Show A recent enactment in belgium has made it obligatory for brides to have their marriage licenses or marriage lines as they call them in that land of fens and dikes gorgeously bound in gilt edge morocco this is considerately done or in other words done for a consideration by the municipalities who have now taken to binding up a quantity of more or less useful information with the documents there is a summary of the marriage laws a rough and ready lesson on the treatment of children and a table with spaces for a catalogue of the issue of the marriage the table contains room for twelve children to be entered so this may bo taken as a gentle hint that that number is tho extreme limit tolerated by belgian burghers in a well conducted family the manual seems only to need alie addition of a few choice receipts and a hint or two on the best means of obtaining divorces in order to defy criticism |