Lord Curzon has just lately based no less than 12 tigers. A' speaker at the Society of Arts the other day went so far as to ask for a law for the protection of tigers, as he said they were now becoming almost extinct in some parts, and urged that they were really the agriculturists' best friends, for they destroyed tinually great numbers of deer who did so much damage to the crops and trees.
A GREAT PRonLest which is facing us now is that our modern education is tending very much to destroy the religion of the Mahomedans and Hindus, while the feeling of caste prevents them from adopting our creed. In fact, tone cannot blame them when one sees how often it is brought before their eyes from the white man's conduct in the East how very far removed is his life from the creed he professes. Itis not mere missionaries that we need so much as men who will realise what is the White Man's Burden, and feel that they have come out not only to make money and uve a good time generally, but that it should be a matter of Imperial terest to each individual to try and bring about a feeling of sympathy between themselves and the people to whom they represent the British Government. Lord Carzon has shown very great interest in the question of education, and he urges strongly that the young students should go in more for sport. H.E. urged the Mahomedans, who re inclined to be more lethargic, to concentrate their energics on education so that hoy should not be left behind.
THE EVOLUTION oF woman, about which so much has been written and said lately, light ofeivilisation is gradually dawning, even in some of the darkest corners of the Zenana. The women of India have been slumbering soong, whilst women of other countries hare taking a keen and lively interest in life. To these gentle, timid women, the walls of their home encircled their world, and the horizon of their mental vision was not beyond the immediate concerns of their own narrow secluded life, but this new cen tury shows a marked difference, Women are waking up to the fact that they have responsibilities in life, and their interests are generally widening. Among the Pac-sees itis now becoming quite customary for their daughters to take up som: line of work, and even among the Mahomedans, who are so very seclusive they are educat-the girls and in some instances even sending them to England or having Knglish governesses for them. The National Society of India, which is entirely secular, does much in bringing the native ladies in touch with European ladies at meetings which they hold at intervals. The women of India have also been showing interest in subscribing for the Victoria Memorials which are being got up in all three Presidencies. In some instances these memorials in the sh are hospitals.
POPULARITY OF LORD AMETHILL, The new Governor of Madras, Lort Ampthill, and Lady Ampthill are becoming very popular, Before coming to India, T am told, he mentioned to Her Majesty that his idea was nut to go only by the fornvition he gained from his Cxbinet, which has been practically speaking the custom for 0 long, but to make the acquaintance f each of his Collectors of nally, by inviting them to stay with him' and seeing much of them personally, so as to form a better opinion of their respective merits and churacteristies and also as to gain his information at first hand. So far, as.rule the Governors have stood very much aloof, and beyond few oficial receptions there was 1 ttle personal intercourse he! ween the Governor and his Collectors and District Oficers,
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