Year: 1873




ting the entire social organization by


their indescreet offciousness.


"Such is the hue and cry raised
against us. Yet we must fight on
y We cannot cease to preach that which
I we believe to be truths, come what
! may. All these menaees and threat
: enings cannot in the least intimidate
us. No doubt we are young, and
e therefore open to the charge of being
, nowand inexperienced No donbt we
, have yet to learn great deal with the
: growth of our years, YET we cannot but
+ most emphatically assert that the
truths that we preachSfe as old and
hoary as the very world itseIf-nay
more.


"We are therefore doing all we can
in our own humble way, to preach the
rights and liberties of woman, the ne
cessity of opening to her all the pos
sible means of knowledge and i'm
provement, and lastly, the justice of
treating her exactly equal to man.
If you wish, I should be very glad to
send up copy of our paper to you,
which you can have translated by
Bhuvan Bazoo, or any of your pupils
in the school.


'.Dear Miss Nelson, [ would beg
you to write, if possible, something
for our paper at your convenience.
While it is one of the chief objects of
your mission to India to raise up the
position of our women to the best of
your power, one of the effective means
I could suggest to You, is to spread
your views and opinions through
some Indian journal, devoted to the
cause. If you would, our paper is
freely open to you, except that you
do not touch on any particular reig-
ion We shall be only too glad to
translate what you may write in your
own language. May I ask you if
there are many papers in your coun-
try solely devoted to wornan's cause,
and with which we can exchange our
own? We are not satisfied with
merely English ones, as we are in
formed that your country holds even
far higher place in doing justice to
woman than England. We are much
more anxious on that account to read
American journals than English ones
So, kindly let me know all this in
formation as soon as it would permit |
I have perhaps been too long to-day,
and SO I shall take leave of you for
the present


Hoping this will find you perfectly
right, I remain affectionately yours,


''NIsI KAN-LA- A-cHATrARYEN,


'No. 33 neutrality-suspicious.,


Calcutta"


To-day is the birthday of one of
our assistant pupils, and she invited
us all to dine with the School. We
had very nice dinner, and a very
long table. I wish I could give you
some idea of the native food, and the
variety Of ways of preparing RICE, and
the variety of sweetmeats and fruits.
We were to have some fireworks to-
night, but as the first one went of, a
spark fell into the basket and blew up
all at once, SO the children had to go
to bed. Sophia, whose birthday has
been celebrated, is 20, and has been
in the School II years. She teaches
now, with small salary. He rmother
is one of the Matrons, so our enter
tainment to-day was at her own ex-
pense.


I have been the victim of success
sion of losses. I think I mentioned
losing my purse out of my saddle
pocket. Not long after, I had some
rupees stolen from my trunk, and
this week had beautiful breast-pin
of Delhi gold stolen. 1 am very sor-
ry to lose it, but I have learned some
new features of the native character
and customs. Mr.. Woodside sent
word to the police that the theft had
been committed. Two native police
men came, took the names of all the
servants, searched their houses, but
found nothing. One of the police
men then put vessel in o certain
place and told each of them to throw
in handful of earth, and if any of
them had taken the pin they could
throw it in with the earth, and no one
would know who was the guilty one
If he found the article among the
loose earth, well-if not, they were all
to be taken to Court The pin has
not been found, and one or two Of the
poor servants were taken to jail, yet
I have no idea they are guilty, neither
have as to who is. 1 had never
missed the slightest thing before, and
had grown careless about locking my
trunk.


For the benefit of the readers of
"Woman's Work for Woman" '1 rise
to explain, that the picture in the
August or September No. of 'tDehra !
Girls" is perfect 6s1rlesque. We
have no such hideous-looking crea-
lures here as that represents. I think
they have got hold of japanese
School, or thought any picture would
90. We have some beautiful girls, al
though they are dark-some of them
are olive color. They all have most
beautiful eyes and hair, and such
small hands and feet Our girls
have very refined tastes also. They
notice every thing we wear, and ex-
press their opinion of style very free
ly. am sorry that picture is eircu-
lated at home. JAN.