The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-14

ments, were adjudged true lovers and l to have the capacity of becoming use ! ful members of the community, and they were consequently awarded the prize, which amounted to one hundred and forty dollars.
 | An ex-soldier was the benefiter the next year with the girl of his heart a housemad The soldier was working at a building trade in Cardiff and the couple were given the same amount as 1 their predecessors, and with It rented and furnished comfortable home. Favale, the Italian composer, estab- lished a similar fund in England in 1882, which, However, has not yet be- come available. It will be drawn on in about two years for the first time, Favale, with less knowledge of finance than of music, gave thirty-f1ve hundred dollars to the London City Corporation to be held as trust fund and the in- terest from it each year divided into three funds of thirty-six dollars each, to be given to the three girls of Lon don of good character who would thus be best assisted to marry their lovers marriage otherwise being understood to be impossible or possible only at great risk and inconvenience. As the English law requires trustees to invest funds only in certain classes of safe se- curities which bring a, low rate of in- terest, they found they had not the ne- cessary funds for the division. So they allowed the interest to accrue and be compounded, and now have so large capital that in 8 short time they can begin making awards. They will then have to decide upon three girls be- tween sixteen and twenty-three years of age whose characters will bear strict investigation, and who will be enabled to marry good fard-worklng men to whom they are engaged.
 Dowries for orphan girls are provided by another fund mysterious in origin, which is distributed by the acting gov- ernors of the Endowed Charities Of St. George's-in-th the East, London. This amounts to five hundred and fifty dollars every year, and can be divided as the trustees see fit, with the aim of assisting as many girls as possible. The benefits from it, however, never fall below fifty dollars for each girl, and often reach one hundred and fifty dollars. None can receive aid from this fund until they can satisfy the trustees that they are able to perform the various duties of housekeeper, are suited to make good home makers and are in love with men who are steady and industrious.
 Scotland has a similar institution in trust established many years ago by a Glasgow merchant, amounting to f1f- teen thousand dollars. This Is unique in being intended to encourage others to do exactly what the Glasgow man never did--to marry. This gentleman, whose name was Anderson, lived all his life bachelor, and thus became so convinced of the blessedness of the married state that he undertook to lead all he could that way. For some reason unexplained, after he had listed the usual classification for the young women who can draw from the inter- est of the trust, he added the provision that they must be able to dance well. Under these terms each year three British maidens are presented with one hundred dollars.
 In France, where the marriage of convenience and the natural inclina- tions of the population make matrin1o- ny and the birth rate matters for care full study by the state, society has been organized on the lines of build ing and loan association by which a man or woman can secure at small ex- pense enough money to enable him or her to marry. It Is sort of insurance society conducted by number of per- sons of whom M. Paul Deschanel is at present the head. The members are artisans, young men or women, ana each contributes forty cents a month to its support After member has made such contribution for five years, in which time he has paid twenty-four dollars, he is entitled to draw out nine- ty dollars. If two members desire to wed each other they can thus get one hundred and eighty dollars, which IS something of a windfall, as dowries go among French working people.
 But in Germany the matter has it's most unique development, for there, by the will of a financier, prizes are of- fered in his native town for the man who will marry the ugliest, the most crippled, and the women over forty. This town is Haschmann, and the financier, realizing that beauty is an attraction hard to overcome, provides that out of the income of the fund not less than eighty dollars shall go with the ugliest girl in any year, and the cripple shall receive sixty dollars. The four women not under forty who have been more than once tilted by lover receive, when funds permit, forty dol lars each. But the trustees can vary from this rule to give large rewards whenever necessary to induce some one to marry an unusually ugly girl, or one whose deforrnity is an especial draw hN clr