The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current, March 12, 1897, Image 7
MARRIAGES IN INDIA. THE CHOICE OF A WIFE A MATTER OF CRAVE CONCERN, Everybody Takes a Hand-The Youth's Choice Must Satisfy His Parents and Their Friends Services are Unknown, Dr. Gangadan, a Hindoo physician. who Is now traveling in this country ( has found much to admire in our cus toms and laws, and he has had much of interest to tell of the curious customs of his native land. To a reporter of the Indianapolis Journal he gave an entertaining interview in regard to the marriage customs of his home. “There are several classes of women in my country,'’ said the. doctor, “and only those whose husbands get a dol¬ lar or even less a month will do any kind of labor outside of their own house. Even the wives of the men who labor for $4 a month have all their housework done by servants. All the women of India are married by the time they are fourteen, and must be at the age of sixteen, else they will be thought to be of unsound mind or body. The young people have no part in the court¬ ship, the selection and arrangement of the marriage being done by the par¬ ents.” “Then yon have no love marriages?” ventured the reporter. The doctor smiled and his eyes brightened as he answered: “Ah, but we have, and I will undertake to show yon that we have love marriages in the truest sense of the word; and I will prove to you that our marriage laws are better than those of this country, where the youths and maidens are rear¬ ed and educated together and allowed to choose and marry at first sight. The first ceremony in India usually takes place when the girl is five years old and the boy eight. The father of the boy goes among the men of his own rank, caste and station in life, for we never marry either beneath or above us, and selects a girl that he thinks will make a worthy wife for his son. He goes home and consults his wife, who sends several of her trustworthy women to see the girl. After due de¬ liberation and thought the girl is chos¬ en. Then her parents act in the same way toward the boy. So you see our marriages are made by wise heads and loving hearts. After the first ceremony the hoy and girl go on with their edu¬ cation, seeing nothing of each other, for how would children of that age know what to talk about? The girl is taught that her husband is next to God to her; that she must lo ve, honor a: less io him is the attribute that makes her an Ideal Indian woman. The hoy is taught the same sacred truths concerning wed¬ ded li/e; his wife Is his purest posses¬ sion; he must love her devotedly and her for ever. “Now, all through those years of training the boy sees no other girls and the girl sees no other boys, She] goes at will from her father's house ! to the boy’s home and learns the names of all the members of his household., When she is about fourteen and he is] eighteen they are formally married with much ceremony, and the girl lives, with her husband's people. When a i Carriage is oned made in India there: Is no law for separation. We have no ! divorce courts. Even though a woman should tire of marriage and is rarely return the to ] her father’s home, which j case, the husband is bound to support | her as long as she lives; he cannot • marry again unless she permits it. A ] woman can never marry but once. But often, when the husband dies first, the wife will throw herself on the burniug body rather than live without him, so deep is her love. Once I heard this re mark, that nothing on earth equaled a ■wife's love. I determined to test my wife. One evening I went to her room and told her that I was suffering from a fatal disease; that my physician had ■ told me that nothing would save my life except a drop of blood from some per son's heart. She was much alarmed about me, and asked if I had gone to any other doctors. I told her I had. anil all had told me the same thing. ’Then.’ she said, ‘you shall take my life-blood.’ Of course I protested, but she was firm, and, to see how far I] could carry my joke, I got the knife; j she came -to me in loving calmness; I | look her in my arms and she threw ba< k ! her head on my breast, and I actually] drew the knife across her throat, and she never flinched. Of course, then 1 explained to her, but I ever after be Iieved in the truth of that remark. • In India the wife always lives with her husband's people, and the house holds are thus very large. THere are fifty in my father's family, and our houseJA about three times as large as upr#iei. his salary Every income male from member his business brings or homo and gives it to.the oldest man, •WE is the master of the home. My native home is Dmgapore, but I am a pr ing physician at Calcutta, and . all the money i moke outside of my ex¬ pen ;en home to my father, who ] is w r of the household. But i when one of the family travels, as I am doing n< pported by those at home. 1 India the 22nd of last M eled through the European countr and came to A u erica in Aug ust. intending to stay two weeks, but it will be ail of six months before I leave the States entirely.” , Speaking further the doctor, who Is 33 and a widower, said: "I can never marry an Indian lady now', for at home : they will call me a Christian, though I am not one and do not believe in the i religion. Yet I have eaten and drunk, I lived and studied with the Christian people, and that is enough to bar me | from the association of Indian ladies « 1 «« marry- again my wife will have to be an English or an American lady Stalking a Deer on the Ice. We had gone up in the great bay near the head of the lake, when the boys and dogs, rummaging around the woods and along the shore, started a deer and chased it onto the ice, and we had the most exciting chase im¬ mediately after I ever took part in. We did not harm the animal, and had we wished to do so we couldn't, for there wasn't a gun in the crowd; hut we made him “make the effort of his life .. before he broke the troeha we built around him and got away. When wo sighted him he was mailing straight across the bay, which is five miles wide, and the ice was so slippery that he could not make anything like the usual time of his when they throw their souls into their heels, and scatter miles behind them with an easy indif ference most beautiful to witness. We played wolf on him. “Doc.” Spalding, who was riding the ice bi¬ cycle, shot straight ahead, and very soon passed him, and forced him to turn, and when he did turn there was a ring of skaters all around him, and for an hour he played with us very much as a four-legged animal might. We got him running in a circle, but we were unable to catch him, for every time any one tried it, that venture some individual either failed to get a hold on him, or, succeeding, was hurled as from a catapult along the ice, to the great delight of all the rest. It was the merriest skating party 1 ever witnessed, although the deer might not have seen much matter for merriment in it. But he was perfectly safe, unless his wind played out before ours did, of which the event proved there was small danger. One wing of the circular troeha we had formed in the line got out of breath and slowed up, a gap was formed in the line, and the deer went through it like a flash, and the last we saw of him was “hull down,” and go ing as merrily as if freshly started.— Minneapolis Journal. A Mechanical Baseball, ft ’rtfrW............rbnr-a'f.nn which is intended to take the place of a pitcher in base ball batting practice has been invented by Mr. C*n. Hinton, an Eng lishman, instructor of mathematics at Princeton University. It is claimed for the Hinton mechani be made to shoot 1 cal pitcher that it can a base ball so as to make it curve in or out or drop, and at almost any speed required. It was only after construct- ; ing a number of catapults, cannons and guns, all proving unsuccessful, that Mr. Hinton finally succeeded in making a gun that did not propel the ball with death-dealing velocity, but which could be depended upon to send the bull at moderate speed, witn reasonable accur acy, and at the same time curve it. The gun consists, first, of a cylinder in which the ball is placed. Behind the ball is placed a movable breech, and to this is attached a tube. At the other end of the tube is a rifle, minus the barrel, the tube taking the place of the barrel. A blank cartridge is placed in the gun, widen, when fired, generates enough gas in the tube to propel the ball. The powder thus acts indirectly upon the base ball and not directly as it does on a bullet in a gun barrel, It thus has more the effect oi compressed air. Shot straight out of the cylinder thus the base ball would, of course, go straight, except as affected by the at traction of gravitation. To produce the curve Mr. Hinton made some iron fingers, padded on the inside with rub ber. the fingers being attached to a false muzzle and can be turned at will. The base ball, when shot, strikes these fingers on one stde and receives a rapid rotary motion. The ball is made thus to curve toward the side on which the fingers are. Large Steamship for Invalids. An