Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — The Eternal Feminine. [ARTICLE]

The Eternal Feminine.

The South African 'natives in Boerland still preserve their old customs, and one of the most curious is that of carrying off a girl for a wife. The sustom is called “ukutwala,” and the girl, though not indisposed to accept the man, causes every obstacle to be placed in his way. The suitor watches his opportunity (after first placing so many head of cattle in the kraal of the girl’s father) and eventually carries away the girl by main force. The heartrending cries of the bride, as she is carried away, are something pitiful—a cry that pierces the heart of a Christian, but his pity subsides when he learns that in native language it means: “Don’t take me, but don’t let any ■ one help me, because I want to go!’’