Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1901 — Marriage by Assessment. [ARTICLE]

Marriage by Assessment.

Marriage is admittedly always a hazard, but in Servia it has been made the basis of a qoyel variation on the usual modes of speculation. There societies ifor providing bonuses on marriage were formed, and flourished to such an extent as to greatly accelerate the marriage rate. The funds were obtained on the assessment system, find, as many members who got a bonus and a bride abruptly stopped their contributions, the aspiring celibate subscribers •who were left found their obligations Increasing more rapidly than is the experience of most married men. Consequently liquidation has set in among these companies with great severity, and the boom in mafrimony isdikely lo be followed by a slump.—London Financial News. Some men succeed In spite of all their friends and relatives can do.