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HUT OF THE CHIEF, OR HEAD MAN, OF A NAGA VILLAGE (SEE PAGE 55) 



The large basket suspended from the projecting roof is used for measuring grain. Photo from "Women 

 of All Nations," Cassell & Co., New York, by courtesy of Mrs. Frank Wilde 



WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS 



The following article is abstracted from a fascinating work recently published 

 by Cassell & Company, entitled "Women of All Nations — their characteristics, 

 habits, manners, customs, and influence/' in two very profusely illustrated volumes. 

 The editors of the book, T. Athol Joyce and N . W . Thomas, Fellozi's of the Royal 

 Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, were assisted by 20 eminent authorities. 

 The late O. T. Mason and Walter Hough contribute the chapters on the Eskimo 

 and North American Indians; Clivc Holland describes the women of France and 

 of Japan; Mrs. Frank Wilde, the unknown peoples of Assam; Miss Ella C. Sykes, 

 the ladies of Persia, and other well-known writers who have written chapters are 

 Lady Ramsay, Annette M. B. Meakin, Alice Werner, W. W. Skcat, Theodct 

 Koch Grunbcrg, and A. R. Colquhoun. 



SINCE man rose above the lowest 

 grade of savagery, if not ever since 

 the world began, woman has been 

 the theme of poets, the model of artists 

 and sculptors, and the despair of the 

 male sex generally. 



Taking a broad view of history, we 

 may say that in one aspect it is the story 



of how woman has ceased to be the slave 

 of man, as she is among the peoples on 

 the lowest planes of culture, and has be- 

 come his helpmeet. 



European taste looks chiefly at beauty 

 of form and feature, and, other things 

 being equal, color — be it black, brown, or 

 red — does not obscure the perception of 



