The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-07-08

times tires out the patience VI tuC
man, who then turns her away or
sells her to the person on whom she
has fixed her affections" !" If he has
not enough sense to see that she hates
him, she occasionally hints at it, not
after the fashion of a scolding wife,
but with her teeth.
The Abyssinians do not chide their
children if they find them writing
love letters or courting. Girls of 8
or Q years old and boys at proper
tionately youthful age are considered
manageable. Still it is deemed wise
for young man to make his inten-
tions known to the girls father. 1t
sometimes happens that young man
courts the girl without her knowing
anything about it, He and her father
arrange the affair between them.
Civil marriages take place first, and
if the couple decide they are fond OF
each other church marriage follows.
According to Westermarck, parents
are as careful to see that their sons
are provided with wives as that their
daughters are provided with hus-
bands. Among the Cingalese, if a
man reaches the age of IS or 20 and
is still unmarried, the father consid-
ers it his duty to provide him with a
wife. The father never stops to think
whether she will suit his son, and the
boy is generally satisfied. If he tires
of her or she no longer considers his
comforts, he simply repudiates her.
A Santai lad feels that I6 or II is
none too young to marry, and he
usually seeks girl of IS, while
Kandh boy narries several years
younger. Mohammedan people also
consider marriage duty for men and
women. An unmarried woman is
seldom found in the East. She would
rather marry poor man than remain
single. Among the Persians girls are
expected to marry before they are OF
age, and old bachelors are not to be
found. In Egypt it is considered in
poor taste for man of social position
to be without wife she is deemed
a necessary furnishing to his home.
The Mongols have the same feel
ing for bachelors. Their parents will
not have it otherwise, for marriage is
considered the most important episode
of life. It gives man dignity and a
woman social recognition. Parents
almost always arrange this affair with
out consulting their children, and
have no more patience with a bache-
lor son than with bachelor girl.
In Corea, according to the Rev.
John Ross, bachelor suffers great
humiliation. He says that the male
human being who is unmarried is
never called "a man, whatever his
age, but goes by the name of 'yatow,
name given by the Chinese to un-
manageable young girls, and the
man of 13 or ID has a perfect right
to strike or abuse the 'yatow' of 80,
who does not so much as open his
lips to complain. Celibacy is only
permitted to those who shave their
heads and live in seclusion." With
the Mongols marriage for the man is
no serious hardship.
Some bachelors have hard time to
get their wives, so the men in New
Guinea believe. This is because if
man marries a girl against her will
she "gives him lively time" If
she can do nothing worse she destroys
his lands, and her women friends rally
to her aid armed with poles. Then
he must pay for protection, and the
more the wife dislikes the husband
the more he must pay.
The same holds good for the Zulus,
and the number of wives a man may
have is limited by his riches.