The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-06


ried." And his friend laughed "a
little and said. "why. who do you
want TO marry" ilu answered,
"Oh. | don't Know. Lcra take
walk and / viii find the girl"
First Ku and his pal went down
TO the river and took bath greascd
thrir bodies heavily with oil md
butter. nut on their ivory and cio.
phant hair and Firaffo-tail brace
lets and started out toward q GER
tain village. Ku adrnitly Eulding Tho
stroll ucforc long they mot Aguin.
tho special young !rGy lricnd Of Tho
marrying young Wuu.
"uh whore are you r3ing'' 7h'
asked.
"oh. we are iuqt ou, tor "a littls
STROLL answered ku.
But where are YOU goinE,-- hruln
peTsigjently inquired,
Then Ku said very oaruoatiy. "i
am looking Tor q Elrl 10 marry
OF course sho appeared very much
surprised. why whom do you
wish TO marrv2" rho asked, poruHpa
with tropidatiou ana palpltntns
heart. Tor ku's hot ego was upon
her.
- wish 10 marry Aguln," hc
answered with great fraukncs7 but
with inward fear and trembling
II is all so very sudden TO hGulh |
even II she docs live over IN Central |
Africa, for that iS whore oil this
happens. And this liz Just The way
10 happens. aOCordmg TO those who
have made "a study uf the social
customs Of the ShuilH peoples.
but this IN not all For two years
tho young people must walt, even
70
enta are willing. II .ecomcH neCes-
sary for hts eye to remain hot for
"a long. long time
In this particular incident Agula,
who Is n fine muscular girl Just
about as strong as l[u, is much
pleased But they do not embrace,
even though the warm eyes of hor
lover can discern her acceptance,
No, she runs and tells her chums.
who lives next door, first inviting
the young men to ross themselves on
tho veranda.
Then they race down 10 tho river,
batho and grease their 1.-THE young
bodies. put on all the flnery that
they have or can borrow for the
occasion, and return to the porch
TO sit around and talk for a while,
When tho giTla father comes home
he must he asked. nnd IL he gives his
consent II viii cost ku with hls
many many presents 70 all his
friends and the Rirrs friends.
ku. in Central Africa. learns some
thing OF the hlgh cost of Toying Ten
cows In the legal and maximum
charge that the father may make
II he has daughter that Is not so
attractive ne may roduce the num-
ber OF cows.
There is this difference. however.
between Shulls young folks and the
hot-eyed youth OF Anglo Saxon com
Jnunities; no matter how much in
love 'they may he there are still two
years ahead of them. The custom
and the law are ineNorablc. Per
hans this accounts rsr the fact that
! there are few divorces there. Or
does ~
Regular divorce laws exist II ls
generally n matter of taking back n
bad bargain. The man has tho
right TO divorce the woman, but she
does not have the right to leave him
except on reason relating\to finance
r. The husband must be n capable
young fellow who looks after his
cow-credit and keeps the INSTALL
ments paid up, II he does not, and
his wife decides she wants to leave
him and go back to dad 10 yet n
good meal or dodge the bin collec-
tor, then her father must return the
ten cows and all tho nraAnniA
Mayor william i. Broening, of
baltimore, may not have studied
m 5hulla law, but he feels that there
is a weakness right along this limo
I'm our own social customs.
The Mayor naid this the other
day; The annual Srup OF matri.
monial wrecks is increasing so rap
sdly that something ought to be done.
what Is needed is 10 Sive the chill
drdn an opportunity ~ discuss and
analyze their difficulties intelli
gently
And according to his plans the
best way to get at the whole matter
would be bS ''uHtrimuuini vinssru'
In the public schools. "Mntrimou,
is about the only subject excluded
from the average academic educa
tion." he declared. Tho first les
son 10 learn Is to keep out OF ex
traYaganco and he willing TO fulnl
the dutiek Of matrimony on tifty
fifty basis.
Most young people who marry hav
not the slightest ConCeptlon of thei
duties" continued the Mayor,
Apparently most of them ar
worse off In this respect than tn
young men and women In the Cen
tral African Shulla tribe. Fo
there 1t Is made a compulsory thin
for the parents, and particularly IN
father to train up his boy and giI
TO know what is expected OF theT
after they are married
CLASSES at home. they don't shit
the thing over on to the tribe, N,
sir. it's the parents Job,
Mrs. Edna L. Johnson. the well
known welfare worker, has made
study OF the complex forces In Amer
lean social life. she believes tha
We viii come pcurc,- solving tn
problem II wc insist that tho ma
know something of tho duties of IN
wife, and that he tearu about IA
housework by doing some OF Il; IN
same as we cNpeCt the wife 20 ltno
something OF business oven In hC
regulation OF the nome,
And the reasoning sounds inter
esting: The American "Ku" MAJ
ries girl who has been a stenogrG
pher or "A clerk or "a school teaCht
or a business woman, All very wei
When she goes home with him h
also expects her to know how
sweep and iron ana Sdust and coo
ana take care Of the babies whe