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Show ALL BACHELORS PAY TOLLS. Single Men Pay Handsomely for Their Privileges In Argentina. Ono of tho smaller states composing tho Argentlno Itcpuhllc has no uso for bachelors. Tho law holds that a man Is marriageable In Argentina when ho Is twenty. Tho exchequer gives point to tho opinion by taxing nil bachelors of botween twenty and thirty ?5 a month. After thirty nnd up to thirty-five tho tax Increases 100 per cent. Between thlrty-uvo nnd fifty slnglo blessedness costs $20 n, month. From his fiftieth to hts sov-onty-flfth year a bachelor may follow fol-low his own wild road by paying In $30 n month. After that comes relief. re-lief. The vicious example ot an unmarried un-married matv of between seventy-flvo nnd eighty Is considered to bo neutralized neu-tralized by a payment of only $20 a year nntl when tho eightieth birthday Is passed tho treasury finally ceases from worrying. A widower Is given thrco years in which to mourn nnd chooso a successor, suc-cessor, but a man who can prove that ho has proposed nnd been refused thrco times in ono year Is considered to havo earned Immunity. Hero, ono would think, Is an easy loophole, bnt tho law Is said to net llko n charm. |