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Show Tokyo Girls Object to Marriage Customs Tokyo. The modern Japanese girl a canvass at a girls' high school disclosed dis-closed does not favor the present-day system under which most of the marriages mar-riages are "arranged." In opposition to the prevailing mode, fifty-three girls in one school said that to marry men of whom they had no previous knowledge was dangerous-Sixteen dangerous-Sixteen were opposed because the custom cus-tom ignores the sentlwents of the ones 1 to be married. Ten objected to the use of a go-between to make arrangements arrange-ments and all agreed that the marriage mar-riage question should be more seriously serious-ly considered. Ranking preferences for husbands were, government officials first and then, in order, business men, educators, educa-tors, fa"mcrs, physicians and army officers. |