Woman's Share in Primitive Culture. With Numerous Illustrations
Woman's Share in Primitive Culture. With Numerous Illustrations
Otis Tufton Mason
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X Consult Wake, op. cit, for references to Menard, De Coulanges, Herodotus, Code of Menu, etc., p. 443, et seq. Digitized by CjOOQIC 230 WOMAN'S SHARE IN PRIMITIVE CULTURE. might call it, with which woman has been held to the marriage relation, which she has scarcely ever been able to escape, and from which it has been most difficult for her to break away, we are momentarily filled with pity. But in this very discipline are to be found the ground- work and the reason for that high moral purpose... and purity which mark her in the family life of cultured society. Most surely, society of our day is not looking to divorced women for its reclamation. Stable society in the past has been solidly constructed around the woman, who has been taught that to escape the responsibilities of her position was next to impossible. How do savages provide for widows? Remember that the widow usually is one who has not changed her clan in marriage or her name. She has therefore two means of support secure even though she may not seek self-sup- port.
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