Indian Coronets

American women who for coronets should hesitate before accepting Indian ones. The case of the recent suit in which an English woinan sues for divorce from her Hindoo husband, points a moral. She alleged crnelty as a ground for her suit, and it is claimed that the same plea might be made by nearly all the women who marry orientáis and go home with them. As a usual thing, the oriental gentleman, pursuing his studies at an English or American university, is a picturesque figure. lie is likely to be very clever, and it is taken for granted j that he is a prince at least when he is at home. He is popular with his fellows, and through one of them he meets and marries a pretty, freelybrought-up girl. Then he takes her home. She may not meet with unkindness from her husband's family, for the orientáis have many amiable and tractive qualities, and they are not cruel. But if the husband has not out himself adrift from the religión and ties of his childhood his wife must conform to a certain extent to the ordinary life of the native woman. And, inasmuch as she will only do this so far as her love and duty to her husband oblige her, she will certainly fail to satisfy her new relatives, and will ,be looked on with coldness and suspicion by them.