The Arizona sentinel., 1873-10-25
YUMA A. T SATURDAY. OCTOBER a5 1873
Wives fer the Wards.

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 l Under this heading. the Nsw
 York Wor,d gets of the following
 article rarely equaled for wit and
 aarcasin:
 It is stated that one of the wards
 of the nation has "requesitioned" his Great Father who is in Wash ington for loo pale.faced wives.
 alleging as g reason for tEis Iin-
 precedented demand that tse | pale faees have made such inroadS upon the available stock of dusky
 maid6ns that there are not wives
 enouge to go round his tribe.
 We do not intend to strive with
 this sachem for his demand upon the Indian Departndent, ner shall
 we hint that his warriors are bet
 ter of and happier wifeless than
 they would be should some female
 creature not too bright nor good
 drop her heop-skirts O nights be.
 side Che furry pallet of each or in
 the morning eeeson her grass
 hoppers with her smiles Man,
 being reasonable, must get mar
 ried as we'll as drunk. Nor shall
 we criticiSe the manner mare than
 the matter of his request, The Indian Departme ent has furnished the Indian with the Cas.ile soap
 which he does not use and the fine-tOeth combs which he does not need, and has given him each day his daily bread, hair oil. canned peaches, and tatt!ng.shut ties. Small wonder, then, to that accommodating bureau he goes, that they who give hoop skirts will also furnish Wepien 10 fit them, and that wives are as prime necessities to the savage as sardines (small tins.)
 To obtain the requisite nitn15erf of wives will not be by any nleansl difficult. There afe thousands oN husbands who would willingly spare theirs. Over aBd above ! this certain source thefe are the 1 20, ,000 surplus females of Massa- thodgh; after Inc expe- tients of Mrs. Sitting Bear No. 3, nee Amanda Barber, it is possible 1 dans would offer even fewer in than maideniood in | Massachusetts. But there is al- 1 ways One re8obrce-the strong women ers1 yu h lnk it ] possible to III the saCheu0 s -sQui. 3iJi3H with ease and advantage ! possibly n himself but certainly to the public at large.
 There are probably 5000 women ln the United States whose intel Iectaal measles have struck in instead of coming to the surface and VAnishi1a in the healthful rash sf nura B, house keeping, clergymen, and barter ing moth eaten pantaloons fer Dresden china sheph herdesses and tin pans. These gre the women Who wear their hair short aud their tongues long; who write Woman with a capital W, aId in- qualify the noun man with the prefix tyrant; whose husbands are not their atiinit;es, md whose aSinities are not their husbands; who have missions, put do not pretend to have mor- Us. If the Government would but all a convention of these ladies md eXhOrt its dusky wards, as he children of Isreal did the sons If Benjamin, to lie in wait round he corners and catch them wives, we feel sure that public opinion, regardless of previous party afi- iations," as the grangers say, would warmly applaud the act.
 What the result would be we, IS philosophers and physiologists. 10 not care to anticipate!, Wheth- sr the woman would talk Cr15S- syed CataI:Tount to death CT Jross- eyed C2tamUunt would tOm4- hawk the woman would mas c 10 difference; either way 1t would ! nuFG tO our good. There iaigl5l 3e cause for apprenension sysTe ii likely that the union thus forHel 1 would prove productive, for ,foss between a Sioux Chief and Shffekihg Sister, combining the rrepressibfe volatility of one pa. rent with the irreclaimable vii .iousness of the other would be far from desirable. But there is title fear of such contingency. Tho strong-minded female, tho ,emetinfGs g wffs, is never 6 akd the cultivation of the indian faboose has become a work 1