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Show Flora Anne Steel. Mrs. Flora An.o Stoel, whoso Btories of India aro a closo second in interest to Rudyard Kipling's, is the wife of a rs tired Indian civiliau, and raoro than 20 years of hor married life wore spent in India. She has acquired five of the native na-tive Indian dialects and can thus pursue pur-sue studies iu folklore which over learned philologists who know only the written languages could not accomplish. Sho is described as "a bright, cheerful, ruddy complexiont-'l little womau, some what over 50 years of -'ge, with a fine head of gray hair and a merry twinkle in her eyes. " Mrs. Steel is at present in tho Punjab, armed with a camera for she pictures which aro to Da rund6 into magic lantern slides to illustrate the ludian lectures sho intends to deliver or her return home next year. |
