4 JULY 1914, Page 23

A CLOISTERED VIRTUE.

[To TEl EDITOR 01 TEl "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—There are curious echoes that occasionally come from India of the views of women there on the conduct of suffragettes. My daughter is a very devoted missionary. She went to see a Mohammedan lady, and had hardly explained her purpose in calling when her friend began : "I hope so much you will arrange now to have all Englishwomen shut up as we are, they do such very shocking things. I assure you we are much happier. We are kept from every- thing wrong. Look at me ! I never go out. I am never tempted to do anything I should not, and I say my prayers five times a day." My daughter did not mention her rejoinder.