Show I I I j 0 H OH OHI OLD MEN MARRY Y BIES IJ U Ji K i I I lor I b J VV V a It m in It Ill a hy liy camel with trappings of IC rutI rud ridden by b bare bure 10 11 men li 11 I red ru and gold Col old I tui tur nn Inn canin t an elephant 1 nt fol 01 owed JV Cc by Iy 11 12 homed each ILCI of It whIch hAd Imd sold got abo bo t I I ir foru foro cn 11 nd silver Ix i I U moin 1 th lr leck ecks Tho ve v 01 ut IZ u of nf J I I ver and t 1 rapping HN i of oC thi tb lb in 1 leg N if It gold H I I It in lI lIht t jp nn ht h t j g I ind r t I r I bin H k kand L Land and of or ind IL 1 11 i 1 r f men I r I Hi h t wa Ia n 0 nd I with Cit th red redi ind i gold golli LI I n II thu Iho u nIdo at n t thi tb t h l brI bri Ii ami t i I ar II 11 In ti Inace tince ace nce hk ui UI m pillow I th l t ti 11 III 11 1 saw I liin Thi y wi wr v ni r Chill I n The thc rh 2 a R 1 old Ill liny ni I f i r Hd olor an tIll tho n It I I tI 11 brown brownn brownI I n of two tW The Tho ly I y win ir a i r dd hl rai 1811 al ind a suit In ri ind III lI II had Imd hArI Heavy I nv collI CIng 1111 on nfl II i iN iu klew and I H ln Around ho Ih irli no II k JIK n It 1 told sold chain unil PhI h hud CuI I bra ind nel anklets Ai I lonk In U th IJo gr I J anti i 1 I od iI 1 hili Ii 1 hunt ha nih nt it 1 m PI i hut bit I 1 iho hn did III II not flat op n In hd r vv Y I and I nm toll told sh hi hail twin n dru 1 t tn ti i keep her quid Itle durIng the 1 Since I have hI li I di JI In U India I hll hia noon AIt Ct n nI iI I I score of or wl pr and andIn In avery ease caff U the thu havo I 1 Children n ni t URh h th I Plo pro i m ii lavo llo brn mono men of I tho Iho lidded vein 10 Pi n nix Ix and Ight YarM I 1 if C age I sern two Iwo nf r 1 five nv t Phit I hi my fly III rrt firt night of n a bride brill who a II a fl I Iby HILD IVI HY II TUB I You have nil till heard of the mar of nC India Thoy Thu Ihl take piA laef o every evry I ny number million n it year yar They rh tm ro Je chiefly chien amori amon the tI III 1 I form of rt the IIII If t I I II III Uti tan I hn Ifor me Inc the Ih III fK OJ I uron ur of nt tim tho last lIOt reruns ceron rt bv hv the hr k Thoy Th Int India hn ni n 80 w I more moro two tv million wives u 8 i tIr 10 I ind n of 1 5 find tinI tinier Imler It ItI q I hn haN II married of oC from 10 JO to 10 15 Jr 1 and moro who are ar be hr 15 Iii ani 20 O 0 There aro Jq OOOO wives wi In tho country C unit 1181 one cn I fourth of oC them are under tho the average l at nt which our girls gIrI marry I Thero nr nl o of oC child 01 wr whose hns fate Is II h ot worse lion that f the tm married whose r f re living I of or them fur tur furher J ther her on In Ihl letter In India nr n ar Ir arranged ranged bv by the Ih parents Thoy They are aro a 11 matter of bargain anti sale onlo and tho the thoI I rather father of nf Ih boy hoy Rots gati the money mollOY At tt present tIm tho th pritA rIco has hM 1 risen and ono mi of the tha native nativo f In demanding that the tho parents of b I q come down nn On the th dowries they the ak aik for their th lr tons They say on that tho th par parI I lints of the brides cannot Bland the thet t charges and that tho the extortions are a n ato 1 to tho Ihn country Every vary Indian father IB IH I anxious to 10 marry off are hU hIli daughters nod nl according to the jib doo religion he will ho bo hed If it hn ha h hI I dorl not A nan man whose WhOM daughter be nn Ito old maid maki must mut expect to toil tott tt il pend K II million yeArs yearn e r In hell for tor that It He lie will be b while ho hll lives and sneered nt nl by b Ma hll fellows Aa As n 8 I result rull of f thin bellof oUr are arc ten be lie In thIr c h They orri nr HH HM 11 n nil ElM thY they th are ara ar to walk salk and 1 aro UP or old 1 1 women nt Itt the th ages ace i our nur become Ind Indeed d there thore thorer urn era r hut but taw fow a In India who nr ore wives wh or nr by lIy the Unit time they the roach reach 11 nf if r H Ie e eOne One nf lt th native