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Show Wimiaiia farad lw It li not Aurriea at all, aa we 1 ire laxu 11 to mi into, but In the mlJ lie of the Man) of homatra. If weare to la. Uore the tale to) 1 by a returned trmlrr, an American, Mr W. J. Sluw. The women own all the wciltli In thlt aba wiraJlre, owlnj chiefly to the working of a certain law which rFqalrca men to loatow all their wealth on their rcula, while women may band thelre down to tho ihlMrtn. Cunicqucully It It the effort ef-fort of the well coulucted huabniid In tho Interior of bumatra to lut eirry autof lit accumulation! lu bltnlfoa nainr, to that hit ami chit Inn miy set bit money after bit death. In thlt thrlco bleated region a man may get a dtrorco from bit wife If be cbooaeti but aa atl her property U al lowed to remain In her luaamalon after the It art free, while tho huaban I It turned out w lllinut a uuy, he inn illy 1 't not ihooae, and dlrorcct ara rare. Moreot er, a liuiban 1 may not lire In the uiuo bouao with hit w Ife, to that tho female fe-male ueinUra of ahouMboIl aretATcit all the bother of liming "a man around In tho way." The huiban 1 callt on hit wife In the evening, ilrctaol In bit beat mill f clotbtt, at a lover doet Inch illrt-1 countries (Jouaoquently qiurnlt bo tnoon linaban 1 and wife are practically unknown In thlt binthon country. There are icolJ an 1 allier ml not In tlio country, and the native uu lerttand the art of woiklng the rollout mctalt into ctolh atnl omainenta. It It no unoommon tl In,' to tee Kill, walking about ch 1 lu clolhof tfollilieitit, I'erlutit nt n re tult ot harlot luih n t'iw.1 time anl liailng thing! their own way the women uf thlt favored country are rory brjutl fill, having goml llguret, excrotllnly Hue coiupleilona and 1 right oyct," They dhjliy gorguuut warilroboa alto, II re Itngooitltud for the nnhapjy womi.n of cUillieit countriaa to mlirrate ta |
