At present we con neither think nor do nor spee thing else but of the Coronation, "ud all our thoughts run on the festivities to be held for the occasion, Everyone is busy prepa social or charitable, honour of the occasion.
The natives are tal interest in all the pre excitement has even penetrated the purdah of the Zenana, and we find the Indi ladies an their attendants discussing merrily and enthusiastically the Corouation of the new British Rajah Sahib. The women of India have sent an address home which is to be read at the Coro sition. Tt is quite a new departure tu see the women of India coming forward as they have been doing lately.
During the fast quarter of a century there has been the most marked progress in the evolution of the women of India Several of them have come forward pub-liely and have taken up their own shire in life's work. The Victoria Memorial Committee meetings have dune much to bring together the women of India of all castes and creeds, and we have seen some of the must retiring and timid ones among them step forward and take the present. interest in promoting the scheme for the Memoial in their own. neighbourhood. again we see the women belli high Zenana walls roused from their usual apathy and Liking a keen interest in the concerns ut the teat outer world on this particularly _auspi occasion. One feels more with natives are apr educating their are begin ni:, to realise that with them lies the tutin ¢ of their children, and that the more the r: dueate their sons the more ins reuire of their wives in
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