The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-03-04
vHEY BELIEVE IN MARRYING
Bachelors DO Not Count for Muck
Amond SayaoeS,

Chicago Chronicle: Savage man is,
almost everywhere, a marrying man.
rften he is a much married man. He
sbhors the single state. Old maids and
cid bachelors are rare in all savage
md ~barbarous communities. The rule
IS to marry early and sometimes also
10 marry often. Here is one point OF
difference and a notable one between
)ncivtliZsd and civilized societies.. In
ne second volume of his History Of
}~aropean Morals Mr., Leeky points
1t mat in no highly civilized society
s marriage general on the first de-
yclopments of the passions" and that
the continued tendency of increasing
noNlelge to render such marriages
lore rare The opposite of this gen
raj rule, which is characteristic OF
losl civilized peoples, finds expression
1 cases Whe"e children are pledged in
marriage even before they are born;
among the Talamanca Indians. where
y bride is generally from 10 to IA
years old among certain other Cen
raj American tribes, where the par
ents TRY 10 get 4 Wife for their son
'hen he is 9 TO 10 wears DID, among
he Guanas. where. as AZara says, the
Girls who marry latest marry at the
&c Of g." among most of the Austral-
llu triheS. whore nearly all the girls
ire betrothed at an extremely early
|Sge:" among the Santals, where a lad
EaIries AS a rule about the age of
) o: II, and q girl at that of TO-" and
Among the kandhs, where II boy mar
les when he reaches his 10th or 18th
Year, his wife being usually about 4
!e.rs older"
SO strong is the sentiment in favor
Of marriage among civilized races that
Il person who does not marry is looked
upon almost as an unnatural being, or
at any rate is %disdained. 1t is or was a
| ,,ntJnn ff ,,ri,varcal ),,li,p =, MA; +iaA
!e Who died without having been mar
vied was stopped on the Dad 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 tina a witch, n both sexes treat
him with supreme contempt. In kaffir
kraals a bachelor has no voice. In
Tlascala a man of full age who re-
fused to marry had his hair cut off for
shame" In Korea. or the authority of
Rev. John Ross, the male human be-
ing who is unmarried is never called
a man. whatever his age. but goes
by the name Of 'yatow,' d name given
by The Chinese to unlnarriageable
young girls, and a man of 10 or IA has
a 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 H1ndoOS 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 infrm, well sormed or de-
formed" Indeed, If a Chinese be sick
with a disease which is practically in
durable his parents will by no means
suffer him to die until they have pro-
cured him a wife. May, so i]ndisDens-
able is marriage considered among this
people," observes Dr.. Westermarck
that even the dead are married.
Thus the spirits of all males who die
in infancy or in boyhood are II due
line married to the spirits Of females.