Christian herald and signs of our times . were set, like so many little boxes onthe floor ; for the beard walls of these stalls didnot reach half way to the ceiling. Is it notdreadful to think of Women, our sisters, beingthus crowded together like stalled cattle ? A dear little pupil in one of our schools wastelling me of her older sister, who was presentedto the King when she was fourteen, and hasbeen in the palace ever since. She has an annualgift from the royal treasury of some sixty dollars,and a slight monthly allowance besides. Herfather sends her rice, and she has some of herother food
Christian herald and signs of our times . were set, like so many little boxes onthe floor ; for the beard walls of these stalls didnot reach half way to the ceiling. Is it notdreadful to think of Women, our sisters, beingthus crowded together like stalled cattle ? A dear little pupil in one of our schools wastelling me of her older sister, who was presentedto the King when she was fourteen, and hasbeen in the palace ever since. She has an annualgift from the royal treasury of some sixty dollars,and a slight monthly allowance besides. Herfather sends her rice, and she has some of herother food from the royal kitchen. It is not true * Krom Siam; or, the Heart of Farther India. By MaryLovina Cort, a resident of Siam. A graphic description of thecountry, people, manner*, customs, and religion of this strangi-nation by one who was evidently a careful and close observerPp. 399. Price, $ Published by Anson D. F. Randolph cVCompany, 58 West Tweaty-third Street, New York. 828 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. Dec. Preliminaries of the Welsh Eisteddfod. The Arch Druid Proclaiming the Eisteddfod. that these women each have separate huddle together sometimes five or six inone house, with their relatives and of higher rank may live more retired, andthey also receive more from the royal many of them are rich in their own right,and do not depend on the King for support ;and indeed they are not responsible for theirpresence in the Kings household, having hadnothing to do with it except perhaps to consent,with a childs foolish heart, to the flatteries andrepresentations of their designing relatives, who,in Siam as in some other lands, are alwaysanxious to get their daughters married off, notparticularly caring what they get them marriedinto. So we must pity more than we blamethese poor, blind, helpless women for living aswe find them. Saddest of all, they know noth-ing, these poor palace women, of their Redeemer,the holy
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