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Show I IDE TIE WOMEN PILE HE I EI I How Female Suffrage Works Out Among' the Tuaregs, Where Men Go I TOMAN snsTragi ontj fsal A - Biaha ri"i head- YY h-:,v in enlightened America In darkest Afrie.n. however, it is in oM 'r . Down in .hit. M the border of .he Sarah and not very far from l.ipoli. there is h larc tribe of na iv, known the Tuareg, who for renturiee have spelled woman with a bie W and man with the .mallrt kind of an wi. en little wa- known of theae Tuareg, until the reenl pabMesnHsa. of Hum VJaeber's look entitled " Aeress the Sahara." Viscber i one of the few explorers who hnve traversed Tripoli .m l the Sahara to Hornu B "fcrflied and HO tried hv hi' women folV." w.ivx Vis-her. "tlie Tuareg bi po libertv at all. All the coo: tenta, rameU :md elothes are tbe woman B proper! v. Tre atirlt be carries and the fr'Jtt trooden DOS into Trlurh lie put- B whnt hi erlfe suffer him ,o h.ivr are all the man possesses and all bp re-tnm re-tnm if for fonie reason hi wife H ebebees to divoras him. "When a man a'- out after sun- iel he in oanaUy fdlloarad bj ufri H servant, ent hv hi wife to doj his H r. and wrte to him if he format H himself or comes home too late. H He will find the d on r shr. and mu-t ' ronai himself lucky if he is not put H "Mo the street altogether. 'OlM would think that erOUld take a brave man t m:rtv all linger , theae rnn.H.ions. It does. To obtain g, the lie (Vi Mim which he In to par to ba lr)de. h bai to look for other iiMn than his u.u: 1 work r.f rearing B rnmels 01 ed frying goods for the Arab Hv trader. Hit only hope ot obtaining the Eli take part th,- ennua rbaaaJee or raid? m in- "The ik(iir decide vvhc.i the r'ght moment ha arrived for one of these I8""- i raid. and then the men saily fort b ; ! ntaii m aottta lueklaaa earavaa r to the rirh biffblandfl ftf Ttboatl ui, aaaaaaj if the man would u in hi- bride, he must iir i n 2 home 'the O0dai' Having thna diaplayed his phyaieaJ pmareja, be i coaaidarad elixble to ake up the mure unerous dutlej f tiaapta hoaaejtaapioiti Cadai the laari af the Toaf ejga, tl man must obe the ' woman in rven reapaat. Doaeent " t rarer through the mother. li The women ehoel their pro.i( (aaaal t .ill the Aorl'l. but (as man goes j about veiled. In the pf asanas of a wo-1 man of i n!il' I. i.'h. indeci), men trover) their U'ces and heads altogether. The i I aroataa civs the eaildreu what, little.- Veiled, Everything Belongs to the Wife, A Husband Can't Stay Out at Night, and Every Man Has to Do Just as Some Woman Tells Him - ruction tbev re"tve and train them ruiiv to respeet their mothers rather. .haii their father. rnvhieallv rbe rtieti xre more power ; i than the women hit ocinl!v and i' htieallv fhy are the "weaker sex." ft is thu men who do the conking and mind the children, while the wo men .idorn f nomeoTTni in their char-set char-set eri.xt i- raiment. This dross coni-?ts or of .nioi-k. dye.) with indigo and embroidered down the front. Over thil (bay wear l lonj piece of blue cotton cloth --lung round the bodv m all sorts of fashion and tucked in close under the Hr?n. Over their heads nd their graas hair, falliDL' in mativ small tresses on both isides of the fnce and slimy with rancid camel bntAef, they wear, like a nantUla 14 ears piece of woolen cloth ded a bright red U'ith their large, silver earrings, heavy bangles and ank let, shrill, hut not unpleasant voices, hrnnn vcf hnnd. coal blaek eye-, and -inning sthite teeth, their whole ap nearanaa eipfeasi av confidence or tlii' melaiichnlv ie,ert which urronnds t hem. The men are fortunate if thev can obtain a loincloth and n veil. There no dolling-up ' ' for them. Their peraonel appearance doaiO 'I count it all. Indeed, t heir domest ic dtities are InOlli that when the day's work it over they have little inclination for .ni thing but sleep. In addition to their household -. however, the men ar expect ; cd to increase the family store by rear log camels or doing odd jobfl for Arabian trader. The ehiel of the Tnareaa is woman, hc i lOleetSd by the women, the men having nothing to sav about it at all. The sromen m ike the laws am 1 namraTIv 1 niiiigh the don '1 ezaetlv favor the men. 