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
Among Savaues,

Among SaVages.
Chicago Chronicle: Savage man is,
utmost everywhere. a marrying man.
pftcn he is Il much married man. He
sbhors the single state. Old maids and
old bachelors are rare in all savage
md ~barbarous communities. The rule
IS to marry early ana sometimes also
10 marry often. Here is one point of
difference and Il notable one between
ncirilized and civilized societies. In
me second volume of his History of
,ur2pe2n Morals" Mr.. Leeky points
at that in no highly civilized society
IL marrI2Se general on. the first de-
E~e!ornents Of he passions" and that
the continued tendency of increasing
Ho"iedSe to render such marriages
2ore rare. The opposite of this gen.
raj rule. which Is characteristic of
nost civilized peoples. finds expression
n cases whe"e children are pledged in
marriage even before they are born;
among the Talamanca Indians, where
"a bride is generally from 10 to IA
years Old among certain other Cen
tr"l American tribes. where the par
ents try to get a wife for their son
J"nen he is 9 TO 10 years DID," among
he uanas, where. as Azara says, the
girls who marry latest marry at the
sc CT o. among most of the Austral-
an tribes, where nearly all the girls
i"e betrothed at an extremely early
&c, aiiioiiS llle odIltdlS. Wnere q lad
l~l&rlieS "as a rule about the age of
5 o" II, and a girl at that of 49," and
nong the kandhs. where "a boy mar
lies when he reaches his 10th or 18th
..'~2", his wife being usually about 4
years older"
Sc strong is the sentiment in favor
Of marriage among civilized races thai
Il person h does not marry Is looked
upon almost as an unnatural being, or
at any rate is disdained. 1t is or was q
matter of universal belief in Fiji that
Ne who died without having been mar
ried was stopped on the road to para
disc by the god "Nangganangga and
smashed to atoms" The Santals re-
gard the obstinate bachelor as little
better than a thief. and not at all bet
Ter than a witch, and 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, on 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,' a name given
by the Chinese to unmarriageable
young girls, and a man of 13 or IA has
Il 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 or 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, well formed 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%ndispens-
able is marriage considered among his
people," observes Dr.. Westermarck,
that even the dead are married."
Thus the spirits of all males who die
in infancy or In boyhood are in due
'ime married to the spirits of females