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law and mothers-in-law especially in the absence of their husbands who would have stood by their side, had they been alive. The taunts and retorts of their sisters-in-law pierce their hearts. They pass their whole time in utter dejection and dispondency as they cannot amuse themselves with reading even on account of their sheer illiteracy. They thus shed lears in loneliness. Oh! Compassion ! establish “Homes for the Widows" for such distressed widows so that they may learn there, pass their time in happiness forge.ting their bereavements from their husbands as well as may bei.er their prospects not only so far as this world is concerned but the other world also leading exemplary life shaped and moulded after reading the biographies of the ancient heroines of character. (3)
THE LAME AND THE CRIPPLED
Oh! Compassion ! here are in this world some who are blind by birth and some deaf; sone dumb while some lame and maimed. They are anyhow tolerating the pain accruing from their congenital defect but as if this was not enough, they are attacked by the scarcity of food and by poverty. They are ihus reduced to a wretched condition. Oh! Compassion ! come and stay in my heart so that being urged by you, I may be able to found or alteast to help financially the schools or any similar Institution for the Blind, the Deaf and the Dumb. (4)
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