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MARRIAGE ON LEASE. .

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MARRIAGE ON LEASE. THE PLEA FOR MATRIMONIAL LIMIT. Mr. Hall Caine has discussed the daring proposal of the distinguished author, Mr. Meredith, put forward during the Handicap of Marriage" controversy, that marriages should be made for fixed periods and then the children taken over by the State. Although the Manx novelist does not go so far as Mr. Meredith, yet ho has expressed modified approval of the suggestion so far as the children are concerned. Speaking at a. bazaar at Douglas in aid of a free dinner and boot fund, Mr. Caine said it was not so much the wives as the children of the poor v.-ho were handicapped by the eventualities of marriage. He thought how sadly the children suffered through no fault 3f their own, and was almost tempted to say that it was the duty of the State to put restrictions on the marriage of those classes that might not be able to provide for their offspring. If Mr. Meredith's plan came to pass, the marriage ceremony would have to be amended, and instead of being joined to- gether for better or for worse until death effected a separation, they would have to be leared to each other, with their property ind appurtenances, for a period of ten year3. If one had not known that the gTeat man who made this proposal had been a great student of human nature one might fairly conclude he had spent his life not in the world, but in a bandbox of cotton-wool. But. while recognising the clear fact that marriage, with its many emotional issues, was not like any other wordly contract, and :ould not, therefore be subjected to the laws that apply to commerce, one might see some- thing in Mr. Meredith's plea for legal pro- rision for the children. They had an excellent saying in the Isle jf Man that a stepmother's breath was cold, lnd of all cold stepmothers the State might easily be the coldest. But any stepmother nust be better than nono at ail, and he ooked forward to the time when the material :onditicn of the children of the poor would )'3 protected by law, and it would be as much ill" duty of the State to feed the bodies as Íú feed the minds of the rising generation.

REALLY A PRINCL.

MANIA FOR PROPOSALS.

(C PRINCESS" ARRESTED.

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