According to the • New York Nation/ the very advanced women of America are striking 1 out some exceeding ly bold and startling views on social topics. We learn that the great Mrs Cady Sraunton will now be content with nothing short of the emancipation of the sex from marriage as, it is. The arrangement to be substituted for the vulgar old custom is to be limited matrimony, the contract between a lady and gentleman expiring in three years from the da.c of entering into it. Tt may, however, be renewed for the triennial period by mutual consent, [f such a complication as a baby should arise duriagthe (interval, the lady, on retiring from her I engagement, is to take- charge' of it, the father paying for Tfifbqard.
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Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 353, 1 February 1871, Page 3
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