The modern girl is not so keen on marriage as was her sister of the last generation, when to reign ever a domestic sphere was, ey at any rate was supposed to be, the height of a woman's ambition.
To-day a girl is usually able to support herself, and has leanings towards a bachelor existence. She has her own earnings and after working hours is often able to have a@ good time, besides being free from the thousand and one domestic worries that cross the path of her married sister.
Marriage too often has an aspect. real or fancied, which does not appeal to the twentieth century girl and that is the loss of what ove may term financial freedom Many a woman who previous to her marriage has possessed a banking account of her own transfers it to that of her husband who henceforth too often controls the domestic exchequer. He pays' tio household bills—and is sometimes too prone to submit them to critic-examination—'the servants' wages, and even doles out money to his wife to cover incidental expenses.
This procedure is certainly not conductive to the dignity of the position of a woman, aa one of the heads of a household. Especially is thig the case in China, where at any rate among many of the Chinese, woman' does not hold the position she does in some other countries.
WHAT MONEY SAYS, The foreigner's wife in China who possesses a bank account of her own into which ber husband Pays prearranged amounts, who therefore can draw cheques for the monthly bills, and who herself pays the servants' wages, will possess much greater authority over the domestics than she would otherwise de if her -husband kept these monetary affairs in his own hands, for in China money "talks" just as much and perhaps more than, it does in other lands. 4
Such considerations as these mav seem very sordid and materialistic, nevertheless they inay and. do tent te deter many modern girls from venturing uponiimarriage. We may affirm that thes-ought not to weign against true tive, still we are bound to recognize the reasonableness of woman's claims in the matter of wifehood.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.