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ABOUT MARRIAGE.

WHY NOT ENQUIRE

BEFOREHAND?

of any man who wished to marry into the household.

"But to-day the average father] ↓ leaves it to his daughter to make

these inquiries herself. She very rarely does so, for where a woman loves, she trusts, and she would It should be compulsory for regard it as an insult to the man! every married man to wear to ask him about his past life. wedding ring." said Miss Damer

"Indeed, the girl of to-day is Dawson, chief of the women extraordinarily casual on the sub- police, to a Daily Chronicle ject of marriage. representative recently.

Here is an example. One of Miss Damer Dawson is in full the girls in whom we of the agreement with Mr. Cecil Chap-women police are interested was man's suggestion that every about to marry a sailor with whom marriage should be preceded by a she appeared to be very much in court of inquiry.

love. However, the sailor went "A court of inquiry before mar-off on a six months voyage with- riage would be a great help. Once out making a farowell. a man or woman has produced sailor's brother then proposed to satisfactory evidence of fitness the girl, and she accepted him. for marriage, however, I do not think the arrangements for the ceremony should be made more difficult. In fact, they ought to be little easier.

"I know cases of men who are anxious to marry women with whom they have lived, but it is not always easy for them to fulfil the conditions of residence demanded. and the cost of a special licence or a heavy railway fare to the girl's home is beyond them.

*Divorce should also be made .. casier.

The

He'll do just as well as his 'I don't brother,' she said to me. really much mind which of them I marry."

That is characteristic of the girl of to-day."

MALARIA NEAR PETERBOROUGH.

Fletton urban district, on the borders Peterborough, has been asked to make war on mosquitoes by the medical officer of health. It appears that a lad aged 11 had "Mr. Chapman talks of the been infected with malaria, al- many honourable men who have though he had never been out of :committed bigamy with high district. The boy's blood was ex- motives. Well, there is an even amined and it was found that a greater number of honourable disease-carrying mosquito had bitten him. The disase is spread women who commit bigamy.

"Think of the position of a by mosquitoes bitting infected man persons-there being eight cases woman who is married to a who leads a persistently immoral among ex-soldiers in the district- life. She candot divorce him and then bitting someone else. These men now have mosquito If netting. The doctor has asked

unless he 10 also guilty of cruelty or desertion. she meets another man who

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that all, breeding places of

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and goes with him to Canada or

wishes to marry her she accepts mosquitoes should be destroyed.

the United States in the hope that

in a new country she will be able

to forget her past unhappy life.

"It is a little late in the day to talk of prevention of bigamous marriages with overseas soldiers. I believe that where these "wives go out to the Dominions and it is discovered that the man is already married the woman is sent home to England, as is only fitting.

But, of course, bigamy is a problem of peace as much as it was problem of war. If it is to be prevented in future there should be some preliminary in- quiries before marriage. It is difficult for a woman to conceal her marriage, for on every kind of legal document, and in making application for work, she has to state whether she is married, a widow, or spinster. A man is under no such obligation.

"I think that parents are very lax in making inquiries," Miss Damer Dawson added.

Years

agus father made it his business to inquire into the diroumstances

DOINGS OF THE DUFFS.

WELL PANSY I UNDERSTAND YOU I SKO COULDN'T TOOK A VACATION WHILE WE WERE FEEL QUY BETTAN||

AMIAN - IM GLAD YOU DID AND HOPE Į MISSUS DUFF IF YOU HAD A GOOD TIME AND ARE

I HAD A BIG FEELING FINE DRONK OF GIN-

A VACATION AM A TOUK

TO PARSY-

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DEADLY RAT SCOURGE,

CAMPAIGN OF PREVENTION.

Our leading scientific authority. on rats, Mr. M.AC. Hinton, has ia preparation at the British Museum (Natural... History section) an exhibit by which the trustees hope to roase our muni: cipal authorities, and the nation at large, to a sense of the public peril that is involved in the existing and increasing numbers of those vermin.

To a representative of the Daily Chronicle Mr. Hinton said

"People commonly base their pleas for the extermination of rats on the loss caused by them to our food supplies, and obvious'y that loss represents an annual value of many millions of pounds sterling.

"But the loss of food is com- paratively of little moment: the consideration of overwhelming importance is the danger involved i to human lifa. Take this tremen- dous fact: rats have killed 12,000,000 people in India since 1900.

"The matter does not end with the heavy mortality caused by plague in India and other conn- tries (and, mind. another Plague of London, which was undoubted- ly the work of rats and mice, might occur at any time).

"It may now publicly be stat- eb," continued Mr. Hinton, "that rats were responsible for the trench fever from which Qur soldiers suffered. Rats are pro- bably responsible also-proof is not yet forthcoming-for the spread of influenza.

Rats and mice are the prin cipal agents in the dissemination of trichinosis: they are also under conviction as regards. foot-and- mouth disease, swine ferct, and dysentry."

"Are you satisfied with the measures that we are taking against the rat?"

"By no means." replied Mr. Hinton. Just as the public mind misstates the main mischief as a food loss, so it misstates the re- medy as destruction. It is im- peratively, necessary to employ rat-catchers, and to take all other available steps. for reducing the

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"At the age of eight weeks a rat may have young, and there is nothing uncommon in ten at a litter and six litters in a year. In the long run the numbers of rats are determined by the amount of available food and shelter.

**The cation must take system- atic measures to restrict the available food and shelter. Granaries, barns, restaurants, and all other food stores must be made absolutely rat-proof, refuse must be systematically destroyed, drains must be protected, ships must be fumigated, and adequate measures must be taken in the case of railwayɛ, docks and quays.

Rucker has stated that a pair of rats are theoretically capable years of producing in five 940,369,960,152 rats. And a Lon- don authority is said to have been destroying vermin at a cost of Is. 8.343. per rat!"

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