Show r AS OTHERS SEE US r An Aa educated and observing Hindu c Bao Rao Telang writes a al af f bright article on the Hi Hindu Wife in inthe l the forum Jorum for the current month in which he be indulges indulge in io certain com com- comparisons r that will hardly be deemed altogether palatable to Western taste We can do no better than quote a fe few sentences An Ao Impression seems to prevail in We Western tern countries that there IS r no lov love Jove between bet the Hindu wife and husband The truth Cruth is 18 the Hindu families are anthe the h happiest in the world The Hindu woman having been tied to the Jot lot ot of ottile oth tile the man early think thinks only of him g 8 happiness is her happiness s She loves her ber husband devotedly In the tn J Western W tern nations nation I observe that tb the theman i man n works from morning to late in the tb i night i night to earn earu money He has baa no rest f o enjoys enjoy the benefits benefit of ot hie bilt t m money His Hie wife wite While he heis h hla la is struggling to get the al- al ali al f collar his bid wife wite ie is enjoying the th i r- r rT F T usury ry and end leisure it buy buys buy If It she ebe b ot get the newest fashion of orna- orna ornaMents Ments enta or clothing g she he Is i often otten u un- un unhappy 0 happy and consequently if it the bus hus- cannot buy them he too is i made madeu J u happy Moreover the women In America seem leem to have bare greater gredLer liberty than the men man The young girl is 18 brought up op by her ber mother to think bahe that she is equal to man and in some respects superior to him She reads love Jove novels novela spends much time at her be toilet she be wears wean in her ber bonnet flowers feathers dead birds birda seaweeds moss mou raa thorns big need needles lee an and in her dress dr- pine books ties tiel iron and brass brals IIan bars cUps clips stitches and w what bat not and aad on her ber bosom I have hari seen eon her ber wear a living Jiving lizard liz liz- lizard ard aN fastened with a thin chain Her He waist is II laced tight by a corset which makers her ber pant for breath Thus Thu eg she abe be sallies forth to make con oon- q f of ot young mens men's men ene hearts heart she seems to me re pardon me e I write writ with with- oa out it t offense ollen to lack Jack the mild mileS and aad den deli del Gately cately sweet look that eveR even T R she thet taj co com com- commonest monest Hindu woman wol an has bal Her lookis look Jook is II bold and defying to the man This Thil is II all aU owing to the innate feeling that she be is 18 i eq equal oal to the man In her ber pride she Ibe be has bai forgotten womans woman's woman part parL This Thi ii is all aU very severe eTere ai as everybody will wUI admit and our oar censor will be set down at once as aJ an extremist of the most pronounced sort Yet there Is enough foundation for finding his finding faultfinding to save lave it from the stigma of falsehood falsehood- falsehood too much truth indeed to warrant extended criticism of the critic While no West West- Western Western ern ern woman would want to change places with her Hindu Hind u sister later there is much In so called civilization that deserves ridicule and rebuke Finally whatever Mr Telang's objections may amount to if it estimated at their true weight they cannot be without the value which is ia said to exceed the false flattery of a would would-be friend |