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 fourteen or fifteen is addressed thus:—"Sister!" is the common taunt "how do you manage to digest what you eat and drink when you have got a grown-up girl to marry"?

Now, where all this solicitude of the Hindus is gone as soon as a girl becomes a widow f Why should the Hindus become so callous and cruel to women when they lose their husbands for no fault of theirs? Even raw girls whose marriages have not yet been consummated are debarred from remarriage. I can not resist the temptation of making the following quotation from the late Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's book on Marriage of Hindu Vidyasagar's Widows:—"Countrymen! how long remarks will you suffer yourselves to be led away by illusions. Open your eyes for once and see that India, once the land of virtue, is being overflooded with the stream of adultery and foeticide. The degradation to which you have sunk is sadly low. Dip into the spirit of your