states re rr recently centhy n tt law lIw the th K of at gills under S II HOd men of over net M 10 0 la to HW Itt girls 14 It The rue baby art are little mOle n or Cit contracts which cnn not lIot r c brokon When hon the ceremony In IC I over the Ih little bride brill Is t I ha k Rn l she ho stays taye lay than until oh h hs Is III s l 10 or nr 12 II yours years of or ago nuo nil lun chic nhe h must live II P with her hr NO HAt HACi There 1 III littia rm rIllo e in I ii India Th p i want i hi 11 Ill nIl Thy rhY aar aarl r n l for that I t I PU and Rn l the th it mon mo 8 10 they th tb have havo ha Ilir ho Ih hot ter they th thle Ilk It A It woman Indian Marriages and nd How They Are Made Six Million Millton II Wives Temple Brides Who Vho Are Arc Married to the Gods The New Movement for the Education of Women Schools tor for Widows Etc II who tins hall hie no children In Is I n a tIlts tur 10 1 the emil MIle he who does doe nut not hour Jour a 1 Molt 11 Is Ii s considered n a 1 Thu Tho are at nt such uch nn nil ago flO that there als nr of ot t mothers of tiC 12 and 13 m alIl it thin Hurt are some orne little mother of oC 11 II or nr 10 Thre ro arc grand ni rs ant fin I huo hoard heum of great Krent at IS 8 years of or ago nife Tho Thi country count ry Is In ii I tell It growN i ry year and there thoro are oro moro more people hero here now flO than there thare were ore In III 1880 1110 the In 10 cream CraA being bellig U 23 per por cent every ever year Indeed tha tho condition of women In In India India dia Is I such luch that no parent vantu to bring a it daughter Into the tho world lie He knows she ehe will vill bo ho u a slave hivo as us n a 1 wife and Ant nn un outcast as liS n ft widow Kor lor tIle this reason Infanticide WIH M common a it I few rew years and for or tho thu same Illmo reason reMon It ItI It I still here her anti and there ICIa away from till the th I OB of tIle the I oliN I hear henr It l that girl InI uro ro sIren stran strangled gIrd and that 1 Is IH laid on in their mothers breasts no so that when they mick ClIck thoy oat nt no more mare The Tho i lob 1101 ol coning on of if f them thorn with t opium was coin COIll ion III in the Ih past blest 1181 It II l I hI mentioned by hy bYI ol I writers W About hout 20 10 O nr or It 30 yours ago AKO till III government d an nil InfanticIde n a t I enl end nt at that time investigated ron It was as found that In certain he 1 hundreds of or children were wre hr r Hilly currIel ore off by 11 wolves wole and to 10 nay tn En the tho wolves took only lilly gulL In tim th year ear JOO girl babies were stolen by wolves from roiti the tho city of f lint Hint tho tim of some Cobb om parts of India were polluted 1 by bytho tho ho drowning of Infants Infanti and typhoid tos w common thereby One of th thE thIngs that can un happen hAp n to these baby ball brides los la Is to 10 ho bo d to old men Title Is I not Ilot un till uncommon unc common c u IL family r often orten bellig Klad to tomake make a 11 union with a n higher caste oven even If It the husband be he b gray Kray In such uh ull cases CIUCH Is III almost t sure to conic corno early nr anti and III In India to bo lo wIdowed Is Ishell I Ishell hell INDIAS I DIAS nAny WIDOWS Of th III the women on earth there Is none nonA whose who misery Is I so 80 great creat as that of thai tha th widow of India Tho The moment her husband nil ills dies she ohl hO an out ou 1 cat her touch Is pollution and she la Is latho the tho slavo IAO of tho th family She must take tako oft off her hr Rood good do clothIng till MIT anti dress In coarse cottons cottoni liar Her head hOAd must Oust be bo shaved ohne l and sho cannot bathe ns fill tho the thorent rest rent of nf tho the family do She Pho must not sleep deep on a 11 I bed but hut on the th ham floor with nothing but a n piece of matting be between tween her alII the tho bricks She Hh cannot eat nt with the family and am must muM have but butone butone butone one meal mAI n II day In