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London, England, 1830-12-20 00:00:00

SCINTILLAL

A FEW WORDS ON WOMEN.

" In the convt7rs•tiOnof ladles, ;ail; an academy of virtue, I learnt
nothing but goodness, saw nothing but nobleness; and one might as
weU be drunk in a crystal fountain, as have any evil thoughts whibt
in their company, which I shall always remember as the happiest and
innocentest part of all my life.."—FLacxwox's Ertipmaticat Mame.
Sam a 1888.
I. 11eV and lia(f.--Pars.orrarrtre speaks of a woman who was
black from her heed to her bosom, and white to her feet. See p. 127
of Bsawicw's busied= of Philostrotito 'a We of Apollontess.
Fattened atromsla for 41farviepe—A girl after she is he.
Imbed, is cooped up in a small room, shackles of gold and silver are
placed upon the ancW and wrists, es a piece of dress. If she is to be
married to a man who has discharged, despatched, or lost a former wife,
the shackles which the former wife wore, are put upon the new bride's
blobs, and she is fed until they are filled up to the proper thickness.
The food used for this custom, worthy of the barbarians, Is a seed
called drmsgA, which is of an extraordinary fattening quality, and also
famous for rendering the milk of nurses rich and abundant. With
this sled, and their national dish esistiosee, the bride is literally cram.
and; and many actually die under the spoom...See Maxi:uses
docoaust of nook, 1811, p. 80.
One who had twenty -fin Hosbends.--Ev ea.Tx in his Me.
moire, mendons the case of a woman in the Netherlands, who had
been married twenty.five times, and who was then prohibited from
marrying spin, yet it could not be proved, says he, that she had ever
made any of her husbands away, though the suspicion bad brought
bet divers dens to trouble.

IV. The war which abort avow mar tf pattette.—D'Assovet,
in his Araisftwira, ti. 58, thus woks of his mother t—She was a Hide
bit of an Ammar, Iterity disiesis, who to repair the defects of her
dadaativo sin, was sash high pielems,that whoever would have taken
the pains to stilt the such of dams Might have may made very good
'shad hums of the. a so that she one pat them off, without losing
just sae half if bar illostrious prom
Joszes CAsaa *costes' says that the women of Italy wore such
very high pattens, that his father used to say. that men who had such
wives found but half of them in bed, the other half remaining in their
patens..—De Ante Peeks, i. 13.
FATHER daitassr., in his Dearing Cetriesse, p. 323. has the fol.
lowing story :—st. Vincent Ferrier tells us, in one of his Sermons, that
a gentleman, In his time, having married a woman by proxy, whom be
had never seen but In a picture. of a and Rise. and tolerable height in
appearance. found himself strangely dec. ir..d when he saw her in the
chamber without patent, for she was diminished and shortened by ono
half, which frightened him so that he asked bar, somewhat angrily,
" Where have you left the tat of your porno ?"
V. Bow to make a WOlllOl5 cosiest the Truth.—To obtain this very
desirable end, Donocarros informs us. that nothing more Is ogees.
*cry than to pluck out the tongue of a live frog, and apply it to her
heart while slaving. See PLINY, ass. if. 5, who truly observes, that
if such lathe fact, -frogs might be rendered moss useful to mankind
than laws; and, ht another passage :Av. 4, the sem writer ascribes a
like virtue to rho heart of an ow which. if lahl on a woman's left
breast while she was asleep, would make her reveal all her secrets.
VI. Harman, masigleatiosu May aunt hove to he kordsoaar.—
According to Joao Nova•ous Arrows:a, there are no less than 30
things necessary to maks a woman perfectly handsome: Let her who
would be accounted beautiful have that thirty things—three things
whits, three black, and three red ; throe long and three short; three
thick, three slender; three narrow, three wide, and three smalL Thom
of my readers who may be desirous of as explication are referred to the
Sohn assistatis of the above author, or to a French work, entitled De to
towage of anode dos dews.
VII. What Mehepe sue of women. Thus Latimer It Is a great
thing fora man to tub ono wife rightly and ordinately. For a woman
la frail and podia unto all evils: • woman is a very weak road, sod
may monde:ant a man, and bring hint unto eviL litany examples we
have in Holy Scripture. Adam had but one wife, called Eve; and how
soon had she t him to MIMIt unto evil, and to come to destruc.
don. How did wicked Jesabel pervert King liacales bean from GOD
and all godliness, and finally unto dasuuniso I It Is a very hard
thing for a mat to rule wall one woman. Bishop Aylmer divided wo-
men into two sorts; "some of them wiser, better learned, disatetor.
more mosthat than a amber of men," but the other he describes as
being **ad, Oath, imam. ilibbergibba, tailors, triflers, wavering,
witless, Masai onmsale !table, carats% rush, proud, dainty, nice, tale.
bearers, opas.dasppew twaramaissrs, eviLtongual, worse minded,
and in way wigs diddled with the dregs of the devil's dunghUL—Sec
STaTrZ.O 14fr Of hiaters
VIIL Paps hoisseat XL and opoisatiessins skewing their tweets.
This Pops not big able to persuade the fair sox to discontinue ex.
pang their lamb std anus. published a deers, November the 30th.
lin, by whish oil =dem mil woman were commanded to cover their
shoulders aad breast to ink aesk sad their 'etas to the ostba, with
soma thick and untranspamith sail they that did not obey this own
within slx days after les pablimdsa, wen a be occonsammakatod taw
facto. so that the Pops algae had power to absolve them, unless they
wen at the point of death. AU the potty women
of wisely laughed at
those tegriblo thrsateoiags, and tialithaleds the poor Pops sod
his exannanoicaloa, to dross thamotals is wancoft mum vs, awn
suited to the full display of rhea &USW
Witt be Waseversed lots we da the etbsr wood. Tbe
same say that at the tour ardthal panto of the world that are attain
sensate., the inhabitants whereof as fat a Masse it 1,4601.4 who,.

by they enjoy a supreme felicity; that all who obey the laws of
will, after this life, go up into those places; that they will be born again
there; and that Fotoke will transform them, and give them thiriy.iwo
forms or shapes, and eighty qualities, with which they shall live in
perfect beatitude to all eternity. Women will not he admitted into 11,
countries; but those who shall be saved for having obeyed Fotokt
laws, will be transformed into men !
X. Allowed a plurality N huebarods. The women in Thibt t are
allowed a plurality of husbands. Seentxxawr's View of itindosian
In the tribe of the Naives, on the coast of Malabar. the men can hate
only one wife; while a woman, on the contrary, may have many ho..
bands. See MONTEIQUIBU'S Spirit of Lows, xvi. 5. A sin illy
anomaly prevailed, according to STRAZO, in some districts in 54,4
where, he says, each woman was cowpo'led to receive five husb:nth
while in other cantons each man was expected to have seven wire
J. J. W