FOR THE WOMEN IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1930, Page 3

FOR THE WOMEN IN INDIA

‘‘The iiijjiieSt product' of''Sochi I '-W----olulioii’.' says''an American (><iur-sitibn-ists, ‘is’ the growth of the civilised, homo, the home that only a wise, cultivated and high-minded' woman'' can make.. To create such a woman, thor :should he the first function of edit cafion. The e'xinrimotion fetish and tin? hustle which it necessarily invoices is bad both- for genuine .culture nhysioal well-being, and the resulting stra'n lias ..been admitted, to be too •much even in. the case'.of" hoys. ,Ts it not. therefore, highly undesirable t-> subject t he_.futnrc .motherhood of th - ‘country to .its wasting influence. J Would it not he a great, pity, if Town nt of imagination on the part of the authoi ities. our girls shook! h - allowed to emaciate themselves in the vain and often illusory quest of a university certificate? In. Western countries where co-education has been tried it has been found that young men arc more civilised. The women, on th l ' other hand, do their work in a more -atiiral way and with greater apnli'-a-thin .than when isolated from men quid '•there is less' silliness and f'llv,- s-nr'lv because a man is not a novelty.”—-Her lupdiness the Alalia rani of Gwalior, at •! recent congress. ■