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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1921)
THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY. MAY . 1021. 8 A iWar Boosts Price Of Wives in India From $3 to $25 Hindoos Bitterly Complain at High Prices, Says Metho dist Publishing House . Agent of Lucknow Here. Discussion! of prices before the war are just as popular in India as they are in Omaha according to Mvron O. Insko, agent for the Meth odist Publishing house at Lucknow, India, who is in Omaha for a short visit with his classmate, the Rev. E. L. Geissinger, 3194 Merideth avenue, and pastor of the Hirst M. E. church. For the past five years Insko has been guiding the destinies of the big publishing house owned by the Methodists. "Some time ao I heard two na tives talking," Mr. Insko said today. "One of them, in discussing prevail - ing high prices, declared 'before the war one could, buy a nice wife for 15 rupees, (a rupee is 33 cents) now, any kind costs 75 "Womanhood, except where na tives have been Christianized, counts for nothing in India. An American lady who came out to do missionary work attempted to be polite to ama tive and asked . him, 'how is your wife?" Wife Cost Five Rupees. ' "The native replied, 'My buffalo is fine, and my buffalo's calf is doing nicely, so is my wife.' " In America; said the missionary, 'the wife would be mentioned first. Why do you mention her last?' " 'Because,' said the native, 'my buffalo is worth 80 rupees and when her calf grows up it will be worth 80 rupees. My wife only cost five rupees and that was 30 years ago.' "Women are still kept in subjuga tion and obscurity, except among the verv low castes and Christians," Mr. Insko says. Purda women are still common in India. Purda means curtain and wives are always kept behind cur tains when visitors or men are in the house. Mr. Insko says nobody but the husbands ever gets a glimpse of the wives of high caste Hindoos. Purda Women Common. The servant problem is difficult in a way in India. Mr. Insko main tains six and they are paid from $3 to $4 a month. Because of their caste system a cook will not carry out dishes or sweep nor will a sweeper bear burd ens; likewise the man who tends t he garden refuses to tend the horses and the women who-look after the children 'will not dq. anything else. They are afraid of. getting . into .somebody else's territory, so to speak. The caste system from the highest to lowest is strictly adhered to, especially nioiig the uneducated. In 1918 Mr. Insko attended the Kunibh Mela, a religious conclave held every 12 years at Allahabad, situated on the Ganges. Here the natives go to wash away their sins in the sacred river. "I saw men who in their religious ' fervor had held their aims above' their heads until they grew in . that position. Another had held his fists clenched so long that his finger nails had grown through his hands and extended in great lengths through the backs. Another hung himself downward and thus extended swung himself through fire. He did this every two' hours. They believe that by such self-torture they are storing up favor in the world to come. Reptiles In Houses. "The Indians believe in the trans migration of souls. All sorts of snakes and animals run through the liouses. The natives won't kill them for fear they might be killing an an cestor whose soul has entered the bodies of the animals. "There is much political agitation in India. The two main factions are led by XJandhi the Hindoo leader who promulgates the nonco-opera-t-.on agitation. He incites all his followers to do all they can against the British government. The other leader is Mohammed Ali, who has no set policies except home rule. He advocates the withdrawal of the Dritish. "Wrhile there is much agitation against the British government, I find that the natives are far better off than when they were going it alone. To Return in Fall. Mr. Insko, his wife and two chil dren returned to America in March and will remain here, visiting in Ne braska and Iowa until fall when they will return. He will take back with him new printing equipment for his establishment. "Persons interested in missionary work need not feel that their work is in vain. Every place I have gone I have noticed the advancement made among the -natives who have been Christianized. Their villages are Residents of Lucknow, India, Visitors in Omaha f.T ."."v cleaner and the educational instiu tions are doing much to bring the natives out of their poverty and squalor. The British government recognizes the value of the mission aires and helps all it can. The mis sionaires are reallly the vanguard of civilization and are keeping India from sinking back into its former filth." Mr. Insko will lecture Sunday evening at the Hirst Memorial church. Muny Ice Station List Is Announced Six to Be Opened From 7 A. M. to Noon Seven From 1 to 6 P. M. Boy Bandits Are Dubbed 'Bad Men,' Sent to Kearney Judge Accuses Youths of Cam ouflaging Ages Confessed Holdup Denies Shooting at Woman. The following municipal ice sta tions will be open from 7 a. m. to 12 o'clock noon: Eighteenth and Vin ton, Twentieth and Missouri avenue, Twenty-fourth and Davenport, Ben son, Twenty-fourth and Blondo, Thirty-sixth and Grand avenue and 1 wenty-ninth and Woolworth. The following will be open from 1 to 6 p. m.: Eleventh and Dorcas, Twenty-fourth and O, Thirty-third and Tarker, Forty-third and Charles, Twenty-fourth and Locust, Twenty fourth and Camden avenue and Twenty-seventh and Jones. First ice was pulled yesterday noon from the addition o the municipal ice plant at Twentieth street and Poppleton avenue. This will give a combined capacity of 200 tons per day during the summer from this plant. There are 9,000 tons of ice in storage which will be drawn on dur ing the warm season. Last summer the municipal ice department, dis tributed as high as 350 tons per day. The charge for municipal ice is 30 cents per hundred pounds, or at the rate of 16 pounds for 5 cents . in smaller quantities. Aids to navigation are maintained on 47,192 miles of coast line and river channels by the United States lighthouse service. Two negro boys who held up Harry Dolgoff, 212 South Twelfth street, and struck him over the head with a lead pipe, were sent to Kear ney Industrial home yesterday by Judge Sears. They are Claude Cooley, 1615 North Thirty-second street and Rob ert Walter, 2118 North Twenty eighth street, each of whom gave his age as 15. 