Education of Women and Purdah Life.

The  other day we referred to what Dr. Lankester had to say about the influence of purdah  on the spread of consumption among women. And now a Behar contemporary says that higher education and free ideals of life are impossible to women on account of the social ideals determined by the purdah.  In Madras and Bombay where women are not hampered by this custom, there is greater readiness on the part of women to study in colleges and compete on equal terms with men for the prizes of life. But the same thing cannot be done in Upper India. Under these circumstances it is suggested that a different ideal of female education and courses of studies are necessary in provinces where purdah  prevails.