Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — Primitive Man in New York. [ARTICLE]

Primitive Man in New York.

“The primitive man, the primitive man!” exclaimed Prof. Sumner, in his most strident tones; “I can show you the primitive man in any great city, with his low forehead, his prognathous jaws, his large, knuckly hands and splay feet. He and all his modifications up to the perfected form and the spiritualized intelligence are everywhere around us.” The treatment of women is one of the attributes of the primitive man and the low savage; especially his right to trade her off like a beast of burden. A queer story, which carries us back to our semibrutish ancestors, is that of a man who, getting tired of New York, determined to return to the old country, and, having no funds, hung out a notice that he would sell his wife, with all his right, title, and interest in her, to the highest bidder. A Chinaman offered S3O; but the owner stood out for S4O; and when he found that a wife was not a salable article, and that he would be arrested if he persisted in the sale, disappeared, and is supposed to have drowned himself in disgust at a society in which a man may not do as he wills with his own. —New York Dial,