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Show SUFFRAGE AND HEAD HUNTNG MIX UP Women of Dutch East In-diet In-diet Drive for Vote ! - ! AMSTERDAM, Jan. 31 Women's suffrage movements have reached the Hutch EASt Indies, the colonies whose history and ancient savagery were chiefly known to credulous Americans through the ngency of circus sideshows, side-shows, wherein the "Wild Man of Itorneo" and "The Terrible Dyaks. Ferocious Head Hunting Cannibals." drew many dimes while the crowds waited for the "nig tent" to open. Head hunting and kindred savage pstimes still continue to some extent w Ithln the Jungles of these I Mitch Islands, but. according to the lutch press, most of the nstives are ra prill y adopting modern theories. In Java the upper class native women, under leadership of Haden Adjeng Kartinl. a womsn of high birth, are reported to be making rapid strides towsrd emancipation, although the Mohammedan custom of polygamy still prevails. In all the "Kartini schools' tl.e girls of the upper classes ara being taught occidental theories of equality with the men. Dutch correspondents cor-respondents say the progress of the movement ia necessarily slow, but appear to be certain of ultimate Stirrers. |