Show BY FORCE Indians of Tierra del Fuego Take Advantage of Their Strength Dr Frederick A Cook tells of a little known race of aborigines in an article in the Century Magazine for March on The Giant Indians of Tierra del Fu Pu Fuego ego whom he visited on the Belgian Antarctic expedition Of their marriage customs he Marriage like almost everything Ona OnaIs Is not fixed by established rules It is arranged and rearranged from time to time ie ta suit tOns convenience af of the eon con contracting trading parties Women Woman generally have very little to say bout ft It The bar bargain bargain gain is made almost solely by the men and physical force Is the l b bend nd of union For Far ag ages s the strongest bucks have been accustomed to steal women front from neighboring tribes arid and from frem the neighboring clans of their own tribe The Ones Onas being by bi far the most pow powerful powerful erful Indians have thus been able to capture and retain a liberal supply of wives A missionary who has been in inconstant Inconstant constant contact with these Indians for thirty years has given it as his opinion opinIon ion that a plurality of wives is entirely satisfactory to their peculiar and habits of life The rho relation to one another of the women who possess but one husband in common in the family Wigwam is La of novel interest Aa As a rule they are ne us nemore more jealous then than are the children in ina ina a home henna circle The principal reason of this is that the wives are often sisters A young man takes by force by mutual agreement or by bar barter barfor for ter the oldest daughter aughter of a family If he proves prove himself a a good hunter and a kind husband the wife persuades h he p sister to Join the wigwam and share her bar husbands affections Frequently when a girl is left an orphan she is taken into a family and trained to be become become come the supplementary wife of her benefactor in after years In the hut each wife has her own position ties tion always resting in exactly the same came spot with an all of hor belongings about her The wealth of the is riot not common to all of the occupants Each woman has her own basket of meat fragments or shell fish her own bag with Implements needles sinews arid and bi bits s of fur and each wife has her own aBen of children work of f the man is strictly limit limited ed Cd to the chase He carries his bow arId and quiver of arrows arrow and his eye is ever on the horizon for game but he seldom stoops to anything like manual labor fir riot not connected with the fi ac actual of the Hie chase He kiHs the game but the wife wIe must carry it tato camp In Iii moving he o women take up all of their earthly possessions them into a huge r rell H and with ibis ris firmly strapped across crosa their backs they fellow the unencumbered lead of their brave husbands Thus the women car carry carty ry ty day after day not niJ only all alit the tha the children and portable portions ef the tho house The have all the and the drudgery of life upon them tIeni but they seem to te it ft In of the men it ii be eaid that th 3 are worthy They will fight to te teL js ot their theis and they will guara L the boner of their women with their theIu own Blood It is ain of the ad of Christian that this thia red nina man of th the r should be bt to lay Jn down his life at the feel of the e paleface j Invaders ers em to shield the honor of hia hi home borne |