"POLL PARROT AFFAIR."
' a - - THE oiaßsioN'sr.dF KAEBIAGB. >•{ »'!■'••"*■';» ; '• • r I -','.'.',.'.'". ''>: a'•■■/ '•- New Yoee, Juno 18. *. ... J* a spoflQjj before the Woman's Suffrage Association in Philadelphia, the'president,; 5 %i Pr.. Anna Shaw, declared that the marriage l outlived its usefulness, and should be relegated to oblivion. "For . . 9110 thing," she went on' to say," it is a 7' poll parrot aflair. Trie method of recitmg s:-:,• r&tjyf plcdga is- ridiculous, to say the least. I have ajvrays believed to. making the cere- .' ; .',mffuy : fit i£a .locution. I would have a .'. :.■■, -djficrent service for each marriage. As 7: .< for the wdirdl.'pboy, I bad only one girl who wanted to make such a crazy promise She insisted that there was only one thing "'""for 1 ino to do, so I refused to marry her, *£ and she had to take her bridegroom to i.:... anotl"» minister:- No woman obeys' her husband, and no man oi common sense asks „ , lus wifo to obey. It is spiritually and morally wrong to encourage a woman to ' •* •■ Biake' a promise which she knows in her r heart she will not keep. She becomes a ■ M -• fool and a perjurer at the same time."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15646, 27 June 1914, Page 10
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