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est, to pray to these gods that the great- 
est good might come to the family. He 
had to go to the river to get water and 
bathe them; he placed food before them 
and then had to take it out to the birds. 
The crow is a sacred bird in India and 
to kill one meant that the one who did 
the killing would be 1000 years farther 
from his eternal destiny. 
“‘There are no chairs in our houses,’ 
he continued. ‘“There are small eis 
instead. ‘There is one bed only and that 
is kept for guests whom we treat with 
greatest courtesies. In the summer we 
sleep on the roofs of our houses, which 
are all flat roofed. I was worried when 
I saw the slanting roofs of houses here, 
and wondered how one could sleep on: 
them. 
““We have the rainy season there and 
we must keep water from one season till 
another. If there is no rain there is a 
famine and a great calamity follows. 
The summers are not hot; the coldest 
winters I have seen were 55 or 60 degrees. 
There is never snow or ice.’’ 
He spoke also of the caste system and 
its bad effect upon the people and country 
as a whole, as regards progress. So set 
are the people in this regard that should 
a person of one caste touch one of another 
while passing on the street the person of 
the higher caste would stand still and 
would not move until one of his own 
caste came along and sprinkled him with 
water,—thus purifying him again. 
He spoke of the two great religions, 
—Buddhism and Brahmanism,—and of 
the pilgrimages to the sacred river Gang- 
es, of mothers throwing their children 
into the sacred river in order to gain 
the sympathies of God. He spoke of 
the good features of these religions as 
well as the bad. 
“Religion governs every phase of the 
life of India today,’’ he said. ‘“The 
worse thing and the vilest that one man 
can say to another is ‘you are a Christain.’ 
When my father became a Christain he 
had to move outside the city walls and 
could not see any members of his family. 
If they were seen talking together they 
would loose their caste. The difference 
between Christianity and other religions 
is we have God in the person of Jesus 
Christ, while in all others the people are 
striving to find God.”’ 
“Tndia is not an uneducated land. 
The people are enlightened. We have 
our schools and colleges, street railroads 
and electric lights. If there is anything 
that can break the caste system it is the 
religion of Jesus Christ. I am going 
back to do my little part in this great 
work.’’ 
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The girls in the sewing classes have 
been busy making Christmas articles. 
The lower grades have made pin-balls 
and hat-pin cushings; the upper classes 
are making fancy articles such as em- 
broidering doilies and hemstitching hand- 
kerchiefs. 
Supt. Fish has taken one of the best 
drawings from each of the grades in the 
schools here to Amesbury, where he is 
superintendent, and he will bring draw- 
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Read—At Newton, Dec. 19, Charlotte 
Louisa Read, born in Boston, Mar. 25, 
1818, and widow of the late Charles A. 
Read of Salem. Funeral from late 
residence, 62 St James st.; Friday, Dec. 
21st at 2 p.m. Interment at Newton 
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