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Show PUTS DAMPER ON PROPOSALS Indignities Heaped Upon the Bridegroom-Elect in China. Women are constantly complain' g that eligible men show a most uncompromising uncom-promising desire to remain single instead in-stead of selecting a wife. It is, therefore, there-fore, a good thing that the same conditions con-ditions do not prevail in England as in some parts of China, or the probability prob-ability is that not one in a thousand woti-'C ever take a woman "for better or for worse." In these Celestial regions the bridegroom-elect has to submit to being dressed up by his friends in any sort of costume they like, and thus habited they accompany him in state through the streets of the town. Perhaps in that part of the world men are overanxious over-anxious to be married, and everything which can possibly be done to induce them to remain single until they arrive ar-rive at a more mature age has to be resorted, to. It is another case of all being fair In love and war, and no doubt the Chinaman who Is shouting to-day as he accompanies his friend knows full veil that next week he may be the bridegroom-elect, and so the punishment punish-ment is robbed of much of its terror. Woman's Life. |