Connecticut western news., 1922-08-03
FORMER TEACHER
 WRITES FROM INDIA
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the doors were hung with bamboo curtains, lest youth passing along the veranda outside should look in and get q glimpse of the Mrharlme- dan damsel. This same girl plans to go to England this year to study at Oxford Imagine the difficult sd- justments that lie ahead of her! While she is abroad, the old mother intends to make her pilgrimage to the tomb of the Prophet at Mecca.
 Most of the seniors who are Chris tians will teacn in mission schools next year and some of them are en- tering upon their work with high ideals of service. One member of the class came to us from Singapore and has now gone back to teach in the Methodist school which prepared her for college.
 Though much of my time goes to teaching, I nave various outside in terests. Each Sunday several of the students go with me to a poorer section of the city where we have Sunday School for the women and children. Many of them are ncn- Christians and those who are Chlis- tians have had litslc religious teach ing. The children for the most rGrt are scantily clai, dirty, ard un. kempt, but many of them have keen, alert faces and they flock around us eagerly as soon as we arrive At the request of the woInen 70 g) to the same place on a week day to give reading lessons in iindustani. h. cidentally we introduce a little in- struction in health aud hygiene. Every year at Christmas time we invite to the college the children of all the Sunday Schools carr led on by teachers and student i1 various poor sections of the city. Sometimes as many as five hundred come and they have a gay afternoon on the college lawn, playing games, singing, and feasting on sweets and fruits.
 Last December, leaving the differ ent college activities for a time, l took a trip across India. At ked- gaon 1 saw Pandita Ramabai's school and the industrial work carried on in her settlement of cne thousand Indian women and girls. l counted it an honour to meet 'he great iady herself. A convert to Christianity from the highest caste of Hindu ism, she was woman of marked in- tellectual ability combined with the spiritual vision which inspired ne" to devote her life to the uplifting of her sisters, particularly those who, like herself, had had the misfortune to become widows, a conditic1 so despised in this land.
 From Kedgaon went to :aautIfdl | Bombay and then north 10 Baroda, the capital of one of India's native states. The ruler has two splendid palaces, European however rather than Indian in architecture and fur 1 nishing. His priceless crown jewels -rubies, emeralds, pearls, and dia- monds are wonderful sight. was taken to the enclosura where the huge elephants are kept and saw their elaborate trappings of gold and silver. The seats used by riders look rather like sleighs ~ith ut run ners Shortly after tke Prince of Wales arrived in this country he rG- ceived word from Holne that he was not to appear on an elephant. Evi- dently his people thought that that lofty and conspicuous position would make him too easy target.
 Delhi with its great forts and marble palaces is a marvellous reve lation of India's past glory. At Agra I saw the matchless Tai Manal, all the more impressive because in this land where woman is looked upon as an inferior that perfect gem of architecture was wrought under the direction of a Mohantmedan ruler