Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1898 — Where Bachelorhood, is Illegal. [ARTICLE]

Where Bachelorhood , is Illegal.

Bachelors 8 have a hard time in the Argeitine Republic. There a law In-‘ f ■ filets a fineupett any* pWWta‘p||pj[ar-, riuge ible -age' WiW a‘pFoppsai,, T&jfe tt* the ; stkfhjteT p '| > eppJp ■ pf e ,maav riagp ible-rigd.of;e{tsei;,aex,who refuse' an orter tp without -reasons 'wtrlch*' are considered valid ii*-law sliall'ftof be ’ permitted»to< ‘marry* thereafV^t|iqpt d the ] permission of" the* jThey shall, n!)tyiJ6over“ pay o ‘pp ilndem^) ,nity.;.s nn pf pot pipre .than oaiehuiidrfed pounds. tg the person^whose’Offer 1 have,refused..* Young men afttf &6¥nen, under 20 years* ofof ard the lap*, nM’clifi 'ihStty as they please. -. After they are 28 the men are 'to itiyl a heavy pas i£ Ahgy; seffiaiil sin'gle. women propose •as well as men; 7 So an unmarried young man between 20 in that tftuntry hafe a troubles*) metkne/’" Not ohljr is he piade to pay TV>tax fdi*' beinjc a. b&c&ejpr, but if he -TOfusds proposal he fraslto pay the proposer a fine.' Naturally, 'there,,are fp\y«,old maids to** Ifty gentind. ?!*(-<■** \ *' r ' “ * , *‘ H * ,^