and that of oC tha tho coarsest food tood She Bho must fast Cast every two weeks I with special J fasts now no and Ind then the tho Idea ln being boInK that tho the more she sho Is tor tormented the Iho greater aIH will ill be bo the happi happiness ness noes nl of oC her husband In heaven hOlen She must not allow her shadow to fall Call hl upon the food C Dd or drink of the he r rt pt of the this fam family am amii ily II and all told she sho Is I worse than a R leper Bho Sho will bring bad luck to any anyone one onn on who meets meaLs her and no man joan will continuo continue a Journey If It he passes n a 1 widow on starting Such Huch Ii is her condition nt at homo home and sho eho cannot grot got away She Sho U Is everywhere She cannot hire out as a n servant for no one ono wll lal take tuko her If IC ICho sho ho Is I Rood good looking she sho may bo ho em employed emPlOYed nt at tho temples but as M a 11 rula na her life In Is the most mot horrid slavery This Is lit added to by b the belief be lid of her husbands mother and sisters that In persecuting I her they thE arc helping the this dead deRd They do not dare dAro to 10 pity pit her for Cor tho the super SUPH superstition Is 10 that those tho who hI pity pit a I widow arc likely soon to bo ts widows then them themselves selves suh At the tho same time she Is 10 do pendent upon tho thi rost rest of at tho family fallibly II y Women cannot Inherit property among amonI the thA and all that Is I left by the th husband goes Roea to the children What hat a it fato ate Is this for tor the woman full Cull grown or the old woman who as ns a widow has hn but a few tew years to live Itys It ItIs ItIs Itis Is more moro terrible still for tor tho the babies bable and children who become widows before bt b fore foro they the know kno what means mans Their lives are continuous torture and an they are aro punished until death TWENTYSIX MILLION And how many human beings do you think ore are now undergoing such tor torments torment monte ments I can give lve you the figures figure from Crom the tho census of oC India In as they th y wro gathered fathered la last t year They put pu t tho the number of ot widows at a num number number ber her to almost of our whole 1101 female population India has baa ono one widow for tor her every six women and gIrls and millions million of these theeo widows have havo many years yet to 10 live As to 10 the baby widows widow thero there are of oC five years earH and under and more moro than of oC between een rive five and 10 years cara Thero There are aro young nun girls who runge t no between 10 and ant 15 years ears arll of age undergoing the slavery of oC widowhood a worse slavery than has haa ever been boon Imp Impo Imposed d upon any nation white or black In any other part of or the thA world You havo heard how In the past the widows 01 I 0 11 throw threw themselves on tho the fun Cun funeral eral oral pyres of ot ther husbands and burned themselves to death In 1104 tho the Brit British ish government nl kept count and Ita Its rec record records ord i showed that women had so Me Im Immolated Within w 30 3 tithes miles of Calcutta In the tho apace of oC six elx s1 months In Inthe Inthe the th next 25 5 years moro more than were so burned and Ind It was wae as not until long thereafter that the custom was stopped stopp This burning called uti and It ItIs ItIs Is III questionable whether It was wn not pre pta preferable to continued widowhood which Is III now no known as AO cold suttee The Tho wi widow dow Is II condemned to a n living death She hums u dally daily dall with want nl disgrace and nn shame her predecessor was Ivas happy l lIn In that oho sho died diel but once THE TEMPLE Tf I attended a n wedding the tho other night I at which about DOO OO were lIero pres present ont ent The groom was about six years ears curs old 01 1 He lie was sas a bright little fellow In Ina a red velvet coat cOll tight 1 trousers and n a cap of cloth of or gold