Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1897 — The Women of Thibet. [ARTICLE]

The Women of Thibet.

Miss Taylor, a young English woman who recently returned from Thibet, and Is now gathering missionary recruits for that mysterious country, says that men and women who understand medicine will be most successful In that field. The knowledge of drugs, she adds, among the natives is almost equal to that of the English themselves. The position of women, according to Miss Taylor, is higher in Thibet than in any other country of the orient, save perhaps in Mongolia. In place of polygamy, so common among the Mahometans, polyandry Yules in Thibet, a woman being married as a rule to all the brothers of a family. In consequence of the nomadic character of the people, usually one of the husbands is at home at a time, the others being absent in more or less distant parts, sell Ing the products of their lands. Women In Thibet, Miss Taylor asserts, are never punished—a fact to which she attributes the saving of her life on several occasions.