Miss. Grace Yang, national student secretary of the Y. W.
A., returned recently from a trip to India where she went: to attend the. first All-India Obrittian Women Students Conference, held in' December. at. Bishop Col-Togo, Calcutta. Miss Yang enjoyed the distinction of being the only Chinese woman at that conference, and of having travelled the longest distance to get there.
Spenking before a group of W.C.
A.,, secretaries in Shang-fang gave her impress-font of the people, their customs and dress as foreigners write home from China after they arrive. Miss Yang saw with the added comprehension that comes with experience of a western education. She is a graduate of Int. Holyoke College, and her comments are a blend of both "My firat impression as we loft Colombo and. travelled through southers India, wae the bright colours. The country seemed full of colow not in the landscape for that wae just sand and trees without much foliage but in the vivid elvess of the people. The material of their dresses was very coarse, however—cotton instead of silk. As I saw more of the people, I noticed how very sad they. al! wore. Even the children do riot laugh' and play in a na: tural way. The men work very hard; in eouthem India the women as well_as the men work hard. Then I noticed how very straight the working people were, and T realized it is because, they carry everything on their heads of swinging from a bamboo, pole or on a wheelbarrow, as coolies do in China, "My first Indian meal was very simple, with fow dishes. You are taken out into the courtyard fend a servant pours cold water over your right hand and you are ready to eat. There is little furniture in their houses, and they sit and sleep on the floor. When you eat, you sition the floor in front of a plantain lent, which is your plate. A' pot of ice is brought in and two spoon-tals are served: to everyone, then another dish with curry la passed and: no matter what it is, it all tastes the same because' of the! curry. Last of all, you put a vegetable of some Kind.on your rice, and start to" eat.
"The rice is cooked differently from the. Chinese way—the water is poured off, and it is not sticky. Bvorything is very greasy. bad always thought if was easy to eat ith your" fingers, but now
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