The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1906-02-09
gflfrt Misrellany.
Few Bachelors Found Among
Savages.

In tn s.. days OF bachelor men and
bachelor esirls We often imagine that
Is custom recognized IN all
Countries This is largely brca use it
g condition made poss ble b., West
IN civil "a ion AS regards savage
and baltatuus races, kachtIors and
bachelor girls are unknown, writes
Della Austrian in the Cnicago 7rt.
bune, and arl y everyone strives to
yet married as soon AS ne or she ls
able. THIS is especially true with
people ot small cutur.
Among Australian natives every
man is expected to, and wishes to
marry; every girl must marry, wheth-
er she will or not Parents see that
their daughters do not exercise their
own judgment in these matt ers, by be-
trothing them when they are young,
often before they are year old. 1t
would be considered wonderfully
strange if girl reached the age of II
and was still unmarried. Girls are
usually married when or 10; boys
when - or IA THIS not is because
romance is well known to the Austral-
ians; they are practical.
The parents feel that a girl, is only
worth the toll she gives, and young
men see the wisdom of their philoso-
phy. In wet weather she attends to
all the outside work, while her lord
and master is snugly seated before
the fire. If there is a scarcity Of food.
she has to endure the pangs OF hunger,
often perhaps in addition to ill treat
ment and abuses. Much as many a
girl breads to be given away she does
not refuse. A girl who breaks an en-
gagement may be killed, and she takes
it for granted that she will be whip
ped and sp ared before she is married
long.
"The man." says the Rev, II. G. A.
Meyer, "regarding them more as
slaves than in any other light, en-
ploys them in every possible way to
his own advantage" They are nee
essary commodity, available as long
as useful, but to be thrown aside after
they serve their purpose. These Won
derful masters have no trouble in free
ing themselves of their wives; they
can murder if they dc not prefer to
use gentler methods. g.
The Hottentots and Bushmen also
believe women are a necessary evil,
and the younger they break their
wives in the better. They feel that
ten years is none too young, for girls
of these years are more pliable and
more easily moulded. IT must be
granted that the Hottcntots use mild
er methods than do the Australians.
They do not kill the girls who refuse
to marry. The Hottentot often goes
to the hut of the girl and makes her a
cup of coffee, then hands it to her
without adding a word. Ifshe drinks
half of it he knows her answer is Eyes
If she refuses to touch the coffee be
feels his suit is hopeless, but he is no,
grieved; be visits a neig ghbering hun
and tries his luck again..
The Kaffirs believe that woman
is necessary appendage to house
hold; the women care Tor their huts
and do all the housework, while the
men watch tLe CATTLE. they do no,
always marry as young as they Like,
rnd yet the youngest and most attrac
tive girls often go to the ugly, old
men with plenty of money. A man is
not worried because he cannot win
the favor of the girl he wants. Her
likes and dislikes count for little,
The Ashantees, another African
tribe, believe that men and women
must marry, and the earlier the better.
The father does not always force his
daughter to marry certain man, but
he tran~acts the business without con.
sultirg Ter. Girls and boys are often