DOOMED TO BE SPINSTERS
An old superstition of obscure origin is responsible for imposing a severe handicap on Japanese girls who are twenty years old this year. It is said that they must all be so bad-tempered as to be unsuitable for wives. This unlucky time occurs with every sixty-one years, and although : the superstition is waning there are still large numbers of parents who will not allow their sons to marry girls under this cloud. A number of this year’s unlucky girls have taken up professional work : n the belief that they are doomed to remain single. To combat the superstition, efforts are being made by a society organised in Tokio to help its members to select wives and husbands without parental help or interference. In the past, thousands of girls, fearing a lifetime of loneliness, have committed siucide.
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Shannon News, 30 April 1926, Page 4
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140DOOMED TO BE SPINSTERS Shannon News, 30 April 1926, Page 4
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