Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1925-11-27 | Page 3 | Where Wives are Boss

Where Wives Are Boss What a visiting sea captain calls , "he harems" are to be found among the Marquesas islands of the South seas. The bulky, brown Amazonian i women are unspoilt by association with oriental ideas, and collect half I a dozen husbands or more. The col- j lection is done by the simple expedi- j ent of driving the man with a bamboo pole into the harem, thrashing him I we'd to make him thoroughly understand under-stand who is in command and set ting him to work on the coconut plan 1 tation or at the housework. Thes conditions .only obtain in the Islam's that are unvisited by steamship-. The windjammer trader is the onU white man who find the natives ia their primitive condition.