The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1900, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL. Tmizresting Story Told by Dr. Joscphine Elizholiz, Whe Has Spent Five Years of Professional AN 7% ((AINE STRICKEN BEING FED o and also the famine suffering its hand deep Into n for the a hercule B it is not sympathetic, aai ading this Indian P tly see that before I left India T sa ng who labor nce o ! one of the bazaars. a starving na- 3, grain is meas the close of t of mother, father and the wily er adulterates it They were emaglated 1, 80 he people only ge Ao g 1, so that the y only get a and seemed too weak thelr due amine { even to ra heads. An English er =t worth its welght in gentleman tossed them a rupee. At sight / ) ZFAMINE KITCHEN FOR CHILDREN of it the woman started up and then fell He =0 the overseer gets large profits for Lis dishonest pilfering. It is only fair to say that the Engiish Government has done all in its power to unger wolf, wealth in fewels walls starving their littie ones die and rolled into the roadway—dead, T leht of the silver had killed her, “One day 1 found a poor starved mother carrying her child to the bazaar to sell he must watch the Famine and Plague Stricken Districts of India. 9 FAMINE GIRLS IN CHARGE OF : THE \ MISSIONARIES [ = it. I bought the child and told the mother she might remain with it. My next door neighbor was an Englishman who had several dogs. He was in his garden feed- ing his pupples with milk. 2 v “I asked him if he would give me a lit- the milk for the starving woman. ' he sald, ‘I've only enough for ¥ pupples.’ “I took the woman home and did for her and the baby as well as I could. A few months later the same gentleman came to see me one day. The baby had grown fat and handsome. ‘ ‘How much will you take for the m: beby? he asked. “You cannot have it at any price; 1 replied. ‘When it was _starving you would not deprive your puppics of a drop of milk to keep it alive, and now you can- not have it." “He was astonished, but repeated his offer. He wanted a healthy child, which might be trained to be a good houre ser- vant.” In my Yro{esslon-l capacity and as an individual I have come across several cases of cruel indifference on the part of those able to alleviate the suffering. But never anything to equal this refusal te deprive a puppy of a little milk that a child might be nourished. T have general- 1y fouud people Keen to aid the natives, ) 1*} Rass even to the extent of ‘injuring their health, to say nething of shrinking their purses thereby. A great deal of activity is being shown in India to build irrigation worl and thus protect it against famime m drought. By means of irrigation it is hcre to_turn barren Jands to fruitful flelds. But it takes time and a vast amount of money ta accomplish this. The famine specter that for centuries has stalked through India will be crippled by modern methods. but it will be years, if ever, before it Is entirely laid low.