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16 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, Februery 8, 1967 Oshawa Quartet Warmly Received the Grand Master for the Proy- . l F : jince of Ontario. j At Socia unctions| This quartet also entertained| The Acousti-Chords, a quartet|a distinguished audience at the| from the Oshawa Chapter of nual ladies' night dinner at the} Sweet Adelines, braved the win-|piccadilly Room in the -Hotel| try blasts to travel to Port/Genosha last Friday evening. | Perry to entertain a receptive} personnel of the quartet are| |Patricia Weggler, tenor; Jeanne} |McKenna, lead; Margaret Mof-| A. E; JOHNSON, 0.D. jfatt, baritone, and Rita Bone- |i OPTOMETRIST [fr Dass. The Oshawa Chapter of Sweet; J H Adelines is currently preparing 7 et East lfor its centennial year show, Century in Song," to be held at Saturday, audience of five hundred. The; occasion was the visit to the| Port Perry Oddfellows Lodge of! Eastdale Colegiate, Oshawa Scottish Rite Club's an-| who is the assistant director, as fiiow was pertormed "cor the| Many Pakistani Child Brides patients at the Ontario Hospital, | Whitby. The Acousti - Chord's tenor, | Patricia Weggler, is the chap- ter's new chorus director, mA will be directing her first show| \this year, assisted by the quar- tet's lead, Jeanne McKenna, well as this year's show chair- man. GIVES RARITIES WINNIPEG (CP)--Mrs. Peter Curry, wife of a Winnipeg bus- inessman, has presented two) rare zebras to the Assiniboine} Park zoo. Mrs. Curry, who has} made several camera safaris in Africa, obtained the Hartmann's mountain zebras from a game farm in New York. For COLDS and 6 pons 1. Rest in bed 2. Drink plenty of fluids 3. Take Aspirin to reduce fever and re ASPIRIN WILL MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER FAST Aspirin is the Registered Trade Mark of The Bayer Com RIPPE... lieve pain ee 'eee | HEADACHES pany, Limited, Aurora, Ontario Discovered By By RALPH JOSEPH Canadian Press Correspondent LAHORE (CP) -- Numer- ous cases of girls who were married between the ages of eight and 12 have been dis- covered by social researchers in this supposedly enlightened city in West Pakistan. Child marriage was thought to have been rooted out of the subcontinent during the Brit- ish regime. But indications are that it is still a wide- spread practice. What the British so firmly stamped out was the bizarre custom, confined mostly to Hindus, of marrying off boys and girls soon after they were born. The present problem stems more from puritanical harassed parents wanting to dispose of their daughters be- fore frolicsome playmates be- coming interested in them sexually. A 25-year-old dockworker in Karachi startled me a short time ago by casually an- nouncing he was returning to his village near Chittagong, East Pakistan, to marry a girl aged 11. I took it that he really wanted to marry her so she could help his elderly | mother who lived alone on | their little plot of land. About six months later he | told me he had consummated the marriage with her. Amused at my surprise and | probably guessing that I con- Social Research sidered him a bit of a lecher, he added that where he came from men married girls even younger. GIRLS MATURE EARLY Child marriage is as common among some of the hill tribes as it is in the villages on the plains. It has been discovered among the tribes of the North-West Frontier as well as in the larger cities such as Lahore. Family planning workers want to see the age at mar- riage raised so that each woman would bear a smaller brood during her period of fertility, ranging roughly be- teen the ages of 13 and 45. The custom may have some- thing to do with the common incidence of girls reaching sexual maturity even earlier than 13, Many younger ones are known to have conceived. The rate of miscarriages and still births among them is high, as it is also among girls who conceive at 14 or 15. No specific study of the custom appears to have been made, though papers on con- nected subjects have men- tioned it. In a survey of 2,331 women, Saleem Saeed of the Social Science Research Cen- tre at Lahore, for instance, notes 218 cases in which girls had wed between the ages of eight and 12. This would indicate that about 10 per cent of the girls who married in Lahore were children. AGES FALSIFIED Miss Saeed has an explana- tion for the prevalence of the custom which seems plaus- ible. The practice had been banned in the 1930s by Brit- ish authorities and a family laws ordinance promulgated by President Ayub Khan in 1960 fixed the minimum age at which a girl may marry at 16. "Knowing that it is against the law to marry a girl younger," Miss Saeed said, "people tend to give false in- formation to survey con- ductors about their age at marriage." However, she agreed that many of the poor folk were so abysmally ignorant, es- pecially in the villages, that they were unaware a law existed forbidding child mar- | riages. Since the bride is usually | completely veiled at the cere- mony, Sitting on the floor at her parents' home with her head bowed, even the priest who performs the ceremony would find it difficult to guess her age. "One reason why families tend to dispose of their daughters early," Miss Saeed suggested, "'is that they want to have the marriage ar- rangements of the girl over with while the elders are still | alive." cities, Tradition-bound even in the people feel the mar- | riage would be less likely to | NO DOWN PAYMENT just say "CHARGE IT" on your All Purpose Account mm) Best Sellers now at Lowest Prices Ever! 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