St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-23
WOMAN MOST CRUEL
,Mereiless to Her Own Sex to
the Most Startling
Degree.
When 1t Comes to Inflieting
Tortures, No Man Can
Cope With Her.
gt Is in Revenge Her Cruelty
Shows Itself Most
Terrible.
Some Very Shocking Hlstor-
zeal "reminiscences
Called Out.

Spencer SAYS that among savage ma
lions the women are as perverSe as the
men, and if they do not work so much
evil it is because they are less able to do
so. This is not entirely true; dou btlesS
women among Savages are much more
inclined to cruelty than to pity, but,
generally speaking, woman even at the
very beginnings of human evolution is
less cruel than man.
woman and War.
4 Woman, even among savage nations,
is rarely a warrior, says the MoniSt.
in theAntilIes, the women watched over
the safety of the Islands whenever their
husbands went to war with the neigh
boring island: they were brave, strong,
courageous, nearly equaling the men in
their cleverneSS in handling weapons.
Among the ancient Brltons armies
were always commanded by women. In
Dahomey the elite of the army is com
posed Of troop of 5000 or 1000 anna
IONS, who are very terociouS, partlcu-
Iarly in the mutiaton of dead bodies;
women then become tigers, is popular
saving. Among the ancient Scots WOm
eli followed the army and cruelty mutt
lated the prisoners. Among the BOtO-
cudOs, when war breaks out among the
tribes, the men fight the men with
sticks, and the women fight the women
by scratching and by tearing the boto
Ques (cylinderS of wood from their ears
and lips. But these are all exceptional
cases.
Generally speaking, the savage
woman plays secondary part in war;
she acts as an auxiliary, picks up ar
rows, throws stones from distance and
carries the provisions, etc.
Revenge.
1t is above all in revenge that femi-
nine cruelty shows itself the most Ter
rible. Man is capable of destroying
whole families or nations to satisfy a
particular revenge but nothing equals
the ingenuity of woman in slowly tor
menting her victim, in gloating over his
sutferings and lengthening them out i'll
order that her enjoyment of vengeance
may indure as long us possible.
3 In Tasmania. when the black war
broke out between the English and the
aborigines, the TaSmanian women ter
ribly tortured the prisoners, in order to
aYenge their companions who had been
carried off by the English. We must
also attribute 10 the desire for ven
geanCe the tOrmenTs inflicted by the
women upon prisoners OF war among
the red Indians.
Elizabeth Of Russia. betrayed by her
lover, OBLIGED him 10 marry def0rmed
dwarf, and to pass his wedding night in
an ice palace. where the furniture and
bed were all OF ice. The next morning,
attended by her court. she went to pre-
sent the newly welded pair with a bou-
Quet. She found them, stretched out
upon their bed of ice, nearly frozen.
I she then banished her rival to Siberia,
first causing her ears and nose to be
cut off.
I A wealthy Russian prince, in love
with a very beautiful girl of fifteen.
took her to live with him for five years;
at the end of which time, wishing to
contract an alliance. he paid her sum
Of money in dover and obliged her to
marry peasant. The young girl made
no sign for len years, until the death of
her husband; but after the lapse of
that period, rising having taken place
among the peaSantTy against the mobiles,
she excited them and led body Of
peasants to the castle Of her ancient
lover, had him taken and dragged into
his iZba, harnessed him to the plOW
instead of the oxen, and for three days
ODIlSeQ MIN lnuS 10 WOlh, IdSHlHS MIN
with the whip each time that he fell to
the ground. At night she led HIM to
the Stable and made him lie down with
the oxen, compelling him to eat fodder
with the beasts and making merry over
his sorry plight. This amusement
lasted three days. at the end of which
time the man fell dead in one of the
Burrows he was blowing.
a Russian, an idle and worthless fell
How who had let his wife suffer hun
ger. proposed TO her that she should be
sold as a slave to the sultan. After
some hesitation she accepted and they
started off, but when they had gone
about half the way. the husband having
fallen asleep intoxicated. the idea came
into her mind to sell him for slave in
her place. She then tied him on horse,
started off again on the road and arriv-
ing at the place Of rendezvous, she de-
4ivered her husband to the merchant
and remained TO watch the Turk push
the half-aWakeGed man into the boat,