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Show Bank Books as Guarantees. An idler in the New York marriage license bureau noticed that many of the applicants for a license carried bank books. "What's that for?" he asked. "A fellow doesn't have to 90m prove his financial standing in this office of-fice before gaining permission to marry, does he?" "He does not," said a clerk, "but many of the couples seem to think so. I don't know where they got the idea, but they have it, and scores of the foreigners for-eigners bent on matrimony back up their other qualifications with a bank book or sometimes even a roll of cash. The women are as anxious to prove their eligibility as the men, and frequently fre-quently show even greater thrift, their capital overbalancing that of the men by a good many dollars." |