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Show Swiss Women Asked to Aid Widows of India oenkva; Aug. it (By A. P.) There are Zt.Oov.COO Hindu widows In India who, owing to their religion, reli-gion, can never remarry. Alias 1 sobs so-bs 1 Frosham of the Church of Kn-gland Kn-gland Missionary society tokl her bearers at a lecture In Geneva. Or this total. 114.000 widows sre under the age of t, and both old and young wldowa, eepecially the latter, lat-ter, are aa a rule very badly treated by their relatives, who believe that In former llvs their misdeeds must have been greet to be thus punished In this life. When 1)1, these unfor-' unfor-' titnate widows sre notullowed to be i attended by a male doctor. Miss ; Krosham therefore appealed to tne Swiss women's committee to send volunteer women doctors to India to look after this sorely tried class of native women. ROMAN ALTAR FOUND. LONDON, Aug. II (By A.P Used for years as a jumping bjock In children's games, a large white square stone threa feet high, near Kingaton road, has been identified as a Roman si tar. 2000 years old. The antiquarian, Doctor W. H. Kesteven, who made the discovery, pays it Is Ilka all early Roman altar al-tar and - the depression on top shows where .the offerings for the. gods were placed. Carved figures,' . supposed to represent priests, can gull be seen on ona side- v " 'tt1 |