Regina Thuniboo What Will Life Bring to Her? Meenachi of Madura Married to the God Will Life Be Kind to Her? A Temple in South India The Sort of Home that Arul Knew Priests of the Hindu Temple Tamil Girls Preparing for College The Village of the Seven Palms Basketball at Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow Biology Class at Lucknow College A Social Service Group-Lucknow College Village People Girls of All Castes Meet on Common Ground Shelomith Vincent Street Scenes in Madras Scenes at Madras College At Work and Play The New Dormitory at Madras College The Old India Contrasts First Building at New Medical School, Vellore Dr. Scudder and the Medical Students at Vellore Where God is a Stone Image--Where God is Love A Medical Student in Vellore Better Babies Freshman Class at Vellore-Latest Arrivals at Vellore Dora Mohini Maya Das Mrs. Paul Appasamy Putting Spices in Baby's Milk Baby on Scales A Representative of India's Womanhood PREFACE These chapters are written with no claim to their being an accurate representation of life in all India. That India is a continent rather than a country is a statement so often repeated that it has become trite. To understand the details of girl-life in all parts of this continent would require a variety of experience which the present writer cannot claim. This book is written frankly from the standpoint of one who has spent fifteen years in the South, and known the North only from brief tours and the acquaintance which reading can give. For help in advice and criticism thanks are due to friends too numerous to name; especial mention, however, should be made of the kindness of three Indian critics who have read the manuscript: Miss Maya Das of the Y.W.C.A., Calcutta, Mr. Chandy of Bangalore, and Mr. Athiseshiah of Voorhees College, Vellore. TO-MORROW "If there were no Christian College in India, the foreshadowings of a great To-morrow would demand its creation. It is needed: (1) for training native leadership in this age when all India is demanding Indian leadership along all lines, and is impatient of foreign control. (2) for developing Christian workers for the multitudes in India who are turning to Christianity and need care and shepherding in schools and in all phases of daily life. (3) for the education of those who will be the homemakers of their country, that the stamp of Christianity may be upon the minds and lives of mothers and wives in this New India. (4) for moralizing the social life in India which otherwise would have the bias of an increasingly disproportionate educated male population. (5) for demonstrating the uplifting influence of Christ upon that sex which has been so disastrously ignored and repressed in India, and for proving that the best is none too good for Indian womanhood. 'Better women' are the strongest factor in the development of a Better India.