PRICE OF A WIFE.
Some serious meetings of Mohammedans have been held at Kosovska Mitrovitsa to determine the minimum amount to be>paid by a bridegroom in these lijird times to the family of the bride for her trousseau. Formerly a minimum of nearly 200 dollars was obligatory, but it has now been officially decided to reduce this amount to one quarter. Belgrade has always disapproved of this Mohammedan custom of paying for wives, but among Orthodox Yugoslavs there is 110 indication yet of a tendency to the fees paid for husbands by the families of prospective brides I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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98PRICE OF A WIFE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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