The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-03
T|BURON AHAVEN
FOR THE WOMAN
Who SEEKSRULE

For all abused, browbeaten, king
peeked wives there is hope.
No longer need any woman patient
ly submit to a growing husband who
can't understand why a woman can't
serve sirloin on q 50 allowance.
No longer need any woman resort
TO the divorce court because her hus-
band objects to her wasting water
for brushing her teeth.
No longer need a woman timidly ex'
plain why she sauandefed az on a
pair OF kid boots.
An island, a beautiful carefree H.
land, has been discovered where wom-
en- rule the roost. Down in the Gulf
OF California. four miles from the
Mexican mainland. on the Isle Of IT,
huron, exists the real emAneipated
woman. There the women rule the
men. There the men do all the work.
There q husband Il only q little less
than q higher form Of house servant.
And all dissatisfied wives need 10 do
10 to take q special to California, row
over to Tiburon. and sit for q few
weeks at the feet Of the islands fair
sex and find out Just how they do
II.
Just Disclosed.
This information OF such moment
70 women all over the world IL dis
closed In q dispatch just received by
Andrea @. Garcia, consul general OF
Mexico, and an expedition 10 TO set out
immediately &c. Investigate the island
both because Of Its extraordinary Gus
A. AofpFaI
sources.
So Tar information IL distressingly
msAgsr. All that II known u that the
women have managed to subJugAte
the men. Just how they do IL IL as
yet withheld from eager womAnkind'
II IL known. however. that every
young swain who aspires for lady's
hand must consult her mother and not
her father II the aspirant IL found
pleasing In the sight Of the dansel,
he IL Immediately enrolled a. her
slave, and must serve one years no.
vitiate as such before he can be ac-
ceptsd a. husband. 4 really popular
young woman OF the community usu-
ally has any number of gallants on
her slave list. Their duty 1t Is to
provide her food, wait upon her, and
do her slightest bidding. Ehe finally
sets the seal OF her approval on the
young man who has proven himself
the best provider.
Naturally all prospective husbands
must practice the art OF keeping
sweet-tempered throughout all trials
or they are promptly canned from the
list OF eliEibles.
The men are said to be very brave.
They kill sharks single handed and
with nothing but q long bladed knife
as q weapon. One OF the first com
mands an enrolled slave has Is to
toddlo down to the gulf and get a
nice, tender little shark for hsi lady.
Ills bravery Is proved II he comes
back with the animal. II not, his
name 10 crossed from the list. II, in
life, he had been q likely youth the
maiden signs q little and abhors
shark meat for at least a week. After
which things go on as before.
After marriage the young mans
lot lie little better than before, and
the very man who - Oravest when
facing the teeth OF the shark Quoils
when he returns and faces his wife.
So far Il appears that the popula-
tion is preponderantly feminine and
scientists are already looking upon
Tiburon as an example of what may
prevail hnEOuBhONN ENAOpo oAN ehh'
country IL women outnumber men At
the end OF the war.
On Tiburon several women share
one husband, the FIRST wife being,
however, the most important and the
supernumerary wives rather informal
affairs, usually the widowed sisters Of
the chief wife.
They are known as Seri Indians,
and are not. as was at FIRST supposed,
cannibalistic in habit The women
do not even eat their own husbands.
II a suitor as much as glances at an
other maiden during his probationary
period. he Is Immediately blacklisted.
N. B.-Latest dispatch says Seri In
dams will not permit white persons
| to land on island.
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