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Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: (Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ried to induce him to give up his ideas of asceticism, and comeback to his wife; but he would nob listen to them. One day shewent to his hut, thinking she would throw herself at his feet, andplead with him to come home to her; but, seeing her approachingat a distance, he made an opening through the back of the hut andcrept out, remaining concealed till she was tired of waiting andreturned home. This state of things continued for about eight years, when thepoor girl became completely discouraged, and gave herself up todespair. One day she jumped into a well; but being at once dis-covered, she was rescued from death. From that time her friendswatched her, and once, as has been said, she had secreted a quan- THE MISERY OF EARLY MARRIAGES. 11 tity of opium, evidently with the intention of taking her life.They had taken it away from her; but she was finally too quickfor them, and had drank the poison before their suspicions werearoused. And so her unhappy life of twenty-two years came to a
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A MARATHI WOMAN. close. Oh, the crowd of evils that follow in the train of these earlymarriages! Think of the wasted lives! Think of the untold sor-sows that are crowded into the lives of Brahmin widows all overthis country! Some of them can remember no other state but 12 LIFE AND LIGHT. widowhood. Then think of those who are not widows, but whofind they have been united in childhood to one without commonsense, or one who has developed more into a fiend than a man,and are doomed to drag out miserable lives in their companionship! Not long ago a Brahmin pleader, whom we knew very well, cameto call on us. He said he had just come from Satara, where he andhis wife had been to bring home their daughter. This daughter,married in early childhood, had, according to custom, gone to livewith her husbands parents. A few months after she went thefather received a letter from some one, he knew not whom, urginghim to come to his daughter quickly, if he wished to see her alive.He and his wife haste

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