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Show "Reform in Marriage LoUJ. Milwaukee rejoices that It la no locker the Mecca of eloping couples. Ir. J. W. C?on. registrar of tbe department de-partment of health, congratulates the ' city upon having ben freed from ti ' "elopement curie." He says that for- ! merly there was hardly a week when j there was not some one In Milwaukee from Chicago, see lung in.'ormaiion about a run-away wedding, but now thrre are no co;nplalnts. The True bill has removed the stigma that attached at-tached to the stjte. Most of the Chicago Chi-cago elopers now go to Michigan. It is gratifying to notice tbt an effort la beh.g made to prevent such matches in that stati-. A recent number of the Michigan State Board of Health bulletin bulle-tin h-.d a long nrilcle complaining of the laxity of the marriage lawt. The legislature will probably adopt a reform re-form s. miiar to that whi h put an end to the elopement to Wisconsin. If It does pass sin h a law It will be up- j proved ty everyn" em-pt t'oe people wao make their living in the not re- j tpectable trade of encouraging hasty marriages. |