WHERE WOMAN RULES
Travancore is one of the world's most curious countries," says Miss Brenthal, who ig. on leave in Sydney after 10 years in this • native . State: "The women are the heads ■ of f amilies., All property is handed from generatiOn to generation through the women. - i •"A man is insignificant, Marriage is arranged for him, and after the wedding he goes to his wife's horrie." If the - wife -does not like himy she sends him -back to his- mother, ahd they are divorced. ■ - • • • ' "Even a man's children are not considered his own. " -Strangely enough, they are not even his wife's heirs; but his sister's, and while he is not guardian of his own children, he is guardian of his sister's.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 21, 17 September 1931, Page 5
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