Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-02-26
INTERESTING TALKS
BY LADY MEMBERS

In spite OF the inelement weather,
goodly number of the members of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
were found in their places in the lee
ture room OF the First Methodist
Church ON Monday evening last All
joined heartily in singing the opening
hymn THE Morning Light is Break
ing" After hearing from several OF
the department secretaries a second
hymn, How Firm a Foundation" was
sung
Mrs Helen SheAton took charge OF
the devotional exercises. using as
basis OF her very appropriate remarks
the nineteenth Psalm. Mrs Shenton
also read a letter from Miss Vera
Thompson, a missionary who has beer
compelled 10 lay aside her work for .
while thanking the society for gifts
which some OF the members had sent
her
Mrs Thomas Linthieum, the cor
responding secretary, told of a meet
ing TO be held IN Baltimore on March
End, the purpose of which is TO ar
range for an extensive membership
campaign. The aim of the organiza-
ton for this year is to raise the al
ready large membership to one mil
lion. The ladies on the hospitality
committee have been doing good work
Through their efforts several new
members have come into the church
The ways and means committee, of
which Mrs Edward Beayfn is chair
man, is arranging for a play to be
given shortly Mrs. l. T Wilson, Mrs.
Grafton d. Ridout, Mrs Mary y. Ire
land, and Mrs. w. f. Shenton, were
elected delegates to the Branch Quar-
terly meeting to be held in Baltimore
carly in March.
At the conclusion Of the business
meeting. Mrs. p E. Hemke, literary
leader for the evening, took charge.
The topics for discussion were India"
and China" Mrs. Hemke said that in
many respects conditions in India are
the same today as in the days of
Moses. For thirty centuries the peo
pie have gone TO bed hungry. it never
having occurred TO them that they had
any claim to be filled. She next dis
cussed the status of women. All
Hindu sects agree upon two points,
the sanctity of the cow and the de-
pravity of woman This attitude or
belief causes untold suffering to the
women. mentally and physically They
are illiterate. only one in a hundred
are able to read and write. They are
secluded in Zenanas, which are usu-
ally situated in the most unwholesome
part of the house. Here they have al
their condition, hence hystera in all
its forms; and if they are sick the.
treatment is anything but humane
The caste system makes the zenana
hospital imperative There are now
in India $50 mission hospitals. less
than 400 dispensaries 159 foreign wo-
man phyicians. But what are these
among so many millions? There is
great need of trained native women
nurses and Doctors
esting story of a lady doctor. who at
the close of very busy day twelve
miles from her station, tended through
the night an outcast man with cholera
The man died and his friends did not
even thank the missionary for her
care. Sad and discouraged and feel
ing that she closed instead of opening
door of usefulness, she went back to
her station. But in six months time
she was wonderfully rewarded for her
labors for the mans whole family
knelt at the feet of her brother plead
ing TO be taught the way of Christ
Shortly after this a thousand people
in that village were baptised Mrs
Anna Brewer sang very effective and
beautiful song, Sometime. Some
where"
Mrs. Faust gave some interesting
comparisons and parallels between
India and China The awful condi-
tons existing in China were also
shown by comparison with the United
States. by a process of elimination:
getting rid of most good institutions
and substituting all that is unsanitary
and disease producing and placing
here four times as many people. The
condition of women in China is similar
TO that of India as far as education,
oppression and all forms of suffering
are concerned This was very impress
sively brought out by Mrs L. r Will
son The meeting closed with the mis-
sionary benediction