Education of Indian Women.

In an admirable speech she made at the Diocesan College, Calcutta, Lady Chelmsford put in a strong plea for a higher type of education for our women.  “The women of India,” said Her Excellency, “must seek education, and education of a kind to fit them for the duties of home as they are beginning to appear in the new world of to-day. Hitherto the duties of an Indian home have been largely concerned with the domestic side, the preparation of food and clothing, and though many Indian women have forged for themselves a far wider sphere of influence, yet that has been largely due to natural gifts of management and ruling and has been accomplished in-spite of, rather than through, the medium of education”. We have only a word to add to this plea. The education of women must have it for its end not only to fit them for duties of home but also to fit them, where they have the natural aptitude and the opportunity, for the wider life of the world.