Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-01-16
DIVORCE IN ISLANDS
"s~D-ES" CHl-Y PASS yN riSETS
OF CHILDREN.
Wien Separation Of an Isarrote
Couple is '=evitable, Both the Hus.
band ard Wife Share Equal
iy the Property.

u you women want equal rights,
~ bette: 80 out to Luzon." The man
f:om the Philippines had been listen.
irS TO the militant suffragist for the
last hour sud half and had just got
in his word. up in the province of
Ecnguet there, where the little Igar-
rot"& live, they've got II down To a
tie Eoint. Remarkable people those
mountain savages
They've already settled q lot of
things our Socialist friends are trying
now to get the rest of us advanced
enc"gh to accept They're so progress
sive IN these things that they're clear
back at the beginning again. For in
stance. they've got George Meredith's
tcn-year trial marriage beat by a one
year experiment. It's very success
full. too. And divorce-that's the sim
plcst thing in the world with them
and quite fair to the woman, too.
1T doesn't happen very often, but
when IT does the community steps in
to SEE that there's fair play. The
bnknans, or chiefs. act as judges in
the matter; not to decide whether
they have right to. rart-that's en-
trely personal matter for them to
scttle-but to see that there's II fair
division of the children AMI the prop
erty There was divorce case on
while ] was up there. in n funny little
village Of wooden huts. pei Ichod up
higher in the mountains than ever the
pines care to climb.
Tine couple were separating on the
scor" Of incompatability-yes they're
progressive enough for that-and as
the land up so high is pretty arid IT
didn't take long to go into the prop
erty question. There were four chill.
dren. so that was all right, too
don't know what would happen If
thCr" were three or five I'm such n
case; perhaps they'd resort to Solo.
mon Judgment
AT any rate, the hitch came I'm the
question of the house. There was
only one OF 1t and naturally both
needed it. or course, you think the
man should have given way, but won.
ans equality is too absolute out there
to have any nonsensical notions about
chivalry.
well 1t ended quite peaccably. at
any rate. In their hOneymooning days
they had built the house together. SO
now they simply repeated the perform.
ancs with equal labor, hanging u 8 c.
ond little wooden hut with shaggy
roof over their perpendicular comotc
bed. Whether they were reunited by
this reminder OF their youth and early
love Is more than can say. though, OF
course. that's the proper sequel to the
tale.
THE women have the same indie.
pendent rights OF earning money or
food as the men and they go about It
In the same way. You can see them
any day gslng up the sweet pota.
t0"s That grow In little patches all
over 'he wonntaln ridges. or wading
wais d"'r in the mucky rice field
tf"t teri ace the slopes or climbing up
tic PATHS with loaded wicker cage
Oh their hacks like any man polista.
Sometimes II is father and some.
tineo mother who looks after the
house after the houseWork and the fat
naked babi' s--sometimes the lean
family dogs. II all depends on which
member OF the household is the tired
eSt--ihat one gets the easy work for
awhile. It's very pretty to see the
w." baby girl Is welcomed into a
family Her Icarrotc parents are quite
AZ dc GIFTED with her as II she were n
boy-,herc's no disadvantage to her in
her sex; that It. as far az her people
are concerned"