JOld The Tho bride lo won was not pre present ent and she sho was Wall wasa Walla a baby or 01 not I do not 1101 know kno Tho The chief feature of oC tho the ceremony Cremon the dancing of oC sonic some girls to th tho music of oC two inti nn an Indian fiddle The Tho girls vent ent nt through tho the snout most surprising contortions contortion They The twisted themselves this way 0 and anti that they the bent l back bak and forth an Ill a though they were India rubber the most of their dancing being I without lifting hitting their feet from the ground Some Bomo of oC their motions motion were boond beyond description Indecent I nm am told laId that the girls are professional dancers that their profession Is about the tho only one open to the young women of nt India They are by b no means mn as al good nood rm su they be but being bad It I n a part of oC their business and the people respect them I Allied Alii to 10 them Is i a cli class claas s of oC girls who are bad bal for religions rell sake sl te They The are the temple brides who are It ala bred to 10 dance ilane nt at the shrines to pander to the tho priests and sing 1111 obscene songs songe to tB the gods They Thc lIre are obtained while yet el children by the temples through pur puN purchase chase or as gifts from the tho parents sad and are ore educated for the purpose Some Som Sometimes SometImes times a man who has recovered from Illness buys bus a girl and amI presents her h thus thull ns as a gift to the gods godt or Ill If It on one has hn a stroke of ot good luck he may make tho the priests such a present If TC the ten tam tenpie pin pie pI brides have daughters they are arA brought ht up is IlI dancing girls being I taught to and sing and Instructed In all alt the arts nr of seduction These The g are licensed by b law but of late years ear their excesses eX have havo become becom curb urh that even enn the natives have begun to 10 object Three ThUe years ego ago a 8 number of oC ls asked the tho Bombay government to suppress stipples the custom In that state and there was wn an nn attempt to do so o 0 U IL failed because the tho masses of tho the looked upon the tho Institution na Its having been lIcon sanctified by religion because tile lie British h make muke It n it 1 to do du nothing that affects the tha faith of oC their subjects Just JU t now n u similar action has ha been 1 1011 taken by b Ion Mysore one on of the states lint It may liay bo be that It II will succeed FOIL KOR WOMEN Tho Tile awakening of or India now going on Oil cannot but better these Ule conditions LOn rho The women could not possibly bo lie worse ore oft than Ihan they the lire uro and any change must be ho nn nil Improvement 1 I nm am told that tile tho native leaders realize this thoU that even eon the 1 are holding conventions In lie tho Interest t of education India lIldia has about and this 1111 means menns that Iha t there are aro half that number of women and girls As Alt It II Is in I now only such girls are In Irs school The Tho 1 8 III fold feel the standard of oC th Ih hi followers of oC tho the prophet must be bo thud that this Oils can Call be lie best done dono by hy educating the girls girl It Is I much tho same with 11 the thc I I nomo of loaders hlo established girls schools Thero Is I n rt nan Imell l a aJain 1 aJam Jain Jam who line lins founded n school for women at Il and nn that city It ha hias other seminaries communes of or a n similar kind kindou You ou havo nil all heard of llama bl hi who lectured In III the tho States not long ago and collected some money mooney thero tharo for the Iho girls school nt at a Sho She Is a 1 Brahmin and belongs to ono coo or Of the tho highest castes cantos of the II She was WRit educated In England and for fora a 1 time she sho was professor of oC In III ono one of ot the colleges there Her Hr school at Poona loona J oona has hilS been running for years and It U la lOing great good All li of oC the pupils IL are child widows |