The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-21
WOMEN or THE EASE.
An Interesting History of RE.
lnarlGable Females

AsAdfAAslDle ehaIeS.
simply merchandise, bought, as Rachel
by Joseph, and handled to suit the safe
and pleasure of their owners, as Rebecca
and Sarah in Egypt and Gerar. Yet
Athali2, daughter Of Omri, sat on the
throne three years, and Alexandria, a
Hebrew woman, reigned over them.
sEMIRAMIs,
a woman in Assyrian slavery, beeame 4
queen, and made her name gredt'by the
building Of Babylon in single year.
Though the Turks had power of life and
death over their wives, and if they REBEL
ed under the terrible tOrtures and punish
ments of their lot, the very inexpensive
power 70 divorce by simply answering,
when they asked permission to go out,
"Go!" without adding "but come back
again, yet i'll 1880 the greatest actual
power in Turkey was Sultana Valedeh.
PERSIAN WOMEN
of the lower classes are servile slaves,
supporting masters of unlimited power,
who do absolutely nothing themselves,
and the upper classes arely leave the
harem from the cradle to the grave.
Yet Cassandra, wife Of Cyrus, g ruled
Cyrus and Persia as she would" and
ruled so well that at her death the nation
meurned twenty days. "Mourned for
woman !" The worst effect Of Moham-
MECHANISM has been its degrading Of wo-
men, but the wife of '' The Prophet"
hadijah, was the first to embrace his
religion and, he afterward said, She
was the greatest, best and most powerful
Of all who accepted it."
REDoUIN WOMEN
never see the face of man except those
of their husbands, nor any walls but
those of their own harem, and while
their husbands are away, are hardly al
lowed the necessarie6 of life. Yet the
wusid is indebted to N1herul Nsa fer the
first of the beautiful cashmere shawls, and
the existence of that exquisite perfume
altar properly spellee "atyr") of roses.
Her name was stamped upon the coin of
India, and the title given her Of Moor
Jehon, Light of the w orld."
All the cotton and silk used in BRmah
is the work Of her women, and those ex-
qusite fabrics and delicate designs dis
played at the Centeni ial, might well nave
been placed 10 woman's pavilion, for
they were all the work of the gentlewo
men of Burmah for which they proba-
bly, received blows that they had not work.
ed faster, and for their endurance and per-
severance, cheered by the proverb,
Woman has many lives, and bears much
killing"
sIMEsE WOMEN
fight beside their husbands, and often in
front of them, who at home are beaten
like beasts to all manner of drVdgeries
They however, have tie uncommon priv
Hedge of refusing an offered husband if
they choose. and take their revenge in
advance by refusing any one who comes
without a number of human skulls he
has taken in battle.
CHINESE WOMEN
are, perhaps, of all the most secluded in
the upper classes. The bride in not even
seen by the bridegroom till in a close pal
anquin she is brought to his door, where
in full dress, with the key of the palan-
quln that has been sent to him in advance,
he waits her. He has the one alternative
of refusing her if she displeases him, at
her. She is his slave completely, except
thai he cannot sell her till he has gained
divorce, and is subject to such notices
as ''irst dressed and last undressed all
the year round" and the like, and in some
parts of China, to divorce that consists
in simply breaking "chop sticks before
witnesses. Many writers, hover ascribe
the spinning to the wife of the Emperor
4aO, and the discovery of the use of the
silk worm was the work of the wife of
Hoang III. Silk worms until lately were
cared for entirely by women, called Tsam
Now.
IN LIBERIA,
where the marriage ceremony consists of
the brides taking off the bridgroom's
shoes as a sign of subsection, and being
laid at his feet with the expression:
'Wolf, take thy lamb" the physicians,
and sorcerers feared and obeyed by men
are chiefly women.
IN JAVA,
before Moham d4nism found the island,
women were considered equal with men,
and in Celebese, where there is an cleo
tive government, the throne was oftener
held by women than men.
Notwithstanding the general degrade
ton of the sex, energetic, powerful wo-
men have made their power felt even in
Egypt. The wife of Mohammed Ali was
made judge by the peopie, who rarely
appealed to the Basha, and when they
did receive the reply ''By my two eyesl
if she require it, it must be done though
il be through fire, water and stone
Dido, sister of Pygmalion, King of
Tyre, was founder Of Carthage. Mr.
Park, the great African traveller, pays
this tribute to women OF Africa: In all
travels, / never addressed language of
politeness to a dark skinned woman
without receiving a polite reply; and,
If hungry, thirsty. wet or sick, never