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COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE.

HOW IT WORKS IN PERSIA.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES.

INTOLERANT FREE THINKERS.

CALL FOR RELIGIOUS PER- ́SECUTION IN FRANCE..

MEASURE THAT WOULD MAKE ALSACE FIGHT"

Pants, August. Companionate marriage may be a.

To meet the growing sentiment recent innovation in Western coun

favouring the relaxing of laws tries. But among the Sunni Mogoverning religious orders, the lems in Persia a husband or a wife Free Thinkers of France, in a con- gress held at Rheims, adopted a has always been able to dissolva a

platform of eleven planks which union if one or the other finds that would practically abolish there

maining vestiges of the Catholic the marriage is a failure..

This interesting fact on the so-church in France, pays a United

Press message. called progressiveness of a suppos- edly primitive people came out in an interview with Marguerite Har- rison; who recently completed an intensive study of the East for a new book she is writing. For years the lived among Orientals of whom But most Americans are in awe. she says that the sheiks have their own taste for beauty, and they have an aversion for blondes, so that

are in no "foreigners" danger whatsoever unless they bring along some of their. Western arrogance. In that ease they are no safer anywhere else.

Coming back to the Sunni Mos- lems:

Like the men of most ancient tribes, she said, they may have four wives at once. But they may have a good many more during their lifetime if one displeases and. a new dusky lady finds grace in his eyes. When his fancy turns to the other, he does from one exactly what the exponents of com panionate marriage recommended. He divorces each as he finds her getting on his nerves.

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Ever since the war there has been increased agitation for the lifting Annual Meeting Hong Kong of the severe laws of 1903 which Boxing Association, 6.30 p.m. drove many priests and nuns from

Violin Recital by Cecilia Hansen, the church Theatre Royal, 0.15 p.m. France separated from the State. fact that 15,000 priests served with valour in the French armies had much to do with the change of sentiment.

The

The Free Thinkers view this ten dency with alarm. They stand for the rigid application of the separa- tion laws and object that under M. Poincare, Mr. Herriot, and M. Briand, in recent governments, the eye of the law has been closed to many violations.

At Rheims, they adopted the fol- lawing programme zem

of the 1.-The

suppression national Joan of Arc fete.

2-Nuns be driven out of hos pitals, which must become civil.

3-The pay of army and hospital chaplains be discontinued...

4. The suppression of "derpra- tions.

-The application of the latc laws of Alsace, entr

6.The rigid application of the Separation Law.

7-The amnesty of all political prisoners.

The abolition of the Haley circular authorizing the refer the religious orders to rente

The suppression of the post of chaplain aboard liners and the for- bidding of the wearing of the

"A man's prerogative in the matter is definite and indisputable He tan divorce one wife every year, if he likes. Now, so far as the wife in concerned, it's her privilege, too, to get rid of her spouse if sha know enough to stipulate it in the marriage contract. Unfortunately, the illiterate ones don't assert 10. Forbidding the collection of themselves to their fullest rightfunds for churches and orders. They are like other illiterate wo- men all over the world, who live in ignorance of the privileges they can claim.

What Educated Brides Gan Do” "But the educated brides, or their well-informed mothers, see to it that they, too, can enforce a separation if the marriage isn't a success from their point of view. If the husband of such a wife dis- pleases her, she can appeal to the court and obtain a divorce. And her argument need be no stronger than the wishes her marriage dis- solved."

Marguerite Harrison said that a comic situation sometimes arises be- tween coupler nearing a divorce? By stafe regulations the Moslems

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11-The application of the bache lors tax to priests and nans

The fifth-plank alone would be sufficient to stir up civil war for Alance appears determined to guard her Catholicism, her schools, taught by nugs and her domination of Church in civic affairs. The whole campaign for the nationalization of Alsace, waged by the Autonomists, is based on fear that the Paris Government will attempt to apply the separation law to Alsace.

["MARRIAGE" VOID AFTER

22 YEARS.

have no ecclesiastical ceremonies SHOCK FOR WOMAN AND HER supplementing the civil) there is

a lapse of 30 days between the date of application and the granting of the interlocutory decree.

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CHILDREN.

Annie Feldman, of Howland- street, Tottenham Court-road, ap-. peared at Marlborough-street in support of her application against Hyman Feldman, a tailor, for a maintenance order for herself and her two children..

Here are the possibilities of the ridiculous circumstances: If the woman should bear a child within that perind of time, the infant's paternity isn't 499n questioned, but the husband is responsible for it

The woman alleged that 22 years for the same term of years that a father supports his child. He must age Feldman brought a religious private room in Birs it his name and social posi-man into a tion. And no one dare cast alper-Wardour-street, Bobo, and she went sions on mother and child, because through a form of marrings with they are under the protection of Feldman. They had been living the low

apart for the last four years, and he had allowed her £9:55, a week until last Christmas

Feldman denied that he went through any marriage ceremony with the woman.

The dowry question is reversed among the Moslems. Men pay for And sums vary just their wives. as they vary in other parts of the world.

The Dowry.

"If a man wants to marry a girl who is very young and beautiful," abe said, he must offer enough to outde his rivals. Nothing unique

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Mr. Mead, the magistrate, held that there was no marriage. Cases, he said, were known where people had been married by a man who wore a surplice, but who in reality

or, especially Eastern about that was not a clergyman at all, He Don't European and American dismissed the maintenance sum- parents compete with marriage mons, holding that the two children partions to win the most desirable were illegitimate, and ordered

heir girls?

But Feldman to pay £1 a week for each busbands for their among the Moslems the recipient child until they were 18. has the right to it the rest of her If she throws it into house- life... hold goods, the full sum must be refunded to her if her husband diyorces her. The dowry is hers for keeps, and she taken it with her when her husband sends her out of hia house."4

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At a district court-martial at Aldershot Rifleman Robert: Vietor Cook, of the 1st Battalion Royal Ulster Biles, was charged with self-mutilation by cutting off the middle finger of his right hand and mutilating the index finger of the same hand with a bread-knife

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As a rule they are not," Mar- discriminated against in behalf of guerite Harrison said. "The wo a favourite wife. Theoretically and men don't usually marry for love, obviously, all-wives must be treat so it doesn't matter much to themed equally. And if a husband only upon whom the husband bestows uses discretion in adorning them his affections, especially after a alike, ba may love one to his heart's An content so far as the other wives woman bas her children. (Continued at foot of next cut are concerned.

Medical Corps, said it was possible that while in a fit Cook could have so injured himself, and Cook's medical sheet showed that he had suffered from headaches and de pressions.

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