A MARQUIS AT A SACRIFICE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 May 1922, Page 5

A MARQUIS AT A SACRIFICE.

LONDON, April 27. Une ot the most amusing results of the house shortage which is agonising ' Europe is a case which has just b«eal heard m a \ iennese court. It shows th» lengths to which a woman will go ia» secure a home in a city where even flats* are at a premium, and is reminiscent ° hi■ ?, SOllg ln "Tlie Country Girl":— Molly married the marquis; " . " "siat a thing to do. She took him out in her own turnout. And paid for the service too. . Kosa Rosenbaum, a wealthy widows inserted a matrimonial advertisement* in a newspaper. This drew a reply from the Marquis Maftei, whose famllt tree occupies six pages, but whose hanfc j^ount is as short as his lineage iw i -MaJi am, e Rosenbaum offered to p*r him.Bo,ooo krone, then worth £32 Si viclmg Jthat he Carried her The* ALarqtfi* 'jumped! at the chance, and tW marriage sto6k r place; . Apparently.Kosa repeated of her Bar* gam, -as,: after paying .50,000 kronet shot refused ioj give;the-Marquis any mom, He .consequently .took thW "matter-Vi» court,--suing fcrythe remaining 'SOfitXt.. krone (now worth- only! £l 4s, oWin^othe deprecation in Austrian mbneyfe^ lhe.magistrate .said thaf he thouaffe, Kosa,was -shabby: to. haggle 'over, sm^ a small"-sum- aften had won a'titfe. -He can stick toihis/old--fcitl4 RT-Ae* lady e;xeiaimed ; somawliere^io' live. {Ch e Maquis v3^3 a nat-^aiid -you- know iinpossHSfc* to get a flat in Vienna . ■■^ ■ . T-^'= ' to eet a flat in Vienna."" ",v.v>-"" " Ihe crowd in court appiaucM., andl j the magistrate said that the titi&^e*^ cheap ab the price. ~~^.-r-*