The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-25
THEY BELIEVE IN MARRYING
Bachelors Do Not Count for Much
Among Savaues,

EHh.-= = HiIiottS SaSdSSSs
Chicago Chronicle: Savage man is,
filnost everywhere, a marrying man.
often he is Il much married man. He
sbhors the single state. Old maids and
CID bachelors are rare in all savage
md b~arbarous communities. The rule
Is 10 marry early and sometimes also
to marry often. Here is one point Of
difference and a notable one between
tnciviliZed and civilized societies. In
the second volume of his History of
European Morals Mr.. Leeky points
At rhatssin no highly civilized society
Is marriage general on the first de-
veiopments of the passions," and that
the continued tendency of increasing
nowledge to reader such marriages
lore rare" The opposite of this gen
frii rule, which is characteristic OF
aost civilized peoples, finds expression
In cases where children are pledged in
marriage even before they are born:
Rmong the Talamunca Indians, where
"a hTile is generally from 10 to Ia
Years old among certain other Cen
trail American tribes, where the par
ents try to get a wife for their son
iNhen he is 9 to 10 years old" among
he Ciuanas. where. as Azara says, the
girls VINO marry latest marry at the
&c of 81" among most of the Austral-
tn tribes, where nearly all the girls
tre beirothed at an extremely early
sge:" among the Santals, where a lad
f~lariies AS Il rule about the age Of
) o: IL, and q girl at that of l5;" and
nofg the kandhS, where "a boy mar
les when he reaches his 10th or 18th
year, his wife being usually about 4
years older"
So strong is the sentiment in favor
Of marriage among civilized races tina
u person who does not marry is looked
upon almost as an unnatural being. or
n 4 ~ >, fo tr d. ,S,clnsnal I B., - - .--
matter of universal belief in Fiji that
Ne who died without having been mar
ried was stopped on the o to para
disc by the god 'Nangganangga and
Smashed to atoms" The Santals re-
gard the obstinate bachelor as little
better than g thief, and not at all bet
ter than u witch. and both sexes treat
him with Supreme. contempt. In kaffir
kraals u bachelor has no voice. In
Tlascaia a man of full age who re-
fused to marry had his hair cut off for
shame" In Korea, on the authority of
Rev. John Ross, the male human be-
ing who is unmarried is never called
II man whatever his age. but goes
by the name OF 'yatow,' a name given
by the Chinese to uHn~larriageable
young girls, and a nan of IS or ia has
4 perfect right to strike, abuse and or
der about the 'yatow' of 80, who dare
not so much as open his lips to COM
plain"
Modern Hindoos honor marriage SO
highly that no bachelor is ever consult
ed on any important affair, and the
man who cannot be induced to marry
is looked upon as beyond the pale of
nature"
In Japan. as in China, celibacy is
both eschewed and tabooed, and in the
latter country especially it is all but
impossible to avoid marriage be you
robust or infirm, we'll sormed or de-
formed" Indeed, If a Chinese be sick
with a disease which is practically in
durable his parents Will by 10 means
suffer him to die until they have pro-
cured him a wife. May. so i~ndispens-
able is marriage considered among this
people," observes Dr.. Westernarck
that ever the dead are married"
Thus the spirits of all males who die
in infancy or in boyhood are In due
line married to the spirits of females