HOW MARRIAGE BEGAN.
LONDON, April 21.—Mr Justice Darling in a caso delivered a little homily on marriage, in which tho following aphorisms occurred: Chastisement might be rebuke or finding fault with a wife’s ways, and not beating her with a stick. Marriage began with a capture of a woman.
A “bestman” went with a man when he made up his mind to carry off a woman.
He did not know that it had beon tho law of England that a woman was the Srty, a chattel, belonging to the nd, but that the husband had certain power over her was undoubted.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16176, 12 July 1923, Page 6
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