Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-09
So MEN MAY MARRY
Fund of $4,000 Francs Raised
by Bazaar in Paris.
FOR COLORED BACHELORS
Story of Avarice That Comes From
Laval.
NEW RULE FOR PASSPORTS
Advanced Women in Russia Regard
Concession as Indicative Of
Other Reforms.
NEW RULE FOR PASSPORTS
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cabiegram to The Star.
PARIS. June 7.-Surely there are no
more ind-hearted people in the world
than Parisians. They make a hobby of
charity, and as their pocketbooks are
not always as capacious as their hearts.
they are continually arranging charity
bazaars to raise money for all sorts Of
purposes. But the one recently given
is probably the most original Of them
all. 1t was organized under the patron
age of the charming Comtesse d'Eu,
and the amount of $4,000 francs was
raised for the wonderful purpose Of
enabling ITO bachelors OF the dark
continent to WOO and wed the same
number Of black skinned maids
The result was proclaimed amid
thunders of applause at the general
assembly of the French Anti-Slavery
Society, presided over by NJ. LIE Myre
de Villers.
This gentleman, who has played an
extremely active part in Frances colonial
expansion. explained to his delighted
audience that the society had, in the
past eighteen months, been holding an
extensive investigation into the matri-
monial customs of the negroes, as q re-
suit of which 1t had aScertained that
only the men who had money enough to
purchase wives were able to wed, and
that as 1t took them many years to save
up the necessary sum, they were becom-
ing elderly when they entered the mar
ried state. AS for their juniors they
naturally had to remain single until they
had obtained the wherewithal, and even
when they had won a wife they held
her only by a precarious title as her
canny parents took advantage of the
fainteSt pretext to ask for moro money.
The tender hearts of the members of
the society had been melted by the dis
covery that the course of true love did
not run smooth even in those primitive
regions. SO they decided to facilitate we'd
lock among young negro couples by adj
vancing to each prospective bridegroom
20 francs, which would be paid back in
five years at the rate of forty francs per
annum. The 22,00O francs will thus be
devoted to the setting up of 10 negro
households, by way of a start. pending
the receipt of other generous donations.
1t is to be hoped that the parents Of
those prospective brides will not hear OF
this marvellous stroke of good luck. as,
being already noted for their graSping
proclivities. they may be tempted to dou
BILE the figure. And now about anti
slavery. The wife's troubles often begin
with her union, and she Is usually bond
woman in every sense of the word. The
old say ng that charity begins at home
seems to have been rather overlooked on
this occasion.
Begrudged Funeral Expenses.
A queer story Of woman's avarice
comes from Laval. near Rennes. In the
Rue Basse des Bouchers resided two sis
terS. Clementine and Fanny Manguy,
aged seventy-two and seventy-four years.
The women held aloof from their neigh
bors. They rarely left their rooms and
their only visitor was a man.
The elder sister had not been seen for
seven weeks. The neighbors became anx
ious and wondered what had occurred.
The police were informed. Yesterday
morning policeman was annoyed by a
disagreeable odor. He assembled the
stairs and knocked at the door of the
sisters room. The door was not opened
but an angry voice within babe him go
about his business.
The policeman procured ladder, and
effected an entrance into the rooms by
opening a window. A terrible spectacle
met his view. On mattress lay one of
the sisters. She was i'll. Asked where
her sister was, she replied that she was
lying dead at the foot of the bed. The
elder sister had in fact, been dead for
seven weeks. and the other had remained
by the body. which was now in a state
of putrefaction.
When asked why she had not notified
the authorities of her sisters death she |