Seward daily gateway., 1924-08-14
WOMEN SAY THAT
 HUSBANDS BORES0ME

some.
 Women scorned in cities shoot men
 Men spulned in the jung,es by women use the knife.
 Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, wife of the naturalist, just back from the Far East. has made these ob Servations after penetrating a sec ton on India's wes; coast, where an actual matliarchy exists. A community in which titles, money and property descent through the female line; where women have the advantage ot men to such an extent that they frequently discard a stupid husband ic: some one of his sex who promises to be rather more of an entertainer.
 The scorned ir.n ot the east IS as quick with the Made as the fur ious woman of the west is with tho bullet.
 Most of the crimes in this sec jion," says Mrs. Seton fare knife cases. A hnsta: {: Is frequently sup plahtci by anC thcr man. When a woman is tired she divorces her husband But she dccs attend -ro just one at T time. Jealousy. how ever, is apt to follow her, with se- were results.
 'There are few women criminals in 1ndia-one in a thousand, per- haps.
 ''The woman of this section of India rules her world without leav- ing her home. She does not go about in public She does not be- come involved in difficulties outside her home life, and over these she has absolute power
 Because she stays at home she does not become involved in any trouble that leads her to commit crime"
 For the past ten years Mrs. Se- ton has made a study of the wom- en of different countries. Though she has zestfully hunted and photo graphed big game with her hus- band Mrs. Seton has been more in- terested in the status of women in these places than in the financial and social rating of local lionesses and pantherettes. She never had any trouble deciding, as another author did, whether or not she would favor the lady or the tiger.
 'It was a great contrast to find that the woman of India, the woman behind the veil, was the head of the family in this west coast section. Here is communal system, the diff ferent units of a family living to- gether, woman having the upper hand.
 "When the daughter of family marries she stays in her own home, and her husband remains in his He keeps house with his own clan and doesn't become part of his wife's family, but visits her when she is willing"
 The intense interest of Mrs. Se- ton in women and their problems be- gan when the agitation for suffrage was at it's height in this country During the war Mrs. Seton followed the self-determination of English and American women, noting the apathy among the middle class of France, for which she cannot account, since the upper and lower ranks of French women did considerably more than their "bit," and did it we'll.
 "Clever women are always worth studying" said Mrs. Seton.
 Beautiful women are just as we'll worth watching. In India I saw many beauties; but whether or not they would be regarded as lovely in the western world I am not cer- tain.
 'Moon-face,' their term of en- dearment, describes their beauty. Their beauty is undeniably roundfac- ed, a type on the merits of which conn; isseurs dlSogree. They have wonderfully lustrous eyes and skin, but they are vely dark in both res pects-
 Among these beauties there is a ]. great aspiration for lighter skin"
 White garments, always decora- tive and comfortable fashion in coun- tries where the heat is intense, serve to enhance the rare charm of the women of India, Mrs. Seton says, as we'll as the curiously beau tiful jewels which they wear about wrist and throa.. Their life gen. erally is much duller and less dan gerous than that of the remote few in the modern matriarchy which Mrs. Seton was the first to penetrate.
 But is this easy divorcing of lonesome husbands and tho careless I knifing of fckle wives good thing. Is it step forward or 8 r misstep backward. Is Far East ern husband, living with his own folks, more tiresome than west ern one, right on the wife's prem. ises?
 We have sneaking suspicion that he is-that when the husbands o1 the matriarchy came to call they re gale their powerful wives with tale: of the good cooking-curry and chut