Woman's enterprise., 1922-03-10

f' '' 'o"Ho strange lC you. In
system is like this: Suppose a certai
, father has five sons. All five son
t live with the father even when the
are married, and have fairly BIZ
family each one of them. Now eve
: if there be some daughters, they d
not count for our purpose here becaus
they get married and go away t.
J their husbands houses, unless it b
in special circumstances which I vii
tell you, time permitting and YOU
patience lasting (about the daughta
being kept at home when either he
true husband is alone or the fathe
of the bride has no male children}
Now the family consists of the father
his sons and grand children, at tn,
least. This way the families can O.,
on increasing and the mothers can mo-
be limited. The families generally d:
not break up SO long as the mother
the head of the family, is alive. A.
long as she is in existence, she rule!
the house very agreeably to almost al
and the house gets along all right
But the moment she is gone, the
young girls begin to show themselves
a bit and thus the house breaks up.
Thus we see, that as soon as cir
worries and goes to her husbands
house, she's not much of worker ir
that house. Perhaps some of the
prospective wives among US do not
think very favorably about this affair
| can see that, but our system in In.
dia is not to burden the young lady
with grave responsibilities, but to al
low her some time Of probation to
learn how to get on in the new cir
cumstances under which she is placed.
In the Western World the lady gets
the 'uling Immediately after the mar
riage, but our ladies in India assume
their Supreme powers only when they
become mothers and have their turn
to give lessons to their daughters-
in-law. They are once ruled when, in
my opinion, they are benefited from
that rate and they rule when they
have acquired the experience in the
world to guide them when they rule.
Coming to the religious side of the
question-as in all countries, l think,
women of India are also extremely
religious in temperament in the ma
jority Of cases. They are far more
loyal and God-fearing than their hus-
bands, as far as my experience goes.
In the Hindu households each per-
son above s years of age is expected
to worship God every morning. If
the house mother is rather careless,
we know for certain how far that
worship takes place. In fact, l am
sorry to say that certain ladies Of
India who are supposed to be very
civilized, according to the meaning
that is given the word civilization
now, are far from that ideal of moth
erhood. According to the Eastern or
Hindu civilization, every lady is ex-
pected to battle in the morning and
supply the necessities for worship,
which is rather elaborate, and prepare
food, etc., with fresh washed clothes
on and remain in those clothes until
all the people have finished their
morning meal. So the ladies are
specially clean by habit which has
been sticking on to them for hundreds
of years.
Let US now think of the modern wo-
men after the advent of English and
other foreign influences. Now, all
the middle and high class girls go to
girl schools up to the age of about
IL to Is or until they come of age
which our people do not think it ad-
visible for the girl to go out alone.
After that, if her parnets can afford,
she gets private tuition both in liter
ary subjects, music and such other
fine arts. These girls, when they
grow up and marry men suited to
their kind Of culture, become the So
ciety ladies of the modern world. They
organize clubs with all kinds of
games, libraries, reading rooms, etc.
They take part in tournaments, like
tennis tournaments, etc. OF course,
they have not yet come to the shape
If playing football or any other
strenuous games like that. Some of
The girls recently took it into their
heads to ride bicycles, which of course,
was astounding to the old ladies of
India who could never think of seeing
! girl dashing out so swiftly. So now