Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-08
CRIMINAL INDIANS
Institution That Aims to Save
Girls From faint.
HOW TO DRESS, FIRST LESSON

Training Based on the PrinoipIs
"Never Let Others Do For You That
Which You Can Do For Yourself"
Boys Being Taught Also.
There is an interesting and almost
unique home at Phulpur, in the ALA
habad district of India, every one of
whose inmates can lay claim to the
unsavory distinction of being a daugh.
ter Of the people of the criminal tribes
of India, whose existence is often one
long round Of theft alternating with
periods of imprisonment.
There are any number of these GRIM
inal tribes in India whose traditions
and early history incline them natural
| ly to crime from youth upward. The
Bawarias, split up into eight branches,
with numerous qualifications, for in
stance. were notorious at one time for
perpetrating the most daring dacoities,
which they conducted on a highly or
ganized system, though for the last
half century and more they have been
compelled to adopt less violent meth
DDS Of crime
Then there are the Sansis, whose ex.
ertions are usually, though not always,
confined to petty pilfering, fraud and
the like: the HARMS, genuine profess
sional criminals, who hand on their
methods from generation to genera
ton and specialize in burglary; the
Pakhiwaras, the Minas and several
others.
The home, Which is but eighteen
months old, says the London Standard,
exists for the purpose of training girls
in such work as will enable them to
earn a decent livelihood, and it is
hoped that decent surroundings and
proper training and education will yet
turn them into self respecting mem
bers of the community.
Their first lesson on entering the
home is on the art of putting on
clothes, a process which usually gives
the greatest satisfaction. Then comes
the training, conducted on the princi.
pie, Never let others do for you that
which you can do for yourself" So
it happens that the elder girls clean
the house, grind the corn, do their Own
washing and cooking and do some of
their own marketing, SO that from the
first they begin to learn to depend upon
themselves. Silk reeling is one of the
occupations taught, fine sewing anoth-
er, and in both cases the girls are paid
for their work. In regard to their
school education a curious fact is no.
ticed-those who learn English are said
to be both more useful and reliable
than those who do not, and when plac-
ed in positions in which they find them
selves in charge of their fellows car
carry out their work perfectly we'll,
while the others fail hopelessly. The
Urdu they learn cannot supply them
with much attractive literature, but
"Alice In Wonderland" fairy tales, and
similar volumes are an enormous de-
light to the enlightened ones who know
English.
If, Of course, these girls were being
| Crdlueu lOI d IuLuT6 u UO spent WILL
husbands taken from their respective
tribes, it would be pretty safe to pro-
phesy that the effort would be wasted.
There are, however, settlements for
boys run on similar lines, and, as most
of the good would be undone if the
boys took to themselves wives from
among the unframed, uneducated and
generally dirty girls of their tribe still
at large, it is hoped to arrange for mar
riages between the inmates of the two
institutions.
This work of caring for some Of the
criminal tribes of India-men, women
and children-is carried on by the SAL
walton Army and was undertaken
some five years ago at the request of
Sir John Hewett, then lieutenant gov
ernor of the United Provinces. AL
ready good progress has been made.