WHERE WOMEN RULE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1706, 22 December 1919, Page 10

WHERE WOMEN RULE.

More man has little voice in _ governing I affairs on the Eskimo inhabited* Little Diomedo, ono of the Diomedes Islands that arc out in two by the international boundary line across the Behring, Sea ■•between Alaska and Siberia. Women/ and children do most of the.ruling, according to reports reachjng the Alaska Territorial Burcuu of Publicity. Before a man can make a purchase he must get his wife's consent. If a mother is living with a married son or daughter her consent must be obtained. Wealth is estimated in skins and the rich' .provide for the poor. Official suicide is provided for. When one of the natives tires of hunting seals and I fishing and trapping, and desires to end liis existence, he. makes formal application to the governing body for permission to take his life. The Rev Peter Green has declined the offer of thOßishoprie of Lincoln because ho considers - bishops' palaces and motor cars' a stumbling block to Christianity. In connection with the system of general military instruction set up by the Petrogi'ad Soviet, orders have-been given that all illiterates in Pctrograd shall be taught to read and write in the course of six months.

A decree has been issued by the Soviet Government that undertakings should pay P'irt el" the salaries of the workers in kind. Undertakings will now be required to supply workmen with clothes, boots, and underwear.