Show TURKISH RULER BANS POL Y Peasants Are Deprived cd of Cheap Labor Under Wife Law ANGORA July 16 By 6 By The Asso Asso- Associated Associated elated The Pless The once polygamous Turkish peasant Is going to lose Jose money by having fewer fe wives rt Kemal Pashas Pasha's modernized standard of mar mar- marriage marriage nage and morals The adage that two can live more cheaply than one was as perhaps true only In the land of the Turks Peasant wives vives even e the men agree do more work than the men They do the housework and the farm wor word and anything else They get the small cup of strong black sugary su ary coffee for their lord by the time he gets geu up before sunrise they out-labor out him ln the fields serve him at dinner and altogether put In fn more and harder hours each day thin t n he does Wives W In a word are cheap labor for the Turkish peasant Those who have ha a good supply may keep them under the new laws but the code says sas there may be no more polygamous marriages Each of these wives even in peasant po po erty Is ts supposed to have r her own 11 home hoe pommy at t least aes a corner of the house to herself Long customs religious In Influence In- In Influence influence fluence and the approval al of all wives for the addition of a new one gener gener- generally generally generally ally eliminated Jealousy from the home One reason for taking a new wife by either rich or poor was the desire dc re for children particularly sons If I the first wife or wives did not meet this I requirement It was customary cu tomary for them to make room for someone else Plural marriages however have lia been by no means general contrary to ancient belief abroad The well stocked harem was as something known to the few City dwellers dwell rs who had to earn cam their livings had no more than one wife fe |