INDIAN WOMANHOOD

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4385, 13 March 1909, Page 1

INDIAN WOMANHOOD

After all this ill-treatment Jare your morbid minds satisfied? Where is the mandate that ' Heaven has given you (the Hindoo men) to torture us in these manifold ways ? Are you / ' not ashamed to go and cry-that hJ the Government is ill-treating v > you—pretending that you are civilized and possess humanity, _ j compassion, and fellow-feeling, and therefore want political independence ? Is it possible that those who cannot treat their .. - J women with justice will administer the country? Will . such administration ever be conducive to the happiness, of the governed ? Ye ifiock heroes, who have miserably failed to prevent the slavery in which . ? ye have kept ycur mother?, / wives, sisters, daughters! Be- -kJ cause we form the weak sex our cries ai'e cries in the wilderness. You enjoy the coinforls of life H and expose us to its miseries. ‘| Is this justice ?—From a Mysore vernacular journal, by a lady student. (Hindoo and u : widowed). __ _ THE VIRGIN MARY TO THE CHILD JESUS T am not proud, meek angels, ye invest New meeknesses to hear such utterance rest On mortal lips, “ I am not proud ” not proud ! - Albeit in my flesh God sent His Son, Albeit over Him my head is bowed, V.; As others bow before Him, still heart Bows lower than their knees. 0 centuries That roll, in vision, your futurities My future grave athwart, Whose murmurs seem to reach me while I keep Watch o’er this sleep, Styof me as the Heavenly said, “ Thou art The blessedest of women ! blessedest, Not holiest, not noblest—no high name, Whose height misplaced may pierce me like a shame, When i sit meek in Heaven. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning.