Dr. E. B Ryder

White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 13, 1 July 1896, Page 8

Dr. E. B Ryder

This clever woman has delivered her courseof health lecturesinChristchurch, and has also given her most interesting lecture on life in India. The attendance at her lectures has been large and increasing, and Dr. Ryder has created a most favourable impression. Her protest against the use of drugs and alcohol, and the frequency of unnecessary surgical operationsfor women, showed that she is abreast with the best modern teaching. Her advice as to the value of water as a drink, the use of wholemeal bread in preference to white bread, her suggestions as to

rational clothing of woollen texture, and hanging from the shoulders, were most valuable. The harmfulness of corsets, and indeed of all garments that compress the body, was specially emphasised. Dr Ryder is doing philanthropic work in creating sympathy for the little child-wives in India, and circles have been formed to sustain the interest. Donations received by these circles are to be forwarded, not to Dr Ryder, who takes no responsibility as to funds, but to the Central Committee in India.