New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-08-11
Women In the East.

The Monammedans nearly all believe
chat woman has no soul. This is not
taught in the Koran, but it is counte-
nanced by tho fact that. in the great
prophets paradise, hours are given to
the faithful instead of their earthly
wives. The Chinese make slaves of the
women in this world, and deny them
any hope of compensation hereafter.
In western Australia female children
ere always betrothed few days after
their birth; and should the first husband
die before the girl attains her maturity,
she belongs to his heir. In New Zea-
land, if a girls future husband should
die, no other can make such proposal
to her. Among the Hindoos, widows
may not marry again. In China the
parents bargain for the marriage of
their children while they are yet unborn.
The New Hollanders steal their wives {;
and if a woman attempts to escape
from her captor, he at once thrusts q
spear through the tleshy part of her
thigh. OF all methods of obtaining a
wife, that of purchase is the most uni
versal. 1t is practiced by the African,
by the black and brown races of the
Indian Archipelago, and by nearly all
the nations of Asia. The Circassian
women prefer being sent to Constants
nople to be sold. In Siam and Cochin
China men invariably purchase their
wives; but the women have one priv
lege, the parents can not sell them with
out their will. In China women are
sold without being consulted on the
sub ect, and have to obey every one in
the family of their purchaser, without
exception-the husbands control over
her being entirely unlimited. In Japan
presents are given to the bride, who
transfers them to her relatives, to defray
the expense and trouble incurred in
bringing her up from her infancy.
The Matter With the Watch.
A Brooklyn parent gave his daughter
q handsome watch on her eighteenth
birthday. One night the girl forgot to
wind it, and in the morning the hands
and wheels were motionless. She took
it for granted that she had used the
watch carelessly and that something
was broken inside. She did not like to
say any thing to her father about it, but
going to Fulton Street jeweler the next
day, asked him to look at the watch
and see what was the matter with it.
The jeweler took it, put magnifying
glass before his eyes, opened the case,
touched the wheels with pick, and re-
marked that it needed cleaning as it
was very dirty. On inquiring the cost of
such an operation she was told that it
would be $3.50. The young lady was
amazed, for she had had the watch only
three days and was reluctant to believe
that it required SO extensive renova-
ton. She passed on to the best known
jewelers. store in Brooklyn, and hand
ing her watch to the man at the coun-
ter, preferred the same request as be-
fore. He went through the same pro-
cess of inspection and said the hair
spring was broken, and the watch
needed cleaning. Inquiring the cost
again she was told it would be 81. She
said she wonld see her father about it,
and at night when he came home she
told him of her days doing, and said
his friend must have cheated him. Her
father took the watch to New York in
the morning, and in the course Of the
day stepped into his friend store where
he bought it and asked him to look at
the watch and see why it had stopped.
His friend after looking at it moment
took up q key, and winding it up,
handed it back with the remark: !" No
watch will run unless it is kept wound
up"