MARRIAGE REFORM ASSOCIATION.

West Coast Times, Issue 3218, 18 January 1876, Page 2

MARRIAGE REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Tfie memblrs-of-tEe Marriaii |J£ Association.:^ fauneain cerfSroll affisSto transact their business in a-ver/ private way one. of the staff of SI Saturday Advertiser, managed to gain access to its first meeting, and this is JL£ he sayß s ayBy 8 on the subject :--« A lar^e number of influential ladie^niet th_e, other eve ?>ng in J>«nedin, fpr r th_e purpose of taW into consideration the advisability of establishing a Marriage Reform Association. We have been requested^ to; make.thttnainel of those present public in the meantime but we trust to-bedn a position! sKoftly to give our readers, every J 4nfbrmatiqn,on the subject. The chairwoman, in opening the proceedings, stated that the time hadarnved when_ the., sensible ladi_e_B_ of_thiacity should take a determined stand against: the tomfoolery, absurd pomp, and useless: expenditure which now obtained on the occasion of a wedding* The Funeral Reform Association has accomp]js Q ed a- -vast amount of good by the action it has takem in, expo^og the absurdity of hearses., ,aa4 mourners, and plumes, , and pallss and if the ladies of this city were true to theiriOTOt interests, they would sbo*v thejij^oQ^ sense by setting their faces agates^, |he cost and extravagaqee connected witri the marriage caremony. People could be united in . wedlock by- < a clergyman without dressing, themselves up like show-folk in gew-gaws and. orange blossoms. . She — the chairwoman — for one, was determined to set her face against such nonsense^ and trusted -her friends present, would form a combination to put a stop to SHch stupidity- .After a very animated and livdly discussion, in which several ladies took part, it was unanimously resolved :— * That the ladies present form themselvesjnto a society to be called the Marriage Reform : Association, -the object of .which will be to .counteract and oppose the useless, pomp] and senseless fineryj antf the. absurd extravagance which atpreseni disfigure the ceremony of, marriage. A committee of ladies was then* formed for th^tpurposer.-qf, framing/ rules fiir the guidance of the proposed association," . s'>