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IS 262.2
Story of an Emigrant.
have any number of wives, and may keep on taking new
wives as long as he lives, it may easily be understood what
a great number of widows there must be. There is an old
man, for example, who dies and leaves many widows of
different ages, some of them onlv ten or twelve years old, none
of whom arc allowed to marrv a second time. They are
deprived of all ornaments, and compelled to wear a very coarse,
plain dress, to live on the plainest food, and work hard for
the man who inherits the property of the deceased husband,
and who is generally his brother or his son. This is the
reason that rich families have a large number of women in all
ranks and conditions, from the mistress of the house, which
position is held by the husband’s mother, to the humblest
servant woman. The education of women is prohibited;
hence they are very much like children, playing with their
dolls, jewels and other.toys, and having no higher idea of
MISSION HOME AND SCHOOL.
life n general than what they have been taught in the
nursery. It is rather fortunate, therefore, that these lamentable
victims of prejudice live in ignorance, as long as the present
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