DIVORCES OF THE WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8062, 1 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

DIVORCES OF THE WORLD.

The following particulars as to the methods of securing divorces in different countries are interesting:— j Siamese. The first wife may be divorced, not sold, as the others may be. She then may claim the first, third, and fifth child, and the alternate children are yielded to the husband. , Arctic Region.—When a man desires a , divorce he leaves the house in anger and does not return forseveral days. The wife understands the hint, packs her clothes, and leaves. Tartars.—Toe husband may put away his partner and seek another when it pleases him, and tho wife may do the same. _ If she be ill-treated she complains to the magistrate, who, attended by the,princial people, accompanies her to the house and pronounces a formal divorce. Chinese. —Divorces are allowed in all case of criminality, mutual dislikes, jealousy, incompatibility of temper, or too much loquacity on the part of the wife. The husband cannnt sell his wife until she leaves him and becomes a slave to him by action of the law for desertion. A son is bound to divorce his wife if she displeases his parents. Jews.—ln olden time the Jews had a discretionary power of divorcing their wives. Javans.—lf the wife be dissatisfied, she can obtain a divorce by paying a certain sum Thibetans.—Divorces are seldom allowed unless with the consent of both parties— neither of whom can afterwards re-marry. Mooas.— If the wife becomes the mother of a boft she may be divorced with the consent of the tribe, and she can marry again. _ Abvssinians. —No form of marriage is necessary. The connection may be dissolved and renewed as often as tho parties think proper. . _ , Siberians.— the man be _ dissatisfied with the most trifling acts of his wife, he tears her cap or veil from her head, and this constitutes a divorce. Corea.ns. —The husband can divorce hiii wife, and leave her the charge of maintaining the children. If she proves unfaithful, he can put her to death. Drdse and Turkomkw,— Among theaa people, if awife asks her husband's permission to go out, and he says "Go," without adding, " but corns back again," she is divorced. Though both parties desire it, they cannot live together without being remarried. Cochin-Chinese.—if the parties choose to separate, they break a pair of chopsticks or a copper coin in the presence of witnesses, by which action the union is dissolved. The husband must restore to the wife the property belonging to her prior to her marriage. American Indians.—Among some tribes the pieces of stick given the witnesses of the marriage are burnt as a sign ol! divorce. Usually new connections are formed without the old ones being dissolved. A man never divorces his wife if she has borne him sons.