Show EJECT TO BEING CHATTELS Women of Formosa Demand the Abolition Abolition tion of the System of Engagement Engage ment mont Money Formosan women are demanding the abolition of engagement mOlle money paid pahl by the suitors to their theil families nt ot the tulle time of marriage contract ct They re re- refuse refuse fuse to consider themselves live stock and decline marriage without personal consent and with a brI bridegroom of decent und and sufficient education Most lost Formosan marriages are arranged on err the basis of the desirability of the engagement money moncy and the tIle bride- bride to-be to has tins little to say ay about the matter S1 says S a writer The Formosa os III ns 8 are pol polygamists But ut it Is s saId that if engagement mone money does riot not decrease denease soon the habit of plural marriages will decrease too because because be he- heI I cause very ery few men can afford ufford to purchase purchase pur pur- purI I chase more than one wife at present high prices The Ille Fo Chinese women before before be be- fore marriage are remarkably chaste It is Is said sail that her virtue Is carefully protected by hJ even the commonest woman heil because use on it depends her value val vat ue tte a as J n a bride But Hut owing to the pot polygamous g- g amous system the the married women are fire not lIot so sn chaste haste and Hul It is said that the winks at tit lapses of ot his vi wi o v II |