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 late Coronation festivities made special demands upon the Viceregal Court. To be the Vicereine of India is at once the most regal, brilliant, and picturesque position held by any woman under the 369 LADY OF QUALITY past when the wife of India's ruler dare not give shelter to the child-wife pleading to escape from death on her husband's funeral pyre. Suttee has been abolished and great advances made in the position of our sisters i Crown, but it is one which is unusually fraught vvith danger and arduous duties. The position, however, offers golden oppor- tunities for helping forward the movements for the education and uplifting of the women and girls of India. Happily, the days are D 27 in India. The manner in which successive Vicereines have striven to further reforms is illustrated by the Countess of Dufierin Fund, the Victoria Memorial Scholarship Fund, founded by the late Lady Curzon for the training of native midwives, and the