Show women of liuha in the family writes capt richard ichard ll barnao demple ei in n a lecont paper llie ile strictest domestic m ti ni emy economy e is t the ra rule a of life and the household work is done by the women woman of tho the household not mot QS as with us b oy Y I 1 paid aid servants servants there ar are a of course in in all indian families but bat the ley yaro aro as arule a rule on a totally t a dif f ferent footing from that a of t t tha h a luro ar 0 domestic being for the tha most par part independent person with a cli ent ente eletor lefor who rathey perform certain customary cas tomary ser services vicen hr a customary wage the distribution of the daily work down to the me most 8 t m mental e nt a I 1 kind lies with the mater fa milias who may be best described as the oldest mar ried ned woman in in the family proper for widows can have no authority the cooking coo liing as the work of honor she sha keeps to herself but the house bous eclea cleaning n the washing the care of the ch chil i I 1 dron dren the drawing of water the making of the beds and so ao on are done by the less dignified members of the household as she directs and what ever is most moist mental most disagree able and the bAr bardelt dest worn work is thrust upon the brido not only is is our bride thus turned into a drudge often y overworked but from the day she gives up hor her childhood to the day of her death it may be for sixty years she la is secluded and ana sees as as nothing of the world outside the walls of the family inclosure she bhe is ia also by cus torn tom isolated as far as practicable from all the male members of that little inner world to which she is is confined F diee roe intercourse even with her own husband is is not permitted her while yet her youthful capabilities for joy oy oneness exist lvery every person belonging to the european Kui races well knows how bow much common meals tend to social sympathy how powerful a factor they are in promoting pleasurable family existence exia tenca and in in educating the young to good manners there is is nothing of this sort in in indian upper class society there the men an and epser women line dine strictly apart the women greatly on the leavings of the men ani that too in in mosses of degree very lile like those in in a royal naval ship pater fa milias dines by himself then the other men I 1 IL L groups according to standing waited on by the women under licop rules and lastly the women when the men are done our poor young bride coming last of all obliged often to be content it need hardly be ba said with the roughest of fare aro |