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says Vrčević, as quoted by Professor W. I. Thomas,
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Their popular proverbs corroborate this, as for example:
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He who does not beat his wife is no man.
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Strike a wife and a snake on the head.
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One devil is afraid of the cross, the other (the wife) of a stick.
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The dog may howl, but the wife must hold her tongue. In one wedding-song the bride begs her husband:
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Strike your wife only with good cause and when she has greatly vexed you. In another folk-song the young wife sings:
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What sort of husband are you to me? You do not pull my hair, nor do you strike me!
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No wonder the Slav mother averages eight children! No wonder there is an appalling infant mortality, while a childbed death is too often the fate of the forspent mother. Little cares the stolid peasant. What is the woman there for? Nor is this view strange in the New World. In Hungary the Slovak women
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But the annual child arrives likewise in the Slovak families of New York. The Slav wife in this country bears from two to two and a half times as fast as the wife of American parentage. Her daughter born under the Stars and Stripes is seven-eighths as prolific as her barefoot immigrant mother. The average Slavic charity case involves five persons, the German or Scandinavian case four persons, the American case three and one-half persons. A drunken Pole said with pride to the agent of a charitable society that was supporting his family:
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Just think what I've done for the State! I've given it ten children!
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The Irish for children,