European ship-owning concern has place( j another order for the con struct ion of a large steamer, which is to be specially adapted and fitted for lhe " needs „f invalids who want fresn and a favorable climate. For nine monlhs of the year the vessel w.U . wjt h its sick passengers, the three months being spent in the ()f . cks for digin fecting and repairing, XHs gteamer. wMch is hut the fore / f){ Sargft fleet s i mi i a r in par ^ ^ a floating palace of con an(J be althfuiness. A rain the Horse Retires. i*itj Part of the horse market in Paris has been aside to be used for the sale of bicycles, and the track on which tbe*equin« ire tested will serve a like purpe or the silent steed. Gouirbana claims to have tb-* larg-«t farm in the wor?<l; it is otM- ::uteir«-<l mile* long by twenty-five mflc& broad. WEEKLY HE VIEW 01' TRADE. Slow and Gradual Improvement I Continues. BETTER P151IA.VI > KOI GOODS, IWause of Expected Kevuon of the , Tariff.-Iie.nami tor Hosomer Pig 1)o ] (is the Price I'p.-Tb Demand for Cotton Goods Poe* Nt Improve. 1 Tices are a Shade Lowe: Failures. New York. N. Y. 11. G. iun Co. say in their weekly review of fade: Tile slow and gradual inprovenieiit observed for sometime ha continued during the past week, aid without material eheck. There is i belter de¬ mand for most products oi the whole, with eoutiuuuuce of *pectlatlve buy¬ ing in some, notably wool, because of expected duties. Meamviile, money markets continue as easy/ ud undis¬ turbed as if there hud newt- been any anxiety about the gold bserve, and fairly large sales of stocks «u London account during tin 1 wvek, possibly be¬ cause of international antietles, have made no precept ilde difference in American markets. Cotou has do clined ;,u ilu,! witl » 00 * vea ' son, for, although receipts ’roui puuita tious fall, the decrease is not greater than tlie decrease in lousoituption, owing to the stoppage <i mills. As ''"‘re is comparatively Ittle cotton available in the country, tlve market 11 vrr ^ convenient on- for specu Inters to manipulate, While many of the mils have stop ped production of cotton goods foi a time, the general outlook is, on the j whole, unchanged, and th> demand for goods does not improve, while cloths t lower, The demand for are a shade ' wool bus diminished, though only for a little, and sales are f.uite a third more than the full for consumption of all mills If all were it work, but , the speculative buying continues. hive Although some mills gone into operation, the course of tie market has not favored great activity, but it may be said that for goods of the highest grades there is a better demand than heretofore. , The boot ami shoe Industry can reckon a good many more shops at work, and shipments lave been us large for the past four weeks as la ar ,y previous year. j The market for materials has not changed to any Important extent. I While the devidHt Wwuteiner P'B has sustained the recent advance to $10.75 per ton at Pittsburg, and gray forge is still quoted at P-IW there, and there is also less cUttlngW prices to get more business u finis)|d products, the general range of prices still eon Unites very low. Wire n. i have been advanced by heavy buying to $1.40 per g,,g. w'thout change in cut mils, which ;i 1*( ■ dull, and theTe is les -v idence of postern mills selling rails below $20, ( >xcept for export, some rules of that character having been mu le at $1R. Western makers are said to be firm at p,.r ton. But the demands of the )1|(|St import,im railways l ave been ^ | M for )!h , p r ,. S ent. tun consuin ^ (>) . ar0 tlo , j n the market just now. and with somewlial larger duet........' pig iron it m«> 1* doubted whet bet outside of rails tl. • d.aiiaml for finished products equals the eupac ity of work I'ailures for the week have l.eeu 2ifi in the United Slates against ‘~’H5 last ■" ]’ r and 59 ’u Canada, agllnst 08 ’ last year, i BRADSTUEET’S REI’OIt V. ( Ixew York. -IlvadKtreefs say; The l new Administration, the certainty of an ( >xtra session of Congress within ;l fortnight, and the promise of a new )a rifT at an early day, which shall i provide adequate revenue and protee )ion ] iaV( . done much to stimulate a !)( |1( , r f,, e ij nf . in trade circles and in . ^ j„ the near approach l Qf improvement in business, ^ ^ c . 1( , aringg at s( venty-four < dies |.' ( .|, n iury aggregated decrease of 17.8 per cent, ffom — cent Januttry l()tal an(] ui.2 tier from that for February a year ago. Tin* merchandise movement is equal i • .stations )( " ,. 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