The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-01-27
MICHIGAN PEOPLE
LIVE IN W|LOS
Of INDIA
REV. AND MRS. w. r. DoWD. MIS-
sIoNARIEs, RETURN TO ANN
AReoR-TIoERs AND WILDCATS
INFECT REGION.

ANN AhBOh, MICH, Jan. -i.--IlON
would an American girl like TO live
in country where she might do her
own proposing. where she might wear
dozens OF heavy earrings all at one
time and where the property descend
ed. not from father TO son, but from
mother to daughter?
Such a country she can fnd in north
ern India, among the foothills or the
Himalaya mountains. Il Ann Arboi
at the present time are three people
who have spent several years In thai
far-away country as missionaries
Rev and Mrs. w. +. Dowd, OF l2s
South Fourteenth-st. and guess
whom they are entertaining for week
Miss Ella c. Bond.
For sixteen years Miss Bond has
been a missionary teacher at Tura
Caro- Hills, Assam. She went there In
1885 remaining until 1894 and return
ed again from 1899 TO 1908. She now
has a two years furlough from the
field and she has come home for a
visit. Her former home was in Con
nectfcut and before going 10 India she
was q student at Nassar. She expects
TO return 70 her missionary work this
fall
Mr.. and Mrs Dowd were sent as
missionaries TO Asia in 1900 and they
we're stationed a. Impur, Maya Hills.
Here their three small children were
born. Miss Bond, while visiting their
station, met them and all returned 10
America together. They started on
their trip Just year ago yesterday.
Part OF the journey can be made b.
river but over fifty miles must be
travelled on horseback, in single file,
then bride path. up and down rocky
hills and fording streams. 1t took
the party two months and two days to
reach New York
Is Wild Region.
The two stations are a ten days
Journey apart. Miss Bond is located
about 500 miles north OF Calcutta.
the Dowds were three times that far.
Miss Bond can reach her station by
steamer and a thirty ride in a
wheeled carriage
The region is infected with tigers
and wildcats and no one Is surprised
when the stock In the barns is killed
by leopards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dowd settled in Ann
Arbor last fall that Mr.. Dowd. who
took his 3. ID. degree at Colgate,
might spend his furlough doing medi-
cal work at the U. OF NJ. Miss Bond
and Mr.. and Mrs. Dowd were all sent
by the Baptist church, and Miss Bond
gave a talk TO the Baptist Juniors on
her school work
She il located at an English gov
rernment station, which now has about
500 native soldiers stationed there.
formerly much more than that num-
Der. The missionary school is about
a mile from the garrison. II is a mid
die English" school, with pupils all
the way from the primary grade up
There are about 200 boys and 80 or
40 girls. Apparently there is not
much demand for higher education on
the part OF the girls. On the other
hand there is no objection TO co-edu-
cation. The schools were started sep
arately but were later united. There
are about 100 village schools among
the Caro- tribe. The Caro- Hills en-
braces territory about two-thirds the
sixe OF Connecticut.
The tribe had no written language
In the '70s. They will have very little
literature In their own language. At
first the missionaries had to teach in
the Bengali language but they now
teach In English and from text books
IN the native language. Miss Bond and
fsnother missionary have just complet-
ed a transliteration of the New Test
ament into the native language and 1t
rs being printed at Canandaigua, N. Y.
When missionaries were first sent to
them the people were the lowest saw
ages, but they are gradually beginning
TO adopt civilized ways. Some are be-
coming quite intelligent. One young
man OF the tribe Is now studying at
Granville, Ohio, to fit himself for
teacher.
Women and Men Equal.
The women do not occupy the same.
position as In many OF the lower
tribes but stand on more of an equal
ity with the men. Property descends
from mother to daughter. The sons
OF q family are practically lost when
they marry for they go to their wives
homes. IL is therefore necessary 10
have daughters to support the par
ents I'm their old age.
Proposals OF marriage In the matori.
fy OF cases come from the womau's
side OF the house, usually through
the maternal uncles. Il know of
number OF instances" said Miss Bond.
where the proposals came directly
from inc young women"