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370 DIVISION OF PROPERTY.
females, on which they make their seats from
fear of the damp from the mud floor ; but they
complain that these accommodations are not
half so comfortable as their ordinary seat.
The division of personal property between
married people has the effect of rendering the
wife much more independent than the married
lady of other countries. The plan is a judi-
cious one in the existing state of Mussulmaun
society, for since the husband could at his
pleasure add other wives, the whole property
of the first wife might be squandered on these
additions. In the middling classes of society,
and where the husband is a religious person,
this division of property is not so strictly main-
tained ; yet every wife has the privilege, if
she choose to exercise it, of keeping a pri-
vate purse, which the good wife will produce
unasked to meet her husband's emergencies;
and which the good husband is never known to
demand, however great may be his necessities.
There are many traits of character in the Mus-
sulmaun world that render them both amiable
and happy, wherever politeness of behaviour is
females, on which they make their seats from
fear of the damp from the mud floor ; but they
complain that these accommodations are not
half so comfortable as their ordinary seat.
The division of personal property between
married people has the effect of rendering the
wife much more independent than the married
lady of other countries. The plan is a judi-
cious one in the existing state of Mussulmaun
society, for since the husband could at his
pleasure add other wives, the whole property
of the first wife might be squandered on these
additions. In the middling classes of society,
and where the husband is a religious person,
this division of property is not so strictly main-
tained ; yet every wife has the privilege, if
she choose to exercise it, of keeping a pri-
vate purse, which the good wife will produce
unasked to meet her husband's emergencies;
and which the good husband is never known to
demand, however great may be his necessities.
There are many traits of character in the Mus-
sulmaun world that render them both amiable
and happy, wherever politeness of behaviour is