Jain Gazette 1906 04

Author(s): Jagmanderlal Jaini, Sumerchand Jaini
Publisher: Jaina Gazette Office

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THE JAINA GAZETTE.
APRIL
every thing are the sure roads to success and if he but during his stay there make the proper use of his time and energy, which we hardly doubt, we feel confident that he will prove an ornament to the Jaina Community.
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"Oh woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man; we would have been brutes without thee."
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Female institutions.
There are few who deny the truth of the above saying but how many are there who strive to see woman fit to temper man! From childhood to the grave, man is unjust towards woman; while he takes every possible care to educate the male issue, the female one is left without any, He spends a good deal over the former and grudges even a few pice to the latter. It is an illustration of the selfishness of man and it is just in the fitness of things, that he is rewarded for it in his home-life. Who does not know how happier he would have been, had he bat a sympathetic wife-one who could understand his purpose, advise him and serve as a pastime. Home is her domain and she can make a heaven or hell of it. Strive ye, therefore, men to make her a loving mate, a better half in its true sense and half your miseries shall fly away like gloom before gleam.
Woman waited so long to see what men proposed to do for her but when they did nothing she has girt up her own loins to do what she feels she cannot exist without. All honour to those ladies of our community who are doing their best to educate their sisters. Men's work, therefore, remains only so much as to push them on. Neglect of this duty shall be a sad debt and ruinous to our own interests.
We read with pleasure Srimati Ganga Debi's article on "Jaina Stree Samaj and Vidya" in the Hindi Jaina Gazette of the 24th March. She rightly complains of the selfishness of men and their injustice towards women. She advocates the cause of education on the principle of household utility and with this aim she has founded an association named Streegyan bardhani Samaj at Moradabad. She herself instructs women that come to the temple and has organised four classes in the four quarters of the city where the Jainas principally reside. The mistress in each of these classes is the resident of the very quarter to which the class belongs and the class room is her own dwelling place. We congratulate Srimati on her admirable scheme and recommend its adoption everywhere. It is but encouraging sign of the times that women are growing conscions of their existence. Thus we have very good institutions at Idar, Rajkote, Ahmedabad etc., all founded by the