'j"ir,is, ji sromaa eaa dlvoroe hus- liand for the slighlpht cause but th man ha Be remedv p. sj tor the marital inJdelity oi Ins spouse. The properv of the Tuarec descends 0 the daii2hter TTpon the death of a arOmaa hei sridowar receiv e;, nothing If J there is a surviving daughter, but if there il no daughter fh sridowei di vide- the propertv wVh the DU I ' il dren. The trange thine about i at Il tu;(i the men have not yet become nneay under the yoke. Tbey have n"t et male ,my attempt to secure ''equal ngn'' with their wonien but sori inglv are ouite reconciled with their lot. Thin is particularly surprimg in view of the fact that in their veins flows tbo blood of Berber ancestry 1 and. in their language Is preserved the purest, speech of that tongue, for .'he ancestors of lliceo tribes were1 probabl the most liberty-loving ot that independent race. Indeed, their pqfi .nee m the Crent Desert ii prob ably due to the fact that rather I ban be aobjURate! .'hey retreated to the vast arid plain. Tons.dering. loo. that the lives of the Tunregs are spent mostly n" br march, often without food and shelter, under conditions where the physical raperiority Of the male., might b- sup posed to civp them correspond 1 n privileges, priv-ileges, the domination of their women is the more surprising. It has been suggested that the Tuareg customs are reallv the best sur vivals we have of what n called "the mat riarchate. " This svn I period when women actuallv ruled all the world, anil the men were used onl;-' ns hunters. This time was ages ago. hut there are traces of it still in nianv cov crnrnents. The matfiarcbate crew out of the greut fact of tnaternitv. At this time there was no marriage as we understand it. The identity Oi a father made little differene. The mother brought up the children She had to lenrn the SeSBOnSi because such knovrlcdge was neccriar tor the aue cess of her gardening She grew tc know the medicinal properties of herb-and herb-and barks bv the neecusity of curing her Children when thev were sick Hie probably invented the tire. rude asjTlcultnral implements. In her. 111 fact, was uM the useful knowledge oi the time. Men didn't have to bother about it. Ho was too taken up with the masculine pleasures of hunting, fishincr and rich""- Knowledge $ power, and bj means of it the women 0 the matrian hfito kept, the men ir. subjection. She was the priestess of the first ru ie. religion?. Her Icnowl-'lo Icnowl-'lo w; banded down to hci dauch Group of Tuareg Men Veiled Like Women, and Beside Them an Unveiled Tuareg Bridegroom "-Ji UEyiiny,!. u."'stl i. 1 j. 1 . A Tuareg Woman Note the Uncovered Face and SeJfjJ'f' ters. who kept up the rough govern I menial f stem. There enme a time, however when men ohafad at their position. Then was probably a real war between the women and the men. The latter wu, Hurl fo for agea wouieu occupied ap proximately the same position as now. The suffrage movement. i! a bit of noetic justice, and an effort at partial return to power. The TuBTeoja probably prob-ably have bad handed down to them in better shape than :mv other tribe the traditions and customs of ''the matriarchntc. 1 ' Wh the men of this particular faoiilv of mankind didn't win out in and Bfj ' rv have no I radii ion to exphjH The Danger of La Grippi .m-:: Is ite fatal tendency to inriirooi)pv & cure vour la u ippa coughs take HH7 Honey and Tar i"ompound. R. E. rBsBlU Waslunctcn. K.is.. says: ' ' I ru ssbbV led with a s-..---ri. ntta.d: ot It ! that t lirentcned pneumonia. AtBBF :ci ;. 1 J 's if 7 and Tit flr ' pound ond I cot relief after tanaHhsii first few dose:?. I took three hotthlHl tt ' ;ny ia grippe was . Gel tkisB uine, in the yellow package. StksB 1 Johnson, Drugs. "The Nererdfe1 " tutors." Five (3) eod stores. 1 |