| Show fills OF MISSIONARY 1 WORK VORK IN THE i HIMAlAYAS MINNEAPOLIS POLIS June JUM 9 lira Itt Mrs Ma May n Gill of ot PR url Ga nal h India r who has has' been teen visiting her brothers brothen In this felt dt fays faYa that the advance made through f snorts there Is III marked Mrs Mis GUI Gill has bal spent pent the last lut twenty one yean Vears e In n India with but one vacation eleven years ago when she Ahe returned to the the United States for a year ear For the last few years th the tho missionary r hal ME AC boon benn bf n doing work ork In the villages of f ff I f 1 th the Himalayas With ith coolies to carry am the tha dandy dand or sedan chair In which she sho Brides r deA and the luggage and with several women accompanying her she makes kes the trips from place to place On Ont the t the mo journey urns she ehe has haft lived JIved In a a. tent and d depended p on on the tho natives to supply p her with food foad Whenever I set out I J took a long along a 1 letter tetter said Mrs rs Gill This letter Jetter which is ad addressed to the native officials In Instructs them to M see to It that if I need milk chickens or eggs I should q r tt be supplied The milk Is to be furnished d tr ee r but out the chickens and eggs are to be bei i paid for tor Her Bor Meal Ticket communications communication I present ent to These p ithe th the pat aarl the native e native official who is pad head of several paWs or valleys The Tho is hi a man of ot considerable influence ence by br rea reason on of his position He Ho also K enjoys great graft enough In many cases to get et eti i 1 wealthy In addition to the le levies Ies which K t the he British government authorizes him to toi i make on the stocks stocks' of the tho natives he tt makes remakes others for himself The people under under un un- der him dont don't dare complain for fear he will make an adverse report against them it and and nd get set them in trouble The ThEl Instructs the natives to supply my wants whenever hene I go on the trip trips I usually it is no trouble to get supplies along the route and coolies to carry the dandy and baggage e. e hut but sometimes when hen tho the natives arc are busy in Inn the fields they refuse e to b be bothered The They send t- t back that they will pay par the tine as assessed them b by the government rather n than ahan n comply Child Marriages ses Child marriages are common and arc are arca area a a great t handicap handles p to the th women The marriage mar mar- means that their education Is practically v cut off when the they are from 9 3 to toU U years cars old Tho parents try to to pick out best hu husbands the they can for their daughters Thc They know that the wife will have ha to do the dru drudgery en of the home and l so O they examine into the condition of or the bridegroom and try to select ono one who ho lives in a part of the country countr where woods and rand springs arc are dose dOM b by FO so the wife wont won't have to travel el for far to get fuel and writer water for the hous household hold 5 High casto caste women are arc kept housed In practically all the time The They arc kept In an inner Inter court of the homes where they the are seen een only onh by members of their families and their women friends As AI the household work among amon the w wealthy is done by bv servants ants the wives ives have nothing to do but sit about on litra tIt lit ra tle stools or tables all an day daJ- long y t Special Car Wives II On the railroads special cars carl are pr pro pro- an divided for the married women The fein feml feml- nine passengers I arc nm carried to the sta- sta V Jon In curtained chairs and anti are placed cd aboard heavily yelled veiled cUe While the train remains in ln the station thc they are aro vcr very demure demure de- de mure inure mure and do not let their faces be peon seen ei i but as al' soon oon as tho the train pulls pulis out ont and andA A reaches a stretch b of nf country where there ls is nobody to sec see the they lift their veils and ClOd eagerly to the windows g to get Jet a J at pa passing sins scenes cenes The fhe wives of ofT T the he lower caste people ha have vc more lib lib- i because thc they have ha to go out and t 1 work Many ji ny of the tho y young m men n prefer nowadays now now- da to marry a girl who ho has had an education p. rather than take a child wife f who can do little more than look pretty p-ett f The They find tho the intelligent girls more ac ac- life companions i a J. J The Tho people ople of nr the hills are arc more con con- than tho those of the plains and do donot not flot take so o read readily to a new religion mon th the tho low o cn isle caste lc nat natives R there thre are area ja a l number who but whenever Oer fa a high caste na native nati th I. I Is i Ion f orn he holds holds' 1 steadfast t to the faith alth This J is s probably due to the fart fact that he ha has to give I up Ills station Slid ad make innumerable lr sacr- sacr flees Before ho hp b becomes com s a crt convert he hp must must have p tho 1 thought ht deeply and realized 1 what chat hat he was ryas sacrificing In the thc It 4 has has has' taken us liS forty fort years rs to secure SOO con arts though In the plains revivals ar are t often conducted wh where here re as man many as at atH lit H time are arc baptized |
