Show PUTS DAMPER ON PROPOSALS indignities leaped heaped 1 upon the bride groom elect in china women are constantly complaining that eligible men show a most uncompromising promis hig desire to remain single in cread of if selecting a wife it Is ia therefore a good thing that the same conditions do not prevail in en england 0 land as in some parts of china or the probability is that not one in a thousand would ever take a woman for better or for worse jn in these celestial re gior the bride groom elect has to submit to being dressed up by his friends in in any sort of costume they like and thus habited they compan accompany ac him in state through the streets of the town perhaps in that tha part of the world men are overanxious to be married and everything 0 which can possibly be done to induce them to remain single until they artive arrive at a more mature a age ae 0 e has to be resorted to it is another case of all being 0 fal fair r in love and war and no doubt the Clif chinaman naman who is shouting today to day as lie he accompanies his friend knows f ull full well that next week he may be the bridegroom elect and so the punishment is robbed of much of its terror womans comans Wo mans life |