A MARRIAGE COMMITTEE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 9

A MARRIAGE COMMITTEE.

-■NOVEL EXPERIMENT -IN TRANCE; All sorts' of expedients continue- to be ■ suggested with- a view; tn checking population, of which is'now causing considerable anxiety, and. pending their adoption, a very practical step has 3nst bc«n taken man old.fashioncd. conntry town—Mende, in Auvcrgne. Certain of its citizens, after discAlssing tho. sitna- .- tion, formed, themselves into a •' committee; and sent a circular containing the namesi of,, upwards of 200 girls of 18 and over, jvith their .addresseEj.to all tho eligible baah'elnrs., Tho : young women,' it seems, ivero'not, or, at' leasFpfoTeise'd iidi; ( to be, particularly grateful for the interest. thus shpwn in tlicm by'tho'committee; but, on the other hand, the men were delighted, the only fault..which they were ' inclined to find with the circular being the,.omission to mention tho amount of each girl's dowry. The committee intends, if it succeeds in. finding husbands 7 for all the young women, to devote its ; benevolent attention to widows'who aro not stricken in years nhd somojof whom 1 aro represented as being eager to "marry" again. Then, if it is equally fortunate, I similar attention will be shown to niiy old maids who may caro to be accommodated with a partner. As a matter of fact, soino rather mature.spinsters are indignant.at the fact that their nanlcs do not figure on tho list sent out. But in this nrimitivo ' town, as elsewhere, it appears to be impossible to.please everybody. ;