MATRIMONY BY THE SEA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2120, 4 November 1890, Page 3

MATRIMONY BY THE SEA.

In Nordeny, a favorite German resort, there is an institute for providing wives and husbands, of which the following are the printed regulations :—l. Each person using this institute pays for the period of the bathing season a fee of 20 marks, which sum covers all the privileges of the establishment. Those at a <?istanee wishing to do business by post must enclose this amount. Each subscriber is entitled to have his or her portrait displayed ia the institute. Each portrait is numbered, and, if the subscriber chooses, his or her name, position, dwelling place, income, etc,, etc., enumerated under that number in the description book, which may be referred to by other subscribers of the opposite sex, or, if preferred, he or she must apply personally for these particulars. 3. Each subscriber has the right at any time to withdraw his or her portrait and the corresponding page from the descripton book, but, at the same time, loses the privilege of visiting the institute; 4. Ladies' and gentlemans' protraits are displayed in separate rooms j gentlemen are allowed to enter the rooms containing the ladies' portraits and ladies that containing the gentlemen's portraits. 5. Each subscriber must show his or her ticket before entering the institute; non-subsoribers are not permitted to enter. 6. Ihe strictest discretion is to be considered a point of houour by every subscriber. Any subseribsr violating confldenee renders himself liable to the consequences: 7. The institute is open to gentlemen only from 9to 12 in the forenoon, and to ladies only from 8 to 5 in the afternoon. The institute is said to do a roaring trade; but the mysterious terrors of the threat contained in Rule 6 are such as to render it very difficult to obtain any particulars.