Evening star., 1909-05-16

get tied up in the first six months of the
bars down? In this latter case, the Won
derful increase of marriages registered
by the statistician of Paris would be
fictitious.
A typical spendthrift union blooms in
the Streleski pension of Neuilly-expen-
sive haven for Babes-in-the-W Woods es-
Gaping from a Montmartre lodging house
on false hopes. The groom of twenty
seven never earned dollar: his capital.
i'll a spendthrift trust. brings him $40
week for life.
The bride of twenty-five has 5000
worth of securities, mostly in the hands
of her father. They were staying in bed
to save food and cabfares after their
first week in the Montmartre lodging
house. When his monthly $40 came he
bought her new hat: then he discovered
that coal shares in her name had gone up
from 30 francs to 30 francs. Quick for
the pension in the Park of Neuilly. Sad
die horses, hats, fancy tailormades and
dawdle with the fashionabes on Arme
nonville terrace in the boom perfumed
morning.
All on credit but the drinks, Then it
turned out that the coal shares had gone
from $50 to 3O-instead of going up from
50 TO $50.
The hunt for the twenty -fve-year-old
helress has developed new marriage
broker-a sly woman of the world VINO
deals directly with the girl.
Heretofore she found the girls par
ents an insuperable barrier now she
plays on the optimism of the blooming
daughter, who would have youth of her
own age. Why, a young loafer around
the grand cafe is just picking up a $l2.-
Co0 one-whose mother wanted her to
take wealthy fellow of forty-five.
No, no, she viii have her loafer-who
will put her $4,000 in to the dime-novel
publication business. All the profits go
to the publishers, as he-1he author of
eight romances-ought to know Being
a prudent girl. she said she would read
them first. She is now at The Bride of
the Rope" But you did not write it,
a friend says What of it. grins tne
bridegroom I'm to be publisher. not
a writer
The vaguely literary scamp who never
earned a weeks board in nine years, al
most regrets a girl of Quimperle with
$1,000 and an orphan to boot. Her guar
dian wanting to marry her himself, let
her come of age by the new law.
Her only fault was brown tough
ness of skin, tanned as to be insensible
to the f1eas of Quimperle-the most vo-
racious in the world, he muses. over mis-
absinthe. Yes. and face that would
Backwards. With her extra 5000 l
might have made fortune on the race
track. Am I not disinterested to take
pretty girl with only $12.0o0?'
Three species or girls are aHected Dy
the new French marriage law:
The girl with money.
The girl who can earn money, and
The home angel he latter. who mad
no chance at AL in 1907, needs now but
to work on the "son of a family in the
good old way to ring him into sudden
wedlock.
It was the unique danger dreaded by
Napoleon In drawing the marriage arti-
cles of his code. threatening the reign of
the middle class that brought him in.
You build up families by marrying your
sons to girls with money. The code Ma
poleon said to the poor girl: Hands Off,
She had to get the consent of the mans
parents: up to forty. they could dodge the
wrts of his respectful lawsuit
You build up population by permitting
the poor girl to lay her hooks on any
youth-and start him working for her.
But suppose he can't work?
What will happen in France. the land
of small capitalists? Young men with
$500 a year and no trade ought to marry
girls with $7OO a year, but keen house
keepers.
What will the girl with nothing-a-year