Discouraging Marriage.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 179, 2 August 1904, Page 2

Discouraging Marriage.

Many correspondents have recently complained that marriage is a disqualification to the man who works for his living, especially to clerks and shop assistants. Now one writes to the Draper's Record that for two months ho has been seeking work,and recently negotiations with a large house for a post which ho was aoV mittedly qualified to fill were promptly closed by the admission that he was married. Among the reasons given for this by employers aro the bachelor's advantages in the matter of dress, freedom from distractions, agreeuWene&s of manner, willingness to work overtime, less urgency for higher wages, and that women like to be served by bachelors. As a corollary of the discussion on the declining birth-rate, a number ofl correspondents expatiate on the difficulty experienced by married people with families in obtaining houses or flats. Landlords .arc more than ever reluctant to have as tenants young couples with young children was the confirmatory statement of a wellknown agent in Bond Street, London. Seventy-five per cent of the commissions entrusted to this agent for letting houses or flats, furnished or otherwise, stipulate that tho tenants shall have no children or dogs-i Home Paper.