"Love is the crooked thing," wrote William Butler Yeats. "There is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it." In the Far East last week, love seemed crookeder than ever. Items:
In Hong Kong, the ancient Chinese custom of concubinage agitated the island colony's women. In the past, a concubine would move right into her keeper's house after acceptance by his first wife, who was then able to keep tab on the doxy and watch out for her husband's interests. A concubine's children would address the No. i wife as...
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