School for Married Hindu Ladies.

A SCHOOL for married Hindu Ladies conducted entirely by ladies is, we learn, in existence in Bombay and has been working for 2 ½  years. An appeal has just been published over the signature of a member of the Managing Committee, whose other members are Mrs. Orr, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Grieves and Lady Batchelor. This school was established in view of the peculiar social circumstances of Hindu ladies who are married early in life and are unable to receive any decent education in the existing schools which are all designed for spinsters. The present school therefore begins work at 1 p.m. and closes at 4 p.m. and trains married women for just the duties which are useful to them and gives them a general education. It is said to be conducted on the lines Y. M. C. A. and there are 100 ladies at present. It is a purely English teaching school with 8 classes from the Primary to the Cambridge Local and on the staff there are 3 European ladies.  

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