A BRAVE WOMAN SENTRY.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 54, 31 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

A BRAVE WOMAN SENTRY.

Who says that women can't be soldiers ? We may, it seems, make doctors, or lawyers, or football players/ of them ; they may be our mothers, sisters (our own or other persons'), cousins, or aunts; they may even be domestic servants, or rule an empire on which the sun neVer sets ; but soldiers — Never! Wiseacres' who talk thus should read again and again the stories of the women's heroic deeds that brighten the dismal pages of the Indian Mutiny. At Uawnpore, for instance, women stood side by Bide with men against the common enemy ; women tended 'the wounded and the dying, at the peril of their own lives, and fed the fighters when it was no joke to fetch water from a shot-peppered well. Who kept guard over the Sepoy prisoners ? Why, a soldier's wife. Sword in hand she stood unflinchingly over the prisoners while the siege went on, and though they greatly outnumbered her, they held her high spirit in such awe that it was only when the brilliant defence was grown hopeless, and the town given up in reliance upon the word of Nana Sahib — one of the biggest scoundrels in history — that these women-guarded prisoners, began to breathe once more in something like comfort. That brave soldier's wife was ac fine a sentry as ever her husband could have.been in those black days. —From Little Folks.