Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-14
Miss ssrasVasli Bal HI
waIs 10 Attend School.
Fine Business Being Done al
Corn Canning Factory.
Death Tuesday Evening Of Sarah
". Foy, Aged IS Years.

Miss Seraswasti Bal HiWale (Ser-
aswas-t- Billie wah-e). who has been
staying with Dr.. and Mrs. Langdon
Quimby since the first of May, has
gone to East Mortified, Mass. where
she intends taking course in the
Northfcld Seminary. Having a bright
and pleasing personality, she had made
many friends during her stay here, and
she leaves Gardiner with regret. She
is a native Hindu. born in Wadala
CWah- dah-hah) in the bombay Presi-
deney, about &c miles from Bombay.
She is of the Christian Hindus, her
family having become Christians sew
eral generations aGo and she has re-
ceiXed. her. education in the mission
schools OF her native place.
All Of tlit. missionaries in the locality
in Wfft'h sir. lives are members OF our
American Board " Foreign Missions,
and through them, She iias become
deeply Interested, IN The opportunities
that this country offers, aud intensely
DESTROYS 81 8rasRing them Tor herself,
that She maS return "a her own coun-
try ana devote her life 10 enlighten
the ignorance ;tnd representation, now
hanging. like It blight over all India,
justly terGAed The cradle af the hu-
man race" "a see India freed from
these .ia.ttls which are no4 crushing
her industrial, moral and spiritual life
take her rishtfuf place among the ma
lions Of che earth; to see her women
free aud Independent: her vast agri-
cultural resources developed, to know
her people holding the highest ideals
of fntelecturai moral and spiritual de-
yelopment. is the dream Of her life,
and that she may aid in this realiza-
ton of this dream she has come 1z.t0o
miles to strange country 10 mingle
with a strange people 10 adopt strange
customs. speech and food, aHd TO en-
dure the rigor OF an unfriendly climate.
1t fs.saImost impossible for All
American woman graded in freedom.
to appreciate fully the immense cour-
age and sacrifice required in taking
this stem. Not alone has she 10 face
the loneliness and hon1esickness when
comes with the breaking of home anu
country ties but she must endure
the stigma which, in the eyes of her
countrynen. always must rest upon
the Hindu woman who breaks her
bonds to follow in the footsteps Of her
American sister. Her first school
was in wadala: from there she vas
sent. at the age of nine, to the Amer
jean Warathi tWah-lah-te) Mission
Girla' School at Ahmeduagas fAh-
med-he-gas1 and shortly after this
her father-a doctor who STUDIED I'M
der Or. Ballantvne. an English STR
e-eoriZremoved to Ahmeduagas that
he might give his children better ed
ucatiocal advantages. She also took
one gear at a boys school She then
attended the Bible Training school.
at khmeduagas and taught six
months at government school AT
Poonn. (Noonahe From both the girls
schools and the Bible training school,
she graduated at the head OF her class.
This young Hindu woman has
great future before her in the re-
general ion. of her country. she be-
lieVes3 With absolute conviction that
India will some day be free, but II
is IL Christian America that SIZE
stretches her hend Cor help. She
talks entertainingly Of them, 70 us, OF
the strange customs and habits OF
her country. and We hope when she
has gained a more complete mastery
Of olu language. that she will return
to Gardiner and give our cities an
opportunity 10 learn of India, her
present and future.