Career Of An English Girl

Several years ago Miss Beiby, a young English woman who had studied medicine to fit herself for usefulness as a missionary at Liucknow in India, was sent for by tha wife of the native prince of Punna, who was í 11. Punna was a long distance from Lucknow, and the journey was a dangerous one. If Miss Beiby went, she would be separated by more than a hundred miles from any white man. Her friends urged her to refu&e. Tlie English woman was young and timid, but she knew her duty; she went, remained twomonths, and curedthepatient. When she was aboutto return, the Ranee sent to her and begged her tq go in person to Queen Victoria, with the message that Indian wonun, not being allowed the attendance oí men physicians, died in ureat numbers every year for want of care. The Ranee brought paper, pen and nk, and with tears besought Miss Beiby to write her petition to the Queen to send to them women doctors. "Write it small, Saheba," she begged, "for I shall put it in a locket and hang ie about your neck, and you must wear it until you put it in the hands of the great Ranee herself." Miss Beiby retnrned to Encland the next year, obtained a:i interview with Queen Victoria, and placed the locket in her hands with the messace. The Queen was deeply touctied, and enipowered Lady Duiïerin, the wife of the viceroy of India, to form an association for sending out femala medical aid to the women of India. Many women doctors have been sent out by the association, and Indian women are now being educated as physicians and nurses. An estáte of 50 acres, with larae buildings, has been gi ven by a native prince as a hospital for Hindoo female patients. Had the timid missionary refused to undertal the perilous duty to one woman these great blessings - which are but the bezinning of help and hope for all the women of India - probably nevet wonld have come to them. Sow the seeds, however small it bc, of good j deeds. Only God knows what tho fruit will be.