Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — Montenegrin Women. [ARTICLE]

Montenegrin Women.

Deprived of all moral or social pleasures enjoyed by her sox elsewhere, it might be fancied that the women of the Black Mountain would find in her home a reward for the. hardships she endures, and for her unremitting devotion to the inen of her family. Nothing of the kind. Within the compass of the domestic walls the men are-even more brutal than despotic. However careful the wife, the husband finds a pretext for scolding and grumbling. The wife who remonstrates is soon convinced that silence is the best No- Montenegrin woman dares

concern herself in her husband’s affairs. Whether he goes out or comes in, she is not permitted to make any inquiry nor show in any way that she worries over his prolonged or unusual absences. When he his wife, though threatened witl>death, .will never reveal his whereNo husband writes to his wife, no matter how long he is away from home. In the vicinity of Mustar I met a woman whose husband had been two years in Constantinople. Through a indiscretion she learned of his whejeaolMlts sixteen months after the separation. At first, I thought I had met with a very rare exception, but I sochi discovered that it was the general rule. A Montenegrin laughed at me when I expressed indignant surprise. Write to a woman—to one’s own wife! ” said he in scorn. “Are we doves or men?”

The chiAch was warm, the minister was dull, and everybody fell asleep but half-witted Jamie. “My brethren,” shouted the indignant pastor, “you should take the example of that fool there. He keeps awake.” “Ay, ay, minister,” said Jamie, “but if I hadn’t been a fool, I would have been asleep like the ithers.” The aged and infirm are strengthened and faculties brightened by Malt Bitters. England has a new pest, the tipula grub, which ultimately blossoms into a Daddy Eonglegs. If goes to the root of every green thing with amazing appetite, and so serious are its ravages that the Royal Agricultural Society has issued an elaborate description of it and its little ways. Clergymen, lawyers and authors find Malt Bitters a pure and safe invigorant. During the past fiscal year, according to official information obtained at Washington, more settlers have occupied homesteads on the public lands than in any former year.