" "It is already known there," replied he, "and has been long practised by many in the east: but in the present state of society with you, it might do more harm than good to be made public, by removing one of the checks of licentiousness, where women are so unrestrained as they are with you.

" "All women are so, my son, more or less," interrupted the holy bonze.

Young soldiers, Maud, who are sent early from their homes, have too many inducements to forget them and those they contain; and we women are so dependent on the love of our male friends, that it is wisdom in us to keep alive all the earlier ties as long and as much as possible.

"She's a good woman, an' so's my wife," remarked Bill sententiously; "an' Colonel Wheeler says good women are so rigged inside that they can't be agreeable all the time.

Then, too, among civilized peoples the individualities of women are so far recognized that the life and liberty of a wife are not supposed to be bound up with those of her husband; and she now, having obtained a right to exclusive possession of property, contends for complete independence, domestic and political.

Whenever it happens that two beautiful women are so happy as to find a pretext to get rid of each other, they seize upon it with vivacity, and hate each other with a cordiality which proves how much they loved each other before the rupture.

Being that men and women are so irreligious, depraved by nature, so wandering in their affections, so brutish, so subject to disagreement, so unobservant of marriage rites, what shall I say?

[6110]In the kingdom of Malabar, and about Goa in the East Indies, the women are so subtile that, with a certain drink they give them to drive away cares as they say, "they will make them sleep for twenty-four hours, or so intoxicate them that they can remember nought of that they saw done, or heard, and, by washing of their feet, restore them again, and so make their husbands cuckolds to their faces."

Their dress, male and female, is composed principally of softened hides; but the women are so fond of ornaments as often to wear fifty necklaces at one time.

" "And why?" "Women are so impressionable!

"If all women are so, and she's a woman?" "Ah, logic, dear lady," said Wilsey, holding up a finger"logic, you know, has never been the specialty of your sex.

You throw stones at us because our women are so free and our divorces so easy.

Young men are so fond of making fine speeches; and young women are so silly in fancying they mean something.

But women are so queerly fashioned that at the last I cannot, quite, consent to harm this gray, staid, tedious fellow, nor any of his chattels.

Women are so weak and helpless in these matters.

She does not think it is because American women are so cold or so good that they are so virtuous, but because the men don't tempt them at all.

" In Corea women are so little esteemed that they do not even receive separate names, and a husband considers it an act of condescension to speak to his wife.

Of the Patagonian Indians Falkner asserts that the women are so rigidly "obliged to perform their duty, that their husbands cannot help them on any occasion, or in the greatest distress, without incurring the highest ignominy," and this is the general feeling, of which other illustrations will be given in later chapters.

Women are so far appreciated as they are valuable animals.

" Dalton gives a vivid description of these festivals as practised by the Hos in January, when the granaries are full of wheat and the natives "full of deviltry:" "They have a strange notion that at this period men and women are so overcharged with vicious propensities, that it is absolutely necessary for the safety of the person to let off steam by allowing, for a time, full vent to the passions.

Women, difficult as some people find it to believe, are human beings; and because women are so, they want work, and interest, and loveboth given and receivedand children, and, in short, the satisfaction of every human need.

The pasty looks to me as if it were tender, but I know that the hearts of women are so.

Few are aware of the danger arising from those very intimate connections which young women are so fond of forming.

A certain good woman of Stettin, whose husband was coming home from the trenches, thought that she would welcome her soldier with one of the cakes of which German men and women are so fond.

These red-faced young and old women are so healthy that steam seems to exhale from them.