A Wife in Bombay.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 404, 21 September 1889, Page 3

A Wife in Bombay.

' The Bombay • Guardian ' calls attention to an extraordinary book which is being distributed broadcast as a prize book in the Government girls' schools, in the Bombay Presidency. The following quotations art given as specimens of the teachings set forth in the book :—: — If tho husband of a virtuous woman bis ugly, of good or bad disposition, diseased, fiendish, irascible, a drunkard, old,' stupid, dumb, blind, deaf, hot-tempered, poor, extremely Govetous, a slanderer, cowalrdly, perfidious, and immoral, nevertheless she ought to worship him as god with mind, speech, and person. The wife who girea an ugly answer to her husband will become a village parish dog ; she will also become a female jackal and live in an uninhabited desert. The woman who eats sweetmeat's without sharing them with her husband will become a hen-owl living in a hollow tree. The woman who walks along without her hueband will become' a filth-eating village sow. The woman who speaks disrespectfully to her husband' will be dumb in the next incarnation. The woman who hates her husband's relations will become from birth to birth a musk-rat living in filth. She who is always jealous of her husband's concubine will be childless in the next incarnation.