The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-04-06
Godhra, Panch Mahals,
February 6, 1910.

| Godhra, Panch Mahals,
February 6, 1910.
Dear Epworth Leaguers:-
Every Sunday evening wish could
run in and enjoy the League service,
but the distance is to great to do so,
thus the only thing to do is to live the
service In imag nation.
| have been thinking of you all to-
day and thought you would enjoy
letter right from mission station out
in the jungles.
Bombay and almost north. There are
about rs, 900 people in Godhra, but they
are scattered over large territory.
There are number OF small villages
all around us. There are very few
English speaking people and very few
OF the natives know English.
Our compound is on the government
road and there are hundreds of native
! folks and bullock carts pass here daily.
We see twenty men to every one
woman. The place is chiefly Moham-
medan and all the high caste women
are never seen out in public.
The lower caste women are the bur-
| den bearers. You will see man going
along with very small bundle and his
wife or servant a few yards behind him
with great bundle on her head, per-
haps child under one arm and another
large bundle or vessel of some kind in
the other hand. The women do all, or
most all, of the hard work.
They do things almost opposite from
what we do. They sit on the floor, eat
with their fingers, sleepi in their clothes,
use their garments for towels, clean
their teeth with stick, think toilet
soap thing to be admired rather than
used, love dirt, hate hot water, love
bright colored clothing, very few wear
shoes or stockings and none Of the
women wear hats OF any kind.
They are extremely slow and to any
one who is doing things in hurry it is
quite tax on patience to have to wait
on them. "Juldy" is the word for hur-
ry, but most Of them move slower when
you say ''juldy" than before 1t was said.
They vary In looks and disposition
just as we do and their trials and temp
tations are much like ours. Some Of
the girls are bright and some very dull.
Some are very good while others are
very naughty. They try you In every
way possible, but II they find that you
can get ahead OF them and mean just
what yon say, they admire you very
much and obey very we'll.
We have three blind girls, number
OF lame girls and quite few sick ones.
The girls have little missionary So
ciety OF their own ard they want to do
something for some one else outside OF
their own country. We were delighted
with the idea and are doing all we can
to make the society success.
They need great deal of training
and it takes the greatest patience in
order to bring the most possible good
out of them. They have many good
qualities and respond very quickly
when you show that you really love
them and are interested in them. I
wish so often that | was two in place of
one and that could speak the language
without taking time to learn it. I am
getting along very well, however. They
tell me talk with my hands and eyes.
No matter how talk, they understand
me and l am SO glad they can.
In our Orphanage we have about two
hundred girls. They are all sizes and
all ages from two to twenty-one or two.
Our school house is red brick and
the church is lighter colored brick.
The folk, all but the teachers and mis-
sionaries, sit on the floor and some.
times we do also. I am treasurer and
l am doing my best to put things on
self-supporting basis, but am not sure
that 1 can succeed.
The country is beautiful and they say
that when the rains come it Is still
more beautiful. There is very pretty
lake just short distance from here
and it is beautiful place to go.
The dust on the road is in most places
over an inch and 1t gets deeper and
deeper as the hot season draws near.
Fleas, mosquitoes, bats, crows and jack
ais are abundant. The jackals cry
at night and sometimes they come right
into our compound. At first l could
MT sleep for their crying, but 7 am