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...them. Our head mistress told me that one day some children tired of the stifling air in the covered cart lifted the curtain to peep out and a a father chancing to pass spoke to them. The event nearly broke up the school! Of course there can be no public usefulness for women, no organization, no real agitation until such seclusion is moderated. That the curtain is slowly lifting is evident however. In Bombay and Calcutta there are purdah parties where Hindu and Mohammedan ladies meet with Europeans to enjoy music or lectures. They have a club house, sustained by all three classes and where I saw a game of tennis played by two...