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Prophet Mohammed in the Holy Koran set no minimum age for brides. The Government's new law setting a minimum age of 16, argued the Koranic priests, was clearly un-Mohammedan, since all that the Prophet specified was that a bride should be "marriageable." Meeting the Church on its own ground last week the Ministry of Justice agreed to alter the law so that when a prospective bride is less than 16 years old she may petition the Ministry of Health, claiming to be "marriageable" and offer herself for scientific examination. If Science decides in her favor...
...this convention, it might seem that the Harvard student's mind turns rather towards lighter subjects during vacation. But anyone who heard Kirby Page speak on the problems facing the youth of today would not feel that their "political emotions" were all in vain. The facts of overproduction, un-equal distribution of wealth, class enmity, unemployment, and disarmament, are not fully realized by college students. A statement such as Kirby Page made, that if some agreement concerning reparations is not reached within the year, Germany is likely to assume a dictatorship and renounce all her debts, makes one realize that...
...Saoul Comme un Americain...
...that among the French there is hardly any drinking to excess, and that if a Frenchman sees a "staggering drunk" in Paris, he assumes that it is an American? American customs, as observed in France, have even enriched the French language by a new comparison: instead of ivre comme un Polonais, the familiar expression is now (alas!) saoul comme un Américain [drunk as an American...
Life's physiological realities have long been discussed openly by advertisers of mouth wash, yeast, sanitary napkins, toilet paper and laxatives. But the inevitability of Death, homeliest reality of all, was not used flatly as a sales argument un til last week. Breaker of the convention was a milk company, Borden's advertising Walker-Gordon acidophilus milk...