. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. rs as a wife withoutgiving birth to a son, the husband is authorized by law andreligion to take a second spouse; and in nearly all such casesthe lot of the first wife is a hard one. Rev. W. J. Wilkins saysthat a servant in his employ married a second wife and in-sisted that the first should not only support herself but con-tribute the bulk of her wages for the support of wife No. older wife is tantalized by the thought that she her
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. rs as a wife withoutgiving birth to a son, the husband is authorized by law andreligion to take a second spouse; and in nearly all such casesthe lot of the first wife is a hard one. Rev. W. J. Wilkins saysthat a servant in his employ married a second wife and in-sisted that the first should not only support herself but con-tribute the bulk of her wages for the support of wife No. older wife is tantalized by the thought that she herselfwas selected by the parents of her husband, while the new wifeis probably his own choice; and another cause of jealousy isfound in the new wifes youth. For no matter how old the manhimself may be — forty, fifty or sixty — his bride is always agirl of twelve or thereabouts — and for the very simple reasonthat practically no girls remain single longer, and widows arenever allowed to remarry. A story was told me in Bombayof a Hindu in his fifties who was seeking a new wife and sent anagent to his native village and caste with power to THE TAJ MAHAL FBOM THE ENTRANCE GATE The most beautiful building on earth with a story no less beautiful than the building itself
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