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Show Marriage Advertisement In France Brings Rare Results ECAUSSINES, Belgium. May 21. (U.p) Sighing and the sound of solt kisses mingled with the May breeze tnat blew over h;caussines last niht as furiorn maidens and free-doom-wearied bachelars met, embraced, em-braced, and swore to be married. The bachelors came by train lot ds in answer to an advertisement broadcast throughout Europe announcing an-nouncing that the maidens of EcaussinCs, outnumbering the youths by 8 to 5, were tired of remaining re-maining single and wanted husbands. hus-bands. The advertisement invited bachelors bache-lors who believed that wife was an asset instead 0f a liability to come to the little Belgian village near the French border where merrymaking merry-making and feasting would be onlv a prelude to proposing and marriage. mar-riage. The turnout was stupendous, but evh bachelor, from the most timid '.ountry fel.ow to the most sophisticated sophis-ticated laborer from the city, was welcomed with a hearty handshake by the president of the EcaussinCs Matrimonial association and led immediately to the throng of young women, who blushed readily whan they saw the crowds that answered their call. Each greeted her bachelor bache-lor with a kiss. |