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Show A BAN UPON MARRIAQE. From tho Now York World. A national bank in Chicago has posted post-ed a notice that clerks in its employ receiving less than $1000 per year muot pot marry- without obtaining the approval ap-proval of the bank's officials. Interviewed Inter-viewed on the subject, tho ofilccrs of the Institution declared It foolish for a man to attempt In Chicago to support a wife, to say nothing, of a family of several sev-eral children, on less than the Income named. The Republic exists for its homes, and not for Its national bankH. If thero can exist happiness and content In a "cottage" which has resolved Itself into a flat uncomfortably small, only a questionable ques-tionable business Instinct will lead to a corporate blocking of tho way thereto. Presumably the bank in Chicago feel9 that It Is looking out for Its own Interests Inter-ests and guarding Its employees from conditions which might bring temptations tempta-tions to misappropriate the Institution's funds. It is generally agreed, however, that a man happy in his home Is less tempted than ono running at large. |