Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

name Of Miss Corellis latest book or do
you know a really good recipe for hook
cup She will be Seeing you i'll an hour
or two at the club. but, like the people
who want the eight DreadnOughts, she
won't wait" Then there are peddlers.
beggars and pickering servants further
to disturb the siesta-that is II, as i say,
you are foolish enough to tolerate their
intrusion.
At the Club.
By 4:3O pm the Mem Sahib comes forth
dressed for the social fray at tennis. polo.
cricket or sports ground. or at the band
Then follows an hour at the club II is a
serious social duty this appearance at the
club during the hour between sunset and
dinner. Many like it. on the other hand.
many do not. The Mem Sahibs gather in
the garden or I'm the ladies' room in a
forbiddng ring, which only the boldest OF
men would dare to break into. and here
they hold their court and discuss not the
weather, or politics or even servants-but
the affairs Of the station. New arrivals
are. so 10 speak arraigned a the bar, tried
and judged-often not too mercifully. Mrs.
Jones new hat and the lady herself are
keen criticised, and pretty we'll every
thing in the station comes up for review.
ANY time between s and $3.50 pm. Is
the dinner hour, the time varying with
locality and season. There is far more
entertaining in the way of dinner par
ties in India than at home. OFTEN one
has to fly home to entertain at dinner
men and women from whom one had
parted but half an hour before at the
club, and in a small station We live
socially. so to speak. by taking in each
others washing: everybody entertaining
everybody else in turns, and the same
old faces turning UP at different 'fes-
tive boards
Naturally, under such conditions, con-
versation at dinner is apt to be a mere
rechauffe OF the afternoons chatter at the
club, and there is much Of the intimacy
and frankness of big and on the whole
happy family at Anglo-lndian dinner par
ties. This sometimes makes things a tri-
fle humdrum, hut on the other hand the
hostess is saved the trouble of making
conversation. and can leave her guests to
look after themselves I'm way she could
not do in England. Tired out with the
heat. and her numerous duties. the Men,
Sahib gets to bed about midnight.
On the Frontier.
OF course her life. is not always so
humdrum as I have painted. The wife
who follows her lord to some far-flung
frontier post may find herself embroiled
in the stern realities of war. Then, too,
there is the sense of always living on the
edge of a volcano. and every now and
again the volcano heaves and wakes. and
life is anything but dull. My object,
however, has been just to give you an
idea of an E.nglishwomans daily life in
India under ordinary conditions. and to
warn those of my sex whose future will
he In the east not to expect too much.
The Mem-Sahib enjoys some special ad-
vantages: she shares in the lives and
pursuits OF her menkind in way that
She cannot do in England: she gets an
aC.Ilrt ri -aN"tY. anus. n.,lt. and atttfl-
ton she could not hope for at home; and
she lives in land Of many and compelI-
ing destinations. On the other hand,
she does not leave domestic cares behind
her with the Suez canal; rather does she
increase them.