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Show Flora Anne Steel. Mrs. Flora Anne Steel, whose storie9 of India are a close second in interest to Rudyard Kipling's, is the wife of a retired re-tired Indian civilian, and more than 20 years of her married life were spent in India. She has acquired five of the native na-tive Indian dialects and can thus pursue pur-sue Btndies in folklore -which even learned philologists who know only the' written langnage could not accomplish. She Is described as "a bright, cheerful, ruddy complexioned little woman, some' what over 50 years of age, with a fine head of gray hair and a merry twinkle In her eyes. " Mrs. Steel is at present in the Punjab, armed with a camera for the pictures which are to be made into magio lantern slides to illustrate the Indian lectures she intends to deliver on her return home next year. |
