The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-25
THE UTILITY Of POLYGAMY.
If ROY LOVE TWO WoMEN roU MARRY
BOTH.

BO1H.
Thnt - the way NJ the Followers 81 Mo-
hsusned, whIr Here Man Kin- HIm-rIr
sf ~ JnileG-Au Unpr-iudiced Inquirrr
Among Missionary NnbokoT'a Audience.
Emin L. NabokofT. Muhammad webb's rival
as the apostle Of Moham mechanism 10 America,
preached no Christmas sermon In his Union
square mosque yesterday morning. but Mt ] l
o'clock. when tho church bells all over the city
were inviting people to worship. Mr. NahokoT.
wearing red fez. appeared at a window ot
tho building at 9 Union square ami shouted
the Mohammedan call to prayer. People in
the park heard the slow information OF the call
and quit reading their Sunday papers. Stroll
ers in the street and people In the horse cars
twisted their necks to see what was up
A small crowd gathered on the side
walk. and when. n few minutes later, Mr. M
bokofT read the first prdser in the mosque
there were about thirty people present. Mr.
Nubokoff had hardly opened his subject. Tho
Women OF ISLAM" when happy-iaced woman
with eyeglasses. and wearing long black
half-mllitnry cape lined with rcd. entered the
hall and sat down next to the reporter.
Mr.. Nabokofr said It had been charged that
the Mohammedans did not give their women
souls. TO disprove this he read q section from
the Koran about Adam and Eve. in which they
spoke about their souls. The reporter
was listening intently when the happy
faced woman next to him looked at
him as school teacher does at
scholar she Is teaching tho A d C's and re-
marked: lie says many good things. but he
contrndicts himself Listen" Mr.. Nabokoff
road another passage. and the woman volun-
teered: You see that man over there near the
WALTZ He was hero last sunday. and wanted
to discuss a matter with Mr.. Nabokoff. And
ha har fo.dnv aha nddad
brlskly. Mr. Nabokor read q third passage.
and said: "A woman has better soul and q
bigger soul than a man." There. put that
down." iuteriected the happy:faced woman,
who thereafter was prolific In her advice aud
Mr. Na6okoT said there was not the slightest
doubt tnat polygamy Vas IT, rex, e5
itvaried in intensity, according to tho state OF
civilization. There was not 80 much polygamy
way the practice OF polygamy had come down
from sOlomOn who had I'VE or six S hSnsred
the Kindly interpretcr. Put il down" she
added authortatively. Mr.. Nabokoff said polyg-
amy was dying out with the progress Oh ciVii;
slavery had existed in this country.
Mohammed. the speaker said, was confronted
woman population. TIo could have .chucked"
tho young into the river as they do In siam or
Kept them IN their homes and educated them
and made them graceful and attractive. and
teen as we do in this Christian sountry or he
could have allowed the men. as he did TO take
three or four wives aceording to their me means
that a man could not love three or four women
e eSSdlIS Sformsd can" MIR. SaboRo read e
from q newspaper clipping about man who
that because he could not decide on ono AMI
could not marry both he was going to drown
~ N n y N a "a
iyn and the other in Park avenue, That
showed that 0nH man could reSN{ oys
ferrsd, was that the man could have saved
a Mohammedan. Then Mr.: Nabokofr, told OF
another man who because Of his twin love for
tive women had got himself into The the I0mGs
and sweetmeats. At this the women in the
audience laughed. Still. Mr.; Nahokofr said.
claimed the interpreter triumphantly. put
that down; you see he does condemn polyG-
One trouble with the Mohammedan women.
Mr.. Naboko of said. was that as they had no men
s sG as Is asT SS adn st
corsets, they didn't haze headaches a. a, In the
to I 60 to-. They spent much time in shopping
and went about tho shops lust as they do In
this country, npsetting everything, and say
Then they had Turkish baths, and at night
they listened to pEo,essi9Hn,al st2ry tellers' as
At the conclusion OF Mr.. NabokoTs address,
the reporter asked the kindly interpreter at
his side whether sho was a Mohammedan.
Il don't believe in anything: am an Ameri-
can" sho replied. But | am investigating.
! have u conscience. aud | hope have n soul.
] go to all the churches, to the Catholic TO the
Hebrew. and the Methodist. and II you want to
hear something YOU want to 20 TO q social
SCIENCE meeting tonight where they are going
to talk evolution"
Just here the man who the interpreter had
said. was going to make row stood up and
asked: Can ! say anythlng?' No. sir"
replied Mr.. Nabok of. hurrying down from The
platform. But II you will allow me to talk
=" - No, sir. this Is not q debating society"
II looked as though there would be some
unpleasantness. and Mr.. j. \. Liant editor and
publisher Of the Mossm l'orH, said; IN in
shouted the ,repoErtsr's in,erprete,T rising
was not q reply. The Interpreter kent her
place. and said she voted as she iid-she
had carried the question-bocause she
wanted the man stopped. Several men
gathered around Mr.. NRbokoff and tho man
who wanted to speak, andlthe Happy faced in
qulror into religious truth shook her white
gloyed hands at the persistent director and
told him that ne couldn't talk and was there
TO make trouble. and must go somewhere else
TO discuss his own ideas and that II he wanted
to talk he must 60 hire n hall ~ his own and
talk somewhere else: and nil this so rapidly
that the director had no chance and was glad
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