Show WOMAN AND Old Age in India Invariably Blends the Two Into 1 y i have seen women under a burning midday sun reaping in the says iter on have seen them at in the of I have seen them loading engines with coal at railway I have seen them in long processions on the white roads of the plains carrying great burdens on their heads like a string of And I have seen also in the eyes of every old woman whom I have every one of such adversity and angry bitterness as seemed to curse the very air of I have not seen one happy old woman in the whole follow through the village like a dog at the husband's Maternity is no excuse for the task in the field and the duties of the They are servants without wages and without liberty to select another Before them is perpetual and if they are so abandoned by the gods as to reach old age their certain destiny is friendliness and black I never knew all the meaning of the word woe until I looked into the face of an old woman under an Asian women folk of the upper classes in speaking are the prisoners of their husbands than the women of the helot They do not labor except in cooking and serving the meals of their but they are cut off from the world as completely as a they do not even in many the male relations of their They are little more than caged animals taught to do a few household Chicago |