CHINESE BRIDES, SUICIDES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 305, 21 December 1912, Page 17

CHINESE BRIDES , SUICIDES.

A BID FOE FREEDOM OF CHOICE.

An Increasing number of the young *onwn of China are preferring death rather P«> marriage under tbe existing laws. locng girls j oin sa ],-ide clubs, and pledge themselves not to live the married life which the customs of the country prescribe. ' me °iher cannot persuade her parents to her free rboioe of a husband, and J™«o!n from marriage until she finds one J° her taste, she allows the marriage which a er parents have arranged for her to take **«■ At the end of three days she is U-owed to pay a risit tn her mother, and lT afl herself of this opportunity to comsuicide. The number of such suicides is OswißE the attention nf the new Repnblia Government to the question of the revi- *-"> of tte marriage laws, and it is possible ™st some change may be effected in the n «ar fatnre. But the Government has recently had its hands pretty well occupied Staring order. Nevertheless, the geneJM imprtvrement which hns been going on °>b education of the Chinese woman J* "Wnd sooner or later to be reflected in "•* laws.