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Young Chinese Spinster
Happy Though Married

YOUNG CHINESE SPINSTER

HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED

Dressed in a short-sleeved tunic of flowered silk, the only ornaments this girl of the middle classes wears are the brooch at her throat and her ear-rings Although love too seldom makes marriage in China, marriage sometimes makes love, and this young Shanghai wife looks happy enough in her wedded state