Sidelights of the Ghetto

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 April 1910, Page 4

Sidelights of the Ghetto

PRICE QF HUSBANDS. .

Prices of husbands in the NewYork Ghetto are advancing to tho highest levels ever ki^own, being an indication of the prosperity that is prevailing amongst tho -Jews, who number about 800,000 of New York's population. . There are 5000 Jewish marriage brokers in New York, wind they Assert that the old scale of dowers no longer attracts the Hebrew'young men into wedlock. The "New York Times" quotes a. schatchen as saving the common,' uneducated man in business, at a salary of not more tlinn Co per week, can 'now reasonably esneot to get £100 with his wife. Saloon-keeping, ranks about the lowest of all on tho schatchen's list, yet only a week ago. a young man, "two years out of Russia," an assistant barkeeper, "refused even to look a.t a match with .C 200." Tie expected CfiOO. An ordinary follow graduate now commands CIOO witli his bride. A medical, legal, or dental beginner, with no practice at all, can obtain CfiOO in the marrin< v > market, while one with an established business exneets to receive anywhere from CI2OO to CAOOO through the seha.tclien.