Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1911 — WOMAN AMD WOE. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN AMD WOE.

Old Age In India Invariably Blende the Two Into Ons. *1 have eeeo women under a burnbag midday «iin reaping la the fields," says a writer on India; T have seen them at roadmaking la the streets of etnas; I have seen them loading engines with coal at railway stations; I bars seen them In tong procession on the white roads of the plains carrying great burdens on their heads like a string of camels. And I have seen also in the eyes of every old woman whom I have encountered, every one of them, each misery, adversity and angry bitterness as seemed to curse the very air of heaven. I have not seen one happy old woman In the whole country. "Women follow through the village like a dog at the husband's heel. Maternity Is no excuse for the task In the Arid and the duties of the houae. They are servants without wages and without liberty to select another master. Before them is perpetual servitude, and if they are so abandoned by the gods as to reach old age their certain destiny is misery, dejection, friendliness and black despair. 1 never knew all tbe meaning of the word woe until I looked into the face of an old woman under an Aslan sky. "The women folk of the upper classes In India, speaking generally, are more tbe prisoners of tbeir husbands than the women of the helot castes. They do not labor except in cooking and serving tbe meals of their husbands, bnt they are ent off from the world as completely as a nun; they do not even know, in many cases, the male relations of their husbands. They are little more than caged animals taught to do n few household tricks.”—Chicago News.