The Millions 1898 . ed, and said she did not believe inJesus, and that she could not BE BOTHERED To BRING UP A GIRL for someone else to use. For among thepoor people in China, as soon as a girl is old enough to be of much use, she is sentaway to the house of her mother-in-law, andbecomes her servant. Sometimes, when two very poor women,who already have sons, each have a littledaughter born, they will exchange the girlsat once, because they think it a cheap andeasy way of getting wives for their sonswhen they are old enough to marry; and,in the meantime, each of the mothers will ceremony, unles
The Millions 1898 . ed, and said she did not believe inJesus, and that she could not BE BOTHERED To BRING UP A GIRL for someone else to use. For among thepoor people in China, as soon as a girl is old enough to be of much use, she is sentaway to the house of her mother-in-law, andbecomes her servant. Sometimes, when two very poor women,who already have sons, each have a littledaughter born, they will exchange the girlsat once, because they think it a cheap andeasy way of getting wives for their sonswhen they are old enough to marry; and,in the meantime, each of the mothers will ceremony, unless her parents are too poorto support her. If they are very poor, sheis sent at once to her mother-in-laws house,and becomes her servant, only revisiting herown home for a short time before the wed-ding. The miseries of the poor, little daugh-ters-in-law under such circumstances arefrequently beyond description, and they oftentry to kill themselves, partly to escape fromtheir sufferings, and partly because they think. MISS GUEX AM) TW have a girls help in the house, with no moretrouble or expense than if she had kept herown child. No doubt this sounds very strange to you,but in China the wife is always bought byher husbands family, and the transactionusually takes place while both are quiteyoung. When this is the case, the childrenare only betrothed at first, hut the betrothal,with the signing of papers ami exchange ofpresents, is just as binding as From that time the girl belongs to herhusbands family, though she usually livesat home till the time comes for the marriage then ghost- will be able to haunt and punishthe cruel mothers-in-law. In respectable families the girls are Usuallyallowed to live, hut there is not very muchhappiness lor them, though occasionally youfind a home where the girls are kindly andfairly treated, and in rare cases they are evenpetted by both parents. But these are onlythe exceptions which prove the rule, andgenerally there is little or n
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