A Reason For Monogamy.
Believers in the "strong, purposeful, independent" woman of to-day will find significant the following anecdote of a Chineso missionary. Tim missionary was taking tea with a mandarin's eight wives. The 'Chinese ladies examined her clothing, her hair, her teeth, and so on, but her feet especially amazed them. "Why," one cried, "you can walk and run as well a 3 a man!" "Yes, to be sure," said the missionary. "Can you ride a horse and swim, too?" "Yes. ,y "Then you must be as strong as a man?" "I am." "And you wouldn't let a man beat you —not even if he was your husband—would you?" "Indeed, I wouldn't," said the missionary. The mandarin's eight ladies looked at one another, nodding their heads. Then the oldest said softly: "Now I understand why the foreign devil never has more than one wife. He is afraid "
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Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 82
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