Servia is in trouble now with an epidemic of marriages, remarks an English paper. The cause is the system of marriage banks foundad as in encouragement to tlrift, bat which have proved to have quite an opposite ■ fleet. The young men aud maidens of Servi* begin paying in*o these institu'ions at an early age on tho promise of a pr.-raiura on marriage, [mtnediatply a email sum has be*n accumulated the detdre for marriage ■{rows overwhelming, with the mult that the first offer is snapped up. In onnspqtifncp, -prematurely early and u happy marring*.* ete general. The natter haa now reaoh'-d such loughs hat it is seriously. !ronhli»<» the Jov'-roraetit. and 'lie «d ; sabi in- o f bolifihing these bank?, wbi'ib are held o be tbf vook of ibt tvil, fa 1 being debate
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 128, 14 November 1901, Page 2
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133Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 128, 14 November 1901, Page 2
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