Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-22
Where The Wom Wear [ rousers


- UNIS.--Accordng to the Koran
the Mohammedbn has the RICH.
to four wives upon earth and,
when he goes to heaven, he viii
receive in addition 70 black-eyed hour
Is over beautiful and ever young. When
there. he win have children or not
according to his wish, and the on
spring win grow IN an hour to the
stature OF their parents. Mohammcd
himself ia said to have had about 20
wives while on earth. aud when he
died he left nine, each OF whom had
her own house not lar from the mosque
at Medina. Mohammed started out by
marrying q widow. Her namo was
Cadijnh, and II was her money which
gave him his FIRST boost into proml-
nence. lie was about twenty-five years
old at the time and was one OF tho
finest looking young heaux OF Arabia
Cadijah WAS forty. and, II IL alleged
that II was she who popped the quep.
tion. lie lived with her for TWENTY-FIVE
years, and, during that time, took no
Other wife. a month after she die %
however. he became hctrcthej to 4 girl
Of seven, and lie married her two ar
three years later This second VITO
was the beautiful Ayesha, whom h.
preferred, above all others, to the d0y
Of his death.
MOHANIMEDAN WOMEN.
These facts form the basis OF the
Mohammedens Idea OF marriage He
believes that the prophet had the right
TO more wives than his followers be-
cause he was favored OF God ami
there was 81 chance that he might gen
crate a race OF prophets to succeed
him, This chance failed, but never.
theless he stu sticks To the limit Of
only four wives; ana the Arab Judges
cf Tunisia and Algeria win not recog-
ni2e as legal amy more than that NUM-
Der
Indeed. IN Algeria, the French are
now trying to cut down the size Of the
haram, and they viii not allow such
oi the Arabs as become naturalized To-
have more than one legal helpmate.
heard of u young man IN Oran. the son
of sheik who thought that it would
be fine to be a French citizen. lie took
out his papers end shortly thereafter
wanted to marry. He had already one
wife. and the license was therefore re-
fused. Gpon this, he was Disguised.
and said he wanted to be pure Arab
once more
Down IN Flguig. on the edge of Mo-
rocco. | was told that Il Is the custom
for the Moor of that region TO marry
at eighteen or twenty years of age,
taking a wife OF thirteen or fourteen
About ten years later he adds another
young maiden nf the same age to his
household. When he gets 10 be forty
he takes a third. and at fifty Il fourth.
sn that hc has always one young wife
10 walt upon him throughout HIS earth
~ career AZ the new wives come on.
hn old ans q
and act as their servants.
PLURAL MARRIAGE DYING OFT.
At the present time, owing to tho
advancement of modern civilization
these plural marriages are steadily de-
creasiug IN number This IS the rule
in all Mohnmmedan cities. Here i'm
Iunis most OF the natives now have
but one wife; and such is the case in
all the cities of Algeria. The cost OF
livlnE is steadily increasing ana the
women demand more and more. They
arc pattcrning after the French ladies in
their tastes, and il is only the rich who
can Keep NJ more than one household
Moreover. where several wives are
housed together under the same roof
ana I'm the same quarters. there is sure
to be discord and il means both peace
and economy to have only one, The
Arab women of the better classes are
dead load on their husbands. for they
are seldom more than children IN char
aoter. They have no education -
speak Of and they must have servants