Show female POLYGAMY female polygamy or a plurality of husbands is is authorized zed by law in in ceylon and this is is not the result of female mormonism or free love or any new light of that it is an old nair custom having prevailed among the under the sanction of law from time immemorial almost the full latitude of mormon plurality of wives wives however is is not by lorn corn mon men practice given to the female polygamy of ceylon in general the sing aelese women make a close family matter of it a woman marrying all the brothers of a family more or less in this respect the ceylon polygamy corresponds with that of some of our north american indian tribes where the men take to themselves es all the sisters of a family as their wives wi es As the indians dono do no other work than that of hunting and depend wholly upon the labor of their wives wives for whatever subsistence they derive from their agricultural crops there is is an in inducement du cement for them to multiply partners in in toil and so amon among the indians it is is a common maxim maxim the more wives wives tho the more corn 11 how is is it with the east india women we do not know but if the same came rage rage for dress prevail ail among them theia as with w ich our ladies it it is is possible that they maybe may be governed by the same principles arid and that the maxim maxim with them is is the more husbands the more inore pin money this species of polygamy in in ceylon is is chiefly confined we w e believe to one district of that island candy and perhaps to the portion of the population we vve observe from late bombay papers that the ceylon legislative council has undertaken a reform in in the matter and declared that hereafter every woman shall be satisfied with w ith one husband or in in other words that no two or three or four men shall at the same sime dirae have one and the same wife boston courier |