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Show PROPOSES TO STOP BARTER MARRIAGES DUBUTN", Dec. 12. Proposals that the Dail Eireanu, or Irish parliament, set aside a sum equivalent to $1,500,000 as ; a state subsidy to enable young men to ! marry, has been made here. Tlie idea I was suggested by Frank H. O'Donnell i to the Irish Women's Franchise league. He criticised what he called "barter I marriages" in Ireland. 1 He said he I knew of girls of 19 years of age who1 were brought into the nearest town on a j fair day and taken to a public house to ! meet men whom they had never seen be- fore, but were to be their husbands. The girls, he declared, were bartered ; like cattle at the fair, while their fathers and friends were drinking. i |