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Show Hindoo Chili-Wives. J Captain Arthur Wood tolls, in his j account of a journey in Bengal, how j he encountered in a Hindoo peasant ( family, a child with close cropped hair and dressed in a neglected style that contrasted with the neatness of her brothers and sisters. The child was not over seven years of ago, but sho seemed to have lost all the gaiety of - girlhood, and shrank liko a leper from the view of her visitor. The rest of the family did not seem to know she existed. Captain Wood inquired about her, and learned that she was a widow. Her husband, three years her senior, of whom sho had no personal per-sonal knowledge, had died a few months before, and the young girl full of life and spirits, found her condition ' suddenly changed, without knowing why. She was treated as one who had no right to live, and who was reluctantly permitted to live. And this must be her existence as long as lifo is vouchsafed her. |