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Giles politely handed his charge over, and went on his way, sincerely hoping that the next to demand his care would be a man. The Bible-woman drew the arm of poor Mrs Frog through her own, and in a few minutes stood beside her in the desolate home. "Nobody cares," muttered the wretched woman as she sank in apathy on her stool and leaned her head against the wall. "You are wrong, dear Mrs Frog.
Mary Batchelor, so long as he remembered her, whether as his old nurse, or in later days as the Bible-woman of the village, had always been remarkable for a peculiar dignity and neatness. "Mary, is there anything wrong?" he asked her, holding her hand. "Coom yer ways in," said the old woman, grasping his arm, and taking no notice of Letty.
Then a circulating library is kept constantly in use by the Bible-woman, who carries a book in her bag to each house which she visits, leaving it until her round again gives the opportunity of taking it up and putting another in its place. Best of all is the friendship which springs up between these poor people and their helpers.
To compare the South's effort to preserve race integrity with India's Juggernaut of caste is absurd. Bombay, India. In India marriage is as inevitable as death, as Herbert Compton remarks. There are no bachelors or old maids. "You are married, of course?" the zenana women will ask when an American Bible-woman calls on them; and, if the answer is in the negative, "Why not?
Perhaps only a Bible-woman or two know the history, and could tell it, of the London factory girl. Their pay is said to be wretched, whatever work they do; their food, I am told, is insufficient for young and hearty girls, consisting generally of tea and bread or bread-and-butter for breakfast and supper, and for dinner a lump of fried fish and a piece of bread. What can be done?
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