A FRENCH EXPERIMENT
TO KEEP GIRLS AT HOME THE MARRIAGE PORTION “Silk stockings bring the country girl to town, but a good dowry will keep her on the farm,” in the opinion of Ambroise Rendu. This solution, tried by Rendu, dean of the City Councillors, has some chance of being adopted as a national policy. Henri Queuille, Minister of Agriculture, approves the plan. The dowries, in the private experiment, are provided by insurance policies, taken out for small farm girls and maturing for a 10,000-franc endowment when the girl is 21, if she remains on the farm. This dowry, supporters of the idea assert, will enable the girl to choose a good husband and remain on a farm. There are 150,000 farm girls born each year and computations show 125,000 could be endowed at an annual cost of 10,000,000 francs
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 12
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140A FRENCH EXPERIMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 12
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