The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-17
Carious Facts from, savage Lie.

A chivslrous regard for the fair sex hiss
always been looked upon ss one Of the
great diferentisl points between barbarism
and refinement. And there is no more
significant fact in the experience of q saw
| sge family than this-that she expects to
be i'll treated IS q matter of course. In
deed the absence of outrage is frequently
raOarded o. --t--r,- =A--is- .-Ee SvIf-
20 wife, writes Mr.. Hosde, dis not sound
ly fogged every now and then, she consid-
ers herself an Injured woman and remon-
strates with her husband" In her pleas
ing "reminiscences Of Tartar Steppes," Mrs.
Atkinson SAYS that on her arrival at Bar
naoul she discovered the meaning of the
whip which she had observed suspended
over the beds in the houses of all the peas.
antry on the road.
A female, who was married some little
time before, went TO one of the authorities
to complain that her husband did not love
herss husbands ought to do both at home
and abroad. HWhy did she think 80 2" was
the question. because replied she, Ghe
had never once thrsshed her" The in
strument Of hAgellstiou had, in fact, been
hanging over their couch in perfect idle
ness ever since the wedding. When wo-
men are thus degraded into lerfs, is it any
wonder that the sex should be low in in
teiligence and deplorsbly deep in igno-
rsnce2 Sometimes, indeed, they exhibit q
degree of fsimplicitY-shAll we call it sim
pliciiy (which is perfectly astounding.
On Mr.. Reade's visit TO the Gamma count
", in equatorial Africs, the chief with
more politeness than prudence, sent his
daughter to wait upon the white man.
The Princess AnAngs was 8 belle savage,
with fine form, beautiful bronze com
plexion, and pair Of large, gentle eyes,
which would have made havoc with sus.
csptible hearts had they been fixed in
European head. Now this young lady
was so thoroughly unsophisticsted, that
she supposed that the travellers must have
been painted white, and great was her sur
prise on wetting her finger and rubbing
his cheek to learn that the color would
not come off. She thought his hair must
be loan from some wild animal, and ex.
hibited much astonishment when she
found she could not remove it IS easily as
his hst. She could not comprehend why
Europeans wore clothes, and the discovery
of pockets in his dress, and the disappear
ance of his hands in those pouches, startled
her as much as if he had buried them In
his body.
The latter phenomenon, in fact, was
deemed so marvellous that invitations
were sent to other families, VINO fOcked to
the hut to see the traveller insert and
withdraw his hands fifty times in success
sion. But there was one point upon which
Ansnga was SO profoundly uneducatsd
that Mr.. Resde's fidelity as 3 narrator
might at hrst be very reasonably suspected.
One evening he ventured 10 kiss the prin-
cess who msde his breakfast, cooked his
meals, and washed his feet. She uttered
shrek, and fed from the house as if he had
levelled pistol at her head. He found on
inquiry that this mode of salutation was
HutteIly unknown in Western Africa"
It is difficult to believe. We never
heard before of race Of beings so deplora-
bly, bsnig ghtsd that they could not compre-
hend-And comprehending appreciate
this pleasing function of the human lips.
The traveller, indeed, suggests thst, as he
was in an snthropophsgous neighborhood,
the dsmsel might regard it as csnnibal
measure, and conclude that he was prepar-
ing to deVour her heart; and it must be
said for her that when she learned that
kifsing was one of the luxuries of civilizs-
tion, and much in vogue in polished com
munities, she appeared TO submit with ad-
mirsble resignaton.-Ths British Quarter
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