Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Encouraging Matrimony. [ARTICLE]

Encouraging Matrimony.

In Norway there is a premium on marriage by giving married people a discount. Thus a man and his wife can travel for a fare and a half, a schedule of rates much more satisfying to everyone than “children half price,” and much more reasonable. It is suggested that this privilege is liable to abuse. A prudent man might prolong his courtship indefinitely at reduced rates. This, however, could be easily prevented by obliging married people to carry their certificates about with them, as they could easily do, in red morocco cases, like commutation tickets on railroads. High Enough Anyway. The Eiffel tower is eight Inches shorter in winter than in summer.