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Show As In the Stone Age. In the Stone Ago the custom of our ancestors of the male persuasion was that when something particularly attractive appeared in the form of a woman to one of them, when her moccasins were with great taste embroidered, or when there was an especial grace in the way she wore the feather in her hair, or when her father had a warm hut and plenty of furs, or there was some special attraction, at-traction, he told the lady, as do the men nowadays, now-adays, that of all the women ho had ever seen, she was the only one that was altogether lovely, and he wanted her for a wife. This was generally outside out-side the hut, and the young lady said, "Never on your life," and bolted. Thereupon the young man took after her. When he overtook her he launched a straight right one behind her left ear, which sent, her to grass. After that, so the legends run, she decided that she had made all the resistance that was ladylike, and she . submissively became the young man's wife and lived happily ever after. That custom must have been the rule so long that it finally became second nature in the minds of men and women. It was not a question of the man's fitness to marry, not a question of supporting support-ing a family, but merely a question of his desire in the first place and his ability as a sprinter in the second. Here in Utah, since the laws have been fixed so that a woman who goes into polygamy can recover re-cover nothing in case her fraction of a man pleases to disinherit her, the proof is at hand that a great many young women have gone into that state, taking the risk of being left on the death of the man neither a wife, maid nor widow. The sandbag on the left ear has done the business. The nature of that sandbag strikes the young woman in the form of a superstitious fear that unless she sub- raMHMMHHHHHHHHMI mits, her soul will be lost. Mohammed taught that women had not of themselves a soul that could be saved, except by becoming some man's wife, either a first or plural wife. And if Joseph Smith did not jJ build his system on a kindred brutal thought, then all the present signs fail. And ho, like Mohammed, must have worked on the old Stone Age theory that something which jJ knocked silly the reasoning power of women would do the business. Let no mother think that this is jH written in a spirit of levity, for it is the appalling 'H truth, as is made clear in Utah today. It may be 'H asked why women do not recoil before such a state. The answer is, it is the old instinct that H has come down from the Stone Age the super- H stitious fear which makes woman afraid of annihil- H atlon, with death, unless in life she has made the H needed sacrifice. Then, too, the daily contempla- H tion through girlhood blunts the sensibilities of H many women, and with the first disappointment in jH a love affair they accept the alternative, saying to JH themselves, "After all, what is the difference?" It H is this that the Senate of the United States is en- jH couraging nowadays and has been encouraging jH for three years past, and seems anxious to find an jH excuse to stand by it, notwithstanding its Inherent treason and its degradation of woman. . H |