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Show The Right Time to Harry Enigmas are plentiful tn this world, but none more puzzling than the query, "When should a man marry?" The clerk or mechanic earning anywhere any-where from $7 to $1S per week has tha isamo deslro to mako a home for hlm-Bolf, hlm-Bolf, with a presiding angel, of course, as do those more lucky young men with fortunes of their own. If the 10 clerk, let us say, Is really In love, he hugs to his heart not only th? object of his adoration, but tho delusion that the old adage Is true, that "What Is enough for one Is enough for two." But frequently tho maiden fair who Is to do tho presiding angel act docs not agree with him on this point. Sho may havo visions of sealskin coats, or even automobiles, and other "neces-sartes" "neces-sartes" of modern life. Hut It seems that the German kaiser has Issued an edict. In view of the perplexed condition condi-tion of the public mind, which settles tho question In his country, at least so far as army offlcers aie concerucd. The empoior has promulgated an order or-der to tho effect that no ofllcer may ninrry unless ho receives a salary of $1,12G a year nnd has also an Income of J375 more. That Is to say, If he and his future wife between them can muster mus-ter $1,G00, the wedding bolls may ring. The hopes of tho $15 young man are dashed, for officers who get no moro than $750 a year are forbidden to even consider matrimony. Neither aro the sons of tho rich Americans without their matrimonial troubles, continues n writer In the Detroit De-troit Ncws-Trlhune. Evory one of them must own a city resldcnco and a country coun-try home or seaside "cottage," whrh Interpreted often means a "palace by the sea." A writer In Harper's Weekly Week-ly suggests that national legislation on this subject might be bo.eflclal, the details being classified something as' follows: Bachelors who think tho Income ot one Is enough for tw6, $20,000. Dnchelors who know the young women aro In love with them, and who themselves are willing to go without clubs, cigars and valets, whatever they may happen to have. Bank cashiers whose fiancees have extravagant tastes, $50,000 a year. Millionaires, $100,000 a year and unlimited un-limited credit. With the aid of some of these old-world old-world Ideas propounded by Wllhclm II., salutary reforms may be Instituted here In tho taking ot matrimonial obll gatlons. |