woman-folk

Updated: June 21, 2025

It required the sexes to live in separate houses. It did not allow people to eat in either house; they must eat in another place. It did not allow a man's woman-folk to enter his house. It did not allow the sexes to eat together; the men must eat first, and the women must wait on them. Then the women could eat what was left if anything was left and wait on themselves.

Mark Twain - Following the Equator — Part 1