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Russian Early Marriages

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
June
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is nothing new in Russia to see a band of convicta in their coarse gray uniform, with a large orange-colored cross covering the back, trudge wearily along on their way to Siberia. But these miserable caravans are formud of men, only female convicta being generally conveyed by rail or steamer. Some eighty-four of these latter left Odessa the otherday by the steamer Costrome for the Island of Sakalhin, on the coast of Eastern Siberia. According to the Novoe Vreniya, thirty-six of the women vere transportad for murder or attemptéd murder of their lmsbands, twenty-two of the thirty-six being under the age of twenty. One bride of sixteen had killed hor husband wiihin Ihe lirwt week after marriage; another of sweet seventeen lived with him for six months before she (lid the deed; and ,a third, of eighteen, waB convictPd for killing her husband during the night l.iy blows with 11 lieavy hammer. Which facts demónstrate that, however beneficia! early marriage may be in other countries, in Russia, at least, no uoinan should be allo wed to marry before she is twenty.

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Ann Arbor Democrat