1 Never 16 Again. "Neither of you will ever see 16 again, you're only trying to keep out of the penitentiary," the judge ad dressed at them. Walter freely admitted the hold up, but balked at Dolgoff's story that he had struck him hree times. "That ain't true, judge" he pro tested indignantly. I only struck him twice." Branded "Bad Men. Cooley likewise denied he shot at Mrs. Anna Kyte, who lives across the street from the Dolgoff store and ran to the man's defense. "I didn't shoot. I had the gun in my hand and it just went off," he stated. "You're bad and dangerous men; we'll put you where you won't harm anybody until you're 21, anyway," said the judge. W. J. Hislop Falls From 12-Ft. Ladder, Skull Is Fractured W. T. Hislop, heading superinten dent tor the McCague Investment company, lies at his home, 3132 l-owler avenue, suffering a slight fracture of the skull as the result of a fall from the top step of a 12-foot ladder to the cement floor, of. the Crosstown' garage, Twenty-fourth and Leavenworth streets. Hislop was working with some pipes at the ceiling when he lost his balance and fell. Huhby's Other Wife Not Dead, Present Mate Says The marriage of Cleo Henderson and Felton L. Henderson, which took place October 12, 1920, at Minden, Neb.," was annulled by District Judge Wakeley yesterday on her petition. She declared that his former wife,. Lydia I. Landon Henderson " to whom he was marred in Detroit in 1909 is stilk living. Omaha Bank Clearing Bank clearings for the week end-' ing Mav 21 show an increase of more than $2,000,000 over those of last week, which were $35,331,575.32. For the same week last year the clearings were $38,863,80ie3. Mary Jordan Famous Contralto who appears in concert Tuesday eve ning, May 24th, at the Brandeis theater, under the auspices of the American Legion, has expressed her preference for and is using . The Stein way the greatest , piano produced at the present age. The STEINWAY is the choice instrument of most all the world famous musicians of the present and past generations. Such artists at Lurt,' Rubenstein, Paderewiki, Herman, 4oseffy, Bloomfield-Ziesler, Schuman Heink, Johanna Gadski, and' more re cently, Rachmaninhoff with a host of others, are only soloists in the great popular chorus of Steinway praise. 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Musical Scandal To Be Staged at Den Monday Eve 3,000 Oniahans to Witness Opening of Show Bait for Fights and Rag-Chewing Provided. "Those Profit Tears" or "A Mid summer Knight's Scream" is the title of the musical scandal in four acts and one tableau at the Ak-Sar-Bcn Den this year, according to an edict issued yesterday by Samson and signed by the board of Ak-Sar-Ben governors. ' ' Fully 3.000 business, professional and tradesmen of Omaha will wit ness the opening of the show at the Den next Monday night.i according to Charles Gardner, secretary to Samson. Bait for Fight. Preceding the singing riot, a num ber of initiatory stunts will furnish bait for lights and rag-chewing matches, it is promised, Police Com missioner Henry Dunn in charge of the paraphernalia has promised a cordon of police to settle matters. Big changes are in store for the, knights of Ak-Sar-Ben this year, Gus Rcnze, artificer, declares. The old bulldog, Kitch, is no more. . Renze declared .the animal ven tured into the menagerie of the Den once too often. One of the wild cats broke loose from her caffe anJ Kitch didn't recognize her until . Has Some Fun. Oscar Lichen, who has hcen teach ing a class in hurdle jumping -since Christmas, is having the fun of his young life. Several of the ponicj have learned, to jump as high as Oscar himself. The bulk of the responsibilities of the . blood-curdling drama rests on Marcus Nieisen, Frank I.atenser, Lawrence Dodds, E. H. Strickler, George ' Long, Bradley Roe and Mickey Gibson. 4,000 Cases of Whisky Arc . Taken on Forged Permits Louisville, Ky., May 21. Four thousand' cases of whisky, valued at more than $300,000 hase been with drawn from three Kentucky distillery free warehouses on forged permits within the last, six weeks, it was an nounced . at the office of F.lwood Hamilton, collector of inrer'nal reve nue for Kentucky here today. The permits came from Pennsylvania. . Negro Identified for Part ... In Two Omaha Burglaries Ernest Stewart, negro, who was ar rested yesterday by Detectives Bu- ford, Trapp and Munch, yesterday was identified as being implicated in the robbery of the Sherman-McCon-ncll Drug company and the home of A. E. Shaver, 1419 North Nineteenth street. More than $200 worth of merchan dise was taken from the drug store. Summer Tourist Tfatp in. Minnesota and Wisconsin J Summer tourist rates to Minnesota and Wisconsin points beyond the Twin Cities will be inaugurated again this summer by the Chicago Great Western railroad, according to an an nouncement yesterday by Marshall B. Craig, general manager of the pas senger department. These summer rates will he on the. basis of 75 per cent of the regular tariff fares. 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