WHY MORE GIRLS DO NOT MARRY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2201, 14 May 1891, Page 1

WHY MORE GIRLS DO NOT MARRY.

Ihe American authoress, Kst« G*nnett Wells, has found something n- w »q say upon the well-worn question, “ Why mote girls do not marry f” What she writes of her own country women is true of oars, except concerning the influence of the “'society girl,” which to English eyes, seems grossly exaggerated, We don’t like her egotism, nor her talkativeness, nor her affectations, nor anything that is hers, and we do not find tha l W»nry with social life, they eventua iy turn inward, develop their common s-ns*-and entertain their paren's,” Still, the writer has something piquant and s’riking to say of her. *• She demands a great deal in ability and money and most men have not'both to give, Shcould get along v-ry well if she could sometimes be married and sometim* s not,’’ A very pretty and graphic touch. “The working woman dreads man. She knows him as contractor, boss, night fiend, betrayer, and wants none of him. Why should she add to her burthens because of present.enjoyment in finding herself courted ? She consider* it respectable to be unmarried, though secretly preferring to be a young widow with one child end a small banking account.” “If l conld be engaged and let it stop there, I could do,” The writer concludes by the, statement that what helps to keep a girl of bomb'*rank from marriage is ” the succession, of stories in ‘ the women’s column ’ of her newspaper, which .tells of the hardness of a wife’s lot, her want of pin money, and the meanness of men.”

THE MASSOWAH OUTRAGES. The all-absorbing topic of oovrrsation in politic ! crclea in Laly has been the Massowah dUvragfs, -..-the ri-velation of which has fairly astounded the Ita ia public. A commission cun posed of senators, deputies, and a general officer was appointed to inquire into the matter. Judging from the revelations that have already been made by the Tribuna, and by the Secolo, the commission will have a dark and sanguinary tale to unfold. The ▼ictims of L'eutenant Livraghi and hie fellow conspirators were merely well-to-do private individuals, but included several men of note iu the Mussulman community. At the head of the list is *he name of Hamid Kantibay, who was chief of a tribe friendly to Italy, and Mnssa El Ekhad, a Mussulman adventurer, who took a p'ominent, part in the m ssaoieof Alexandria, and who subsequently emglpyed by • the Italian, General Orero, incarrying oo negotiations with the dervish'a. It appears to have been Musaa’s prosperity in this new sphere which excited the cupidity of the Italians, and it is said that Cognossi and Livr ghi_were ulso jealous nf the confidence »h>oh General Otero reposed in him. Somewhat similar motives seem to have prompted the assassination of Kantibay. The correspondent of th-5 'lViboiM at Maaso* h learned th t in Uognnssi’s d--sk a manuscript Gat bad been foun t in wh ch ihe name of a certain rich merchant, Lgg rl.gos, was marked with a red cross. This oue being followed up, it was discovered that Hagos had been drawn in o an ambuscade and assassinated, tog 'her with Ajub Ge-chon, chief of the Abyssinian colony at Massowah, who whs also possessed of considerable means. These assassinations are described na having taken place in December, 1889, on the road leading to Otumlo, whither the tinfortilbate man had been conveyed by > pout of native police uader Livraghi’s command. The Abyssinian chief, it is slated, was buried in a ditch. Another .V-u chief, n'med Osman Naib, i- t>. ‘ i to haw been similarly massacred on Uie road in Emberancy. The I'alien < ffi -or, according to the confession of some of he nativ. a who formed par: of the ambuscade on this occasion, ordered a grave to be dug, and told Naib that it was for him, Naib threw himself at Livrsghi’s feet and implored him to spare his life, but the l'eutenant ordered two of his men to knock the prisoner on the head. As they showed some hesitation to obey his instructions, Livragh '<rew hi« revolver and killed the unforiuo »e Naib. after which he mounted his horse and tranquilly lighted a cigarette. When the body, still warm, had been thrown into thp grave and covered with a thin layer of soil, Livraghi caused his horse to execute a number of fantastic mane* ivres over the grave. It is alleged that numerous outrages of this description tfere committed, but that they hushed up by the authorities, who presumabty feared that they would constitute a formidable weapon in the hands of those opposed to Italy’s African co<ontal policy. It appears that ona of the methods employed to e tort money from rich merchants was to surreptitiously de osit among their goods a small bag of hacchiab, the sale of which was strictly forbidden, and upon a subsequent inspection of the merchant's stock the discovery of this Contraband article was made the pretext for enforcing a heavy ransom, failing which the victim 1 was subjected to more violent measures at the hands of the m litary police. According to Liv-aghi’s estimate no fewer than 800 were sacrificed to this abomm ble system, but on that head more sp-ci i information will no doubt be procured by the commission.