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MISS BINI ADDY.ISnCaA BENGALESE SINGEK,Miss Jiiiii Add7, the Bengalese singer who has just armed! in New Zealand, is deeply interested, in, social service, and in the good of the women of her own country. She keeps in touch with tlie Y.W.C.A. work, and at Calcutta met Alisa Jean Bugg, who had just returned from her furlough in New Zealand, and who was in form for more of her good work.Miss Addy said the idea of education for women walt; spreading slowly hut steadily in India, and would take time to permeate Btieh a vast country. Those who were in touch with the educational advantages were often anxious to continue to the university courses, and later took up medicine, law or educational work, and with much, success.Jji reply to a quenvm, Mis* Addypaid that the idea of juiuhih came first from the Mohammedan religionists, and spread later to the Hindus, who protected their women at the time of the Mogul v.ars by keeping them in purdah, nmf this giactually because a custom.The older women, who were accustomed to it, prefer] cd to go on with it, but the voun°er women \\crc glad tu be morea nfree.t *lingcent lies-hers first r to omo. bv ■dealitvi-11 Ml,tart.’rodand•bilethenil t.theMiss Addy has a great regard forflamlhi mill Jiis woik for the lt;‘uiit.ollch-ablm-T and rein.uked that the diHicullyiji getting for n ,i! cl with hH ink lay in the pirgidnws of the lilgli-i,la~s Jlinh-tnin.-', vhn had been brought up with htiict ideas about these people, vv lm often 'mi! given the inughest and at times most revolting work to (lo. However, they were quite capable of cultivation and uplift, just as other human being-, and it v\as only a question of time” before the old mane and custom died out. She said that (hi ml hi was educated in England and was £ lawyer by profession, and went tn South Africa to practise. JTc found there the prejudice against coloured [icnpK and that gave him flic idea of wmking for l)is own people in the wonderful w.iv he hudlloUR.Miss Adtly rejoices in the fact that sheis able to sing. She found she had o voice for singing early in life, hut. it was regarded as inipmper for an oifho-dox woman tn be hoaid—«he v as supposed to speak hardly above a wlu-per, hut oa for Kinging- -that v as uiiWmd of. So as the prejudices ate being timkenshe Inis more eau-e than many to he hh 1 j]iv in the gift she has l.cen favoured with! and to be able to make use of it. Through her voice, she lms truveiled widely in England and on the Continent, and has had great joy in doing so.The well known poet Tagore, she stated, is leading a gloat rev null m thenrt-. of music and song in Tnd»,, n college of numio has been establishediVhuclnnw to courage the ynnn^erpeople to make a serious *tndvmu ic. Mi-s Addy lms a very ™ tv. and U n most d.gmfliHlfigiuc in her nationaltof5
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