MODERN BETROTHALS.
A JUDGE’S COMMENT. London, January 4. The president of a French Court at Paris, giving judgment in a breach of promise case yesterday, delivered a homily on modern betrothals. 'Marriage, he said, no longer responded to the conception of the ceremony in former times. Then it was based on mutual love; to-day it was simply a financial contract. The real reason for the modern marriage was money; the man looked for a dowry and the woman for a protector. ft was regrettable, continued the President, sarcastically, that young couples did not draw up a formal contract the moment their engagement was sealed, with a clause enuemerating the penalties which might be enforced in the event of the contract being broken.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 11, 11 January 1913, Page 7
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