Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . ^ ear-old girl whowas sold into matrimonial slavery at Madras. The usualage for a man to marry is sixteen or seventeen, the frequentage for a girl, eight or nine. Not uncommonly she is. A HINDU BRIDE. married when three or four years of age, though she doesnot go to live at once in her husbands house. The business of the match-makers in India is not a secretand clandestine affair as in America, nor are match-makerslooked upon as meddlers with other peoples business, but itis an open, honorable, a
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . ^ ear-old girl whowas sold into matrimonial slavery at Madras. The usualage for a man to marry is sixteen or seventeen, the frequentage for a girl, eight or nine. Not uncommonly she is. A HINDU BRIDE. married when three or four years of age, though she doesnot go to live at once in her husbands house. The business of the match-makers in India is not a secretand clandestine affair as in America, nor are match-makerslooked upon as meddlers with other peoples business, but itis an open, honorable, and avowed occupation. These match-makers spend their time in going aboutarranging for marriages. When they have found a boy anda girl that they think will make a good couple, they go to 350 A WEDDING PROCESSION. the parents and talk the matter over, praising up the littlegirl to the parenjts of the boy, and lauding the beauty andthe wealth and the good disposition of the boy to the girlsparents. Of course their descriptions are taken with a grainof salt, and the matchmakers glowing accounts are notaltogether trusted, but they are usually the intermediariesthrough whom the youthful pair are brought together. When we were in Bombay, the stars were favorable, andthe priests proc
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