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Show A writer iu a wcman'B lii-h! journal hae found another caiio fcr . complaint, nud this ia nothing kra than Vio custom of giving tho briJi ; away at tho marriage ceremony. i1 . She Bay a "no woman of proper t-oif- rcepect will submit to bo giveu away." Tho writer deolares thut tho cu?tom ia a rclio of thr.- old opinion thit daughters wero e Lives or ch.it it 1j of tho fdther, who hid the rilit to sll thorn or give thorn to any euilur who pleased him, the girl'a likca and dii-; dii-; likes not being taken into considers ! tioo. Not until the tenth century j did tho women of England acquiro ' tho right of choaing husbnnd, and ; the women of other European coun- tries wore not granted thia privilege ' until much later. Iu aomo of the eflBtorn govcrumenta parents now soleot husbands for their daughters, ' 1 withe ul even consulting the latter. |