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WOMEN
CRITlCISE CHRISTIAN
WOMEN.
Christian Women Don't Know How TO-
Dress, Battle, Eat or Brsathe-Don't
Know How to be Happy Don't
Know How to Live, Say Beautiful
Women Of India.

Know How to Live, Say Beautiful
Women Of India.
Three lovely women Of q n older c~iviliza'
ton here dare to do what few Americans
have ventured to c~riticise American wO'
men, says the Washington Post. They
have not been content to criticise. They
scold her. And each point out wherein
she fails, until it seems the poor American
has scarcely one dainty toe upon which to
stand.
One critic Is the Princess Suwarazhila
who is in London, and who will come to
America to show her American sister
what Is wrong in her manner OF living.
Another tells the American woman that
she is tactless, unkind, and ignorant. That
is the Maharanee, OF Baroda, who owns
million OF dollars worth OF jewels. A
are the most unhappy In the world, and
here She tells why. She is the Princess OF
Kooch-Behar. All are Indian women.
American q unquestiOnably
point to the beam In their critics eyes
child marriage, suffice and other curious
Indian practices, for instance. Neverthe-
less, the Opionions are interesting.
BY THE MAHARANEE OF BARODA.
The women of your big vast, young
country, I confess, dissapoint me. l had
the French women in their two most
striking qualities Of chic and vivacity
that they dressed far better than the En-.
glish women; were as coQuettish, though
In franker way, as the Spanish; chat they
we're In short, as fascinating as the most
facinating women In the world-the Rus
sian, :.
Well, they are not, They are less chic
than the French women, because their
clothes are more exaggerated, less becom-
ing, and not always appropriate to the &C.
the princess gown worn without q coat on
the street, the open"worked stockings and
transparent blouses, also worn on the
street. Dreadful! Yet we hear that Ameri.
can women have the bourgeois merit OF
virtue. Perhaps the less I say about
these strange evidences Of 1t the better.
They dress better than the English wo.
men. More conspicuously, perh ps, but
their clothing Is not so durable, suggests
nothing Of the solid qualities of modesty
and station, as do the tweeds and broad
cloths worn by the English. Their co.
uuetry Is not attractive, for it possesses
no subtlety. The manner Of the American
woman who wishes to attract q man Is
that OF the boy who wants to play gol1
with him-as frank, a. devoid OF poetry.
1 understand that some American wo-
men make the proposals OF marriage.
That l do not doubt after watching them
make themselves agreeable to a man al
dinner. 1 am not surprised that American
men do not make love we'll. The women
save them the trouble. AS for the fas
citations Of the Russian women. No! NO
No! The Russian women are soft and
feminine. The American womtn are
masculine. The only softness about them
is in the stuffs with which they drape
| themselves not in their souls.
/ They are tactless; which ls only another
way OF saying "unkind:" They are 1gno
| rant. Else why should they ask me as
many did. "Are you an Ease Indian,
West Indian, or ar American 1ndian?" Ant
they are vulgar; else why should they
stare at me on the streets as they do al
the tigers In q circus parade merely be
cause I wear different and mOreireasonablt
garments than their own2
BY PRINCESS PETRTyEN OF ~KoOCH-BEHAR.
The women Of the rest Of the world arr
so unhappy. We OF India alone know tn
art Of happiness. I am glad that there II
an opportunity to carry the gospel o
peace into the nations OF the restless.
want to 20 to America, for 1t Is the mos
restless, unhappy land Of all.
l have been told that America Is yer!
rich. Yes, yes. But what OF that? W
Judge a nation by the status OF its womel
and the status Of the American women l
eternal unrest. One American woman
once said to mel have nothing bu
money, and I'm tired Of that!"
They lack that calm centre OF philosoph.
without which life is q whirlpool and tn,
world is In q vast turmoil.
They talk loudly. They try to b.
sprightly and only succeed in making
ugly faces. They are not enough alone
They do not read enough. They chatte
too much and think too little. Becaus
they do not take time to store them wei
by reading and contemplation, thei
minds are empty. At their present stag
human peacocks.
BY THE PRINCESS sUwARAsHnA.
To keep ones self perfect health, to pre-
serve ones beauty and prolong ones life
one must know how to breathe, to battle
and to eat. Alas! Who Of you Wester
ner's know what you ought OF these Sim
Die things? In all OF them you eOmmi
objectionable sins against the body ever.
day. ,
ihave not yet found one person out
side of India who thoroughly and per
fectly understands the art Of breathing
In the fist place, 1 find thousands o
mouth breathers. A mouth hreather to
Hindu is in the lowest stages Of ignorance
The mouth breather invites all sorts o
awful things. Yet, to my amaZement,
have been told that the women Of tn
West regard 1t as a point Of beauty Away
to appear with her mouth slightly opel
her lips parted. This horrifes me beyont
cr-'"" ;io" fc" In India only tn 9 feeble
minded OF lto go about with oper
mU1LIs, 10 a hindu the mouth breathel
is a disgrace, an abomination, q horror.
The nose and the nose only was designed
for breathing.
To a very great degree indigestion ant
liver troubles would be averted by propel
breathing. The stomach and liver are ex
ercised by full breathing, quite as mucf
as are the lungs. A deep breath acts a.
massage upon these organs and shmu
lants them to activity and health.
Nor do you understand the bath. Wit
YOU a bath means always water, while W,
have many baths. Should the body be fet
with only one article OF food? No Assured
ly not. Then why should the skin be al
ways bathed with water? The skin, lik'
the stomach, needs a change. In fact
there are times when water has an actual
ly bad effect upon the skin and 1t Is neces
sary to use a substitute.
We have baths Of oil and milk and egg
and wine and butter, and sand and coars
meal In fact, one should study the re
auirements of the skin az OF the stomach
and be as thoroughly sensible to Its nee'