Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1885 — Where Women Are Old at Thirty. [ARTICLE]

Where Women Are Old at Thirty.

The government of the house of the Brahmin is strictly in the hands of the man; of the father during the youth of the family, and of the eldest son after he marries. The son always takes his wife home to the parental roof, and, as the sons marry, additions are bnilt to thh honse until it becomes a village in itself. lii this place the women are imprisoned—literally buried alive. From the day of their marriage, which is at a very early age, they never see more of the outer world than the narrow expanse of the Bky and cloud that looks down npon them between the walls of their prison home. No men are allowed to enter \the honse but members of the family and the priest except on very rare occasions, and then unseen by the women. Married at 10 years, for spins terhood is abominable—mothers at 12, they are old at the beginning of their fifth bustrnm. They die of sheer old age at about 30. — Lei. ter to the Montreal Star.