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Show PUTS DAMPER ON PROP08AL8 Indignities Heaped Upon the Bridegroom-Elect In China. Women are constantly complaining thnt eligible men show a most uncompromising uncom-promising deslro to remain 'single Instead In-stead of .selecting a wife. It Is, therefore, there-fore, a good thing that tho samo conditions con-ditions do not prevail In England as In some paits of China, or tho probability prob-ability is that not ono in a thousand would ever take a woman "for bettor or for worse." In these Celestlnl regions tho bridegroom-elect has to submit to being dressed up by his friends lu any sort of costume they like, and thus habited they accompany him in state through tho streets of tho town. Perhaps In thnt part of tho world men aro overanxious over-anxious to bo married, and everything which can possibly bo dono to lnduco them to remain single until they arrive ar-rive at a more maturo ago has to bo resorted to. It is another case of all being fair in lovo nnd war, and no doubt the Chinaman who Is shouting to-day as bo accompanies his friend knows full well thnt next week he may bo tho bridegroom-elect, and so tho punishment punish-ment is robbed of much of its terror. Woman's Life. |