El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

And do they marry. again ?"
NO. For one thing they could get no
body to marry. A man viii say of the
girl, We'll, she could not live happily with
her husband. so she could not live happily
with me- a girl viii also say that Of a
man who could not live well with his
first wife"
For one thing, there is not so much
reason for divorce as here You see
everybody is married, every person.
There are no unmarried men or unmarried
women for the married people who are
disconnected with their own husbands or
wives to 90 around with When a man
thinks he would like TO have the wife of
another man for his own wife 1t is soon
found out by the husband, and then the
husband shoots both of them. That is
understood.
You see" added Dalip Singh, as if
presenting the universal solution. ut isl
entirely different 1t is not possible for
the wife to call up man on the telephone
and say. III meet you at the theatre p u
How do they manage to have things
go peacefully with more than one wife in
the house?' asked the reporter.
oh that is so very rare that it hardly
needs to be considered at ALL" said Mr.
Gin. You see the poor men cannot af-
ford more than one wife and the well to
do men do not want more than one. Also
it is necessary that the first wife should
agree that there should be a second wife.
In the very rare cases where there is a
second wife it is because the first wife
has borne no heir and it is often she
rather than the man Of the house who
decides that there must be a second wife.
She selects the wife for him, usually from
the women of her own family, her sister
or cousin. This is the case where the
man has a large estate which they desire
to keep in the family Then when the
new wife comes and bears children the
first wife is frequently given the care Of
the children while the second wife has
household duties to perform. The two
women live in harmony. because the new
conner is bound to give respect and
obedience to the first wife. The husband
MIDST also give his respect and obedience
in household affairs to the first wife and
he must share his income with her. You
see. after all, the only difference between
there and here is that in my country the
wives know when their husbands take a
second wife while in this country the
wives do not know.
I'VE haven't got suffrage in our coun-
try. but in many ways there are more
rights for women than there are here. In
the household the woman is the absolute
ruler and her husband obeys her entirely
I'm household matters
what happens if he does not obey?" !
''Weu. it would not be happy home
The wife also has -alf of all the hus-'
bands income. If he is a poor man he.
divides all his money with her. If he isl
rich man he puts the money in the bank
and tells her what is there Our word for
wife means half
Since he started ont to be a self-support-
ing student Dalip Singh has found library
work and lecturing to be reliable and
agreeable sources from which he may de-
rive an income. During a walk across
the Columbia campus he confded to the.
interviewer his earnest wish to be known
as a peaceful person not interested in +
politics.
The interviewer promised But why -
he asked
Because of the detectives" said Dalip
Singh You must know that wherever
there are natives of India in foreign coun-|
tries there also are the detectives of the.
British government. watching always
watching to see if there is anything ohat