The Tragedy of the Zenana The education of young Indians abroad is the subject of an article in the "Fortnightly" by Cornelia Sorabji. "Boys are sent to England, snd when they return to India to the brides acquired in infancy, or marked down for them by arrangement in the homes. of exthodox, they find themselves matched. They no longer wan: ily the successful mother of son in their wives: they want companions. Yet che only condition often, upon which the mother-grandmothers have allowed the boys to be sent to England, is that they shall marry Hindu girls before they leave home, or betroth themselves as boy and girl, and that the be brought up in the strictest orthodoxy to atone for the laxity allowed the boy in sonding him over-founded the all-shale industry of Scotland, from which so much health has since been obtained.
"Safety First" and Poetry reas.
"The tragedy of their married life on the boy's return needs no description.
"T know of a case where the old Lord Donne, the Scottish nobleman whose approaching marriage to an American lady is announced, was interested some years ago in the "Safety First" campaign, and remember he wrote the following "Ruthless Rhyme" for the Publicity Committee:—"Oh, mummy, dear, what is that suf hat ao like strawberry "It is, my dear, your roleos pa, run over by a tram,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.