Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-29
u SOLOMON on DIVORCE.
The 8oens Witnessed BY Colonel Iewdns
on the Malay Pentnaula.

Ths aosns Witnessed ~ Colonel Iewtns
e on tho 1GalAy Peninsula.
From Lieut. Colonel Levin's India. :
Il was sitting with the Rajah On the
raised platform in front Of his house.,
drinking tea in the COIL OF the evening.
Suddenly our peaceful, silent smoking
was disturbed by q young and very
pretty girl, with flowers in her hair and
silver ornaments on her neck and arms,
who rushed up the ladder and threw
herself At the Rajah's feel in passion
OF tears. After her assembled slowly, a
number Of villagers wrapped in their
long, homespun mantles, who quietly
sat down on the platform to the right
and left of the chief. The Rajah
smoked on quietly, until the woman's
sobs had grown somewhat less violent,
when he remarked quietly, Weeping
is good for women. res
A few more pulls of fragrant to bacco,
and, as the sobbing still continued, he
added with solemnity: "Three con-
ditions are to be avoided first. not to
be able to weep; second, to weep with
out knowing for why; third, to weep too
much" The last condition was pro-
nounced with impressive distinctness,
and an asserting murmur went around
the assembly. The girl raised her head.
my father, cannot live with Tawngey
7 hate him!" "What has he done? Has
he beaten you ?" t'No, he has not beat.
en- me; that should not have minded.
He suspects me. He watches me, and I
will not endure it. demand to be d.
yorced. Oh! my father, be it on J our
headp' ''Tawngey, come forward, thou
son of foolishness! What is this I hear q
Tawngey appeared, Sinking shame
facedly from the depths of the crowd,
first making a iowly obeisance, he
sat down before tho chief. tsDfy
flirting fGrs s1 With lit is false-it lis is
false!" vehemently cried the girl, dash
ing sway her tears. II went with the
other girls to draw water in the stream,
and Adiu's sweetheart, Pawthee, came
and began laughing, and so we splashed
him with water. Then this man."
(pointing with concentrated scorn at the
wretched Tawngey) this man was spy
ing behind a tree, and he came and
dragged me by the arm and abused me
before them Ill. I have never suffered
euch shame. Release me, oh, my father;
I will not live with Him." Here she
again FRUSTRATED herself at the. Rajah's
feet. A dead silence ensued, broken
only by the girls sobs. Tawngcy looked
as though he wished the earth would
swollow him. but he said not word.
Suddenly the Rajah spoke again and
gave orders. so you and you" (namine
two or three elders among the specta-
tors) take away these two wicked ones,
who disobey the holy law. Strip them
of all their clothes, save the cloth only
to the woman, and shut them up togeth-
er in the great empty guest house.
In the morning I will hear them
again. Enough! I have spoken"
So the young couple were hus~
tied off and shut up in bare, empty
house, with but one garment betwet n
them. The night was very cold, and as
I pulled my thick wadded quilt over my
shoulders before going to sleep, I adj
mired the shrewd wisdom of the Rajah.
In the morning when their clothes were
handed into them and the door was
opened to conduct them before the chief
they quietly slipped away, hand in
hand, and departed peaceably to their
own abode.