ROUND TABLE CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 14

ROUND TABLE CLUB.

Tho first dinner of its 1930 season was held last evening in tho Cottage Tea Rooms when the Auckland Business and Professional Women's Round Table Club assembled with their friends to hear Miss Lilian Edger, M.A., speak on "Women of India." The president, Miss L. Langsford, introduced the speaker. • Miss Edger dealt firstly >vith India as a continent rather than as a country, as the variety of climatic conditions affected the temperament and tendencies of the people. Some were highly philoiophic in their outlook, some remnants of the original inhabitants of India, and hill men who were far from having reached a high state of civilisation. Miss Edger's experiences were mainly with the Hindu population, and with those of the more highly cultured and better educated classes. Their tranquil outlook was the result of their philosophy and religion which meant the unity and divinity of all life which, added to their belief in reincarnation, gave then a real contentment of mind and spirit. Miss Edger explained the Purdah system and the friendly hospitality and sympathy she always encountered during her long stay in India.