BRIDES FROM OVER THE FRONTIER
increase in the number ; :bf marriages between young ‘Austrian peasants and Yugoslav peasant girls is reported from the southern Austrian frontier districts, l ln 1936 there were eight times as many such marriages as in 1935, and 1987 is expected to bring three times as many as 1936.
Love notoriously laughs at frontiers, hut the statisticians, trained to reduce even romance to cold figures, claim to bare found another reason than the impulses of the heart for this epidemic of frontier weddings—namely, the high Austrian, import duty on livestock. Yugoslav girls receive substantial dowries payable in cattle, and dowries are duty free, so that in 1936, according to the statisticians, 40 times as many dowry cattle: as in 1935 were driven duty free across the frontier by young Austrians who had gone forth to bring a bride and cattle home. In 1937 the incoming herds are expected to be twice as large again.
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Evening Star, Issue 22775, 9 October 1937, Page 7
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158BRIDES FROM OVER THE FRONTIER Evening Star, Issue 22775, 9 October 1937, Page 7
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