FIR
ther on in the article he says Pic
ture the condition Of Hindu girl
Her advent into the home is first the
cause Of much anguish and weeping
because she cannot be a bread winner
Of the difficulty of getting her settled
down in life. When she is hardly 10 OF
II years old there comes the inevitable
problem of matrimonY. At the age Of
IA or Is she becomes a mother, a few
years later her health and energy arc
gene, and before she has reached the
age of full grown youth sne is dis
tinguished by her bent form and rap
idly silvering hair. The offspring are
puny and sickly. Can we expect a
healthy, vigorous nation under these
circumstances?
The interest Of the Hindus is a
hopeful sign of the consummation Of
the leagues work in the near future.
The organizers are fun of enthusiasm
ana courage. They say they must
however, continue to receive from
America the financial and and influence
that have made the work so far pos
gibIe. Any one who may have the de-
sire to assist this cause can commune
cate with Mrs. f. p. Helfenstein, 1911
Temple street, treasurer Of the Cen
trail league.