Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1910 — Where Women Rule Spineless Men. [ARTICLE]

Where Women Rule Spineless Men.

The selection of Fishguard In 'Wales as a new port of call for the big steamships of the Cunard line has enabled hundreds of travelers who never had heard of the place before to find a lively interest in the little village of Llangwm, near by. Most of the inhabitants are of Flemish origin, descendants of the soldiers of fortune who pushed their adventurous way all along the southern coast of England and Anally settled In Wales 400 or 500 years ago, and their quaint costumes and customs still mark them off from their neighbors as a people apart. The most remarkable feature of their life lies in the position which ths women hold among them. Llangwm might stand as the ideal of it he most extreme advocates of women’s rights, for there the women are in supreme control. The men are regarded merely as household conveniences. They stay at home and look after their domestic duties as the women go out and act as the ’’men of the family,” earning the family livelihood and also holding the family purse strings. The women are the owners of the farms and cottages, and their husbands are perfectly satisfied that everything should be in their bands, doing such work as their wives tell them and filling an entirely secondary place In the household.