The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-14

| torture of women. Among the Kaflrs,
relates Herbert Spencer, besides her
domestic duties the woman has to per.
form all the hard work; she is her hus.
bands OK, a Kaf1r remarked to
traveller; she had been bought, he
argued, and must therefore labor.
chieftain's Wife Complete Slave.
! Prof. Ward observes that the com.
plete slavery of woman to man is
shown by the account of a Mahogany
chief who had scarcely seated himself
| at his door when his wife came out.
| crawling on her hands and knees till
!, she came to him, and then licked his
feet. All the women in the town sa-
luted their husbands in the same man
ner. Almost everywhere in Africa, re-
ports Letourneau, woman is the prop
erty of her husband, who has the right
| to use her as a beast of burden, and
| almost always makes her work as he
does his oxen.
| In certain Himalayan regions the
women are a veritable merchandise
which is bought and sold. At the time
| of Fraser's visit woman among the
peasants cost from five to six dollars,
a sum, (which it was pleasant to re-
ceive but painful to expend.'
The daughters also are freely sold,
| and the brothers of each family bought
a common wife whom they rented
without hesitation to strangers. In
New Zealand, according to Moerenhaut
and Ward, father or brother, in CIV
ing his daughter or his sister to her
future husband, would say: eff you
are not satisfied with her. sell her,
kill her, eat her; you are absolute
master of her.
Women of Tahiti Half Starved.
| Almost at the origin of society,
writes Letourneau woman was sub
| jugated by her companion; we have
| seen her become in succession beast
Oh burden, slave, minor, subject, held
aloof from a free, active life, often
maltreated, oppressed, punished with
| fury for acts that her male owner
would commit with impunity before
her eyes.
In the Soudan, where the removal of
clothes is sign of obeisance, women
may only come unclothed into the
| presence of the sultan of Melli, and
even the sultan's daughters must con-
| form to this custom. At the court of
| Uganda stark naked, full grown wom-
en- are the Wallets. Indeed throughout
the primitive world women are beasts
of burden, servants, slaves.
| Not only the wife of the negro, the
Hindu, and the Keighis, but also the
wife of the present slav of the Balkan
peninsula and of Russia, is the mis-
used slave of her husband, and as the
result of the effort to escape labor, we
| see the unwholesome interchange of
wife and child labor in the factories
which would make greater gains from
| the laborer at the expense of wife and
| child. @
| Indeed, in it's origin the family is
held to have been simply an institu-
ton for the more complete subjugation
and enslavement of women and chill
| dren, for the subversion of natures
method in which the mother is the
| queen, dictates who shall be father
and guards her offspring by the in
stinct of maternal affection planted in
her for that purpose"
Japanese Widows BIacken Teeth.
In India the subjection of women
has had its headquarters. The suffice
or the burning of widows on the
funeral .pyres of their husbands is not
yet wholly extinct, although forbidden
by law; and the remarriage of widows
is only beginning to be permitted. The
widow at best leads an isolated ex-
istence, cut off from her natural asso-
ciates, condemned to base foods and a
life of practical servitude.
| In Japan the widow must blacken
her teeth and shave her eyebrows.
| Throughout the orient women are
taught to address their husbands as
master or lord, whereas the men
| speak to their wives as slaves and
servants. The oriental proverbs de.
clare that woman is like slipper,
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