MARRIAGE IN BERLIN. Utter Failure of a Society of Would-be Old Maids.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 372, 29 May 1889, Page 3

MARRIAGE IN BERLIN. Utter Failure of a Society of Would-be Old Maids.

I>r 1880 some young ladies in Berlin, Germany, founded a club, the members of which pledged themselves not to marry, under pain of a tine of 1,000 marks. At first the club was a great success ; it started with twenty -three members, and Boon increased in number to thirty-one. Suddenly, however, an epidemic of marrying broke out in the club j and this year, at the general meeting, there waa only one solitary member left, who t found herself called upon to dispose of 28,000 marks, the amount remaining of the fines that had been paid. This, by the official advice of the perjured ex-members, the general meeting resolved to divide into equal portions, one to be given to the Berlin hospitals, the other to be settled on the last member. It seems a pity that an advertisement which had ju&t* appeared in a Frankfort paper cannot be brought before this member's notice. It reads as follows : " A poor devil wishes to make the acquaintance of a rich angel, with a view to matrimony, in the hope of making for himself a little heaven on earth.'