Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — Corsican Women. [ARTICLE]

Corsican Women.

The women of Corsica are devoted to their husbands, and willingly sacrifice everything to their demands. A wife considers herself the complement of the man, not his equal In the house she keeps discreetly in the background. Says the London Queen: At meal-times wife and daughters will not sit down with her guests, but hover about as attendants. Out of doors the men go forth to work gun- in hand, while the women walk behind carrying the heavy tools. If the happy couple nave to climb a steep and stony path, and they happen to possess only one horse, it is the naan who bestrides the wiry-limbed beast, while the wife may consider herself lucky if she be permitted to catch hold of the stirrup-leather or the horse’s tail