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Show ALL BACHELORS PAY TOLLS. Single Men Pay Handsomely for Their Privileges In Argentina. Ono of tho smaller states composing tho Argentlno Republic has no uso for bnchclors. Tho law holds that a man Is marriageable In Argontlnn when ho Is twenty. Tho exchequer gives point to tho opinion by taxing all bacholors of between twenty and thirty $5 a month. After thirty and up to thlrty-nvo tho tax Increases 100 per cent. Between thlrty-flvo nnd fifty slnglo blessedness costs 20 a month, From his fiftieth to his sov-i cnty-flfth year a bachelor may follow fol-low his own wild road by paying In $30 a month, (After that comes relief. re-lief. The vicious examplo of an unmarried un-married man of between soventy-flvo and eighty is considered to bo neutralized neu-tralized by a pnyinout of only $20 a year and when tho clghtloth birthday li passed tho treasury finally ceases fioni worrying, A widower is glvon threo years in which to mourn and chooso a successor, suc-cessor, but a man who enn prove that ho has proposed and been refused three times In ono year Is considered to have earned Immunity. Hero, ono would think, Is an easy loopholo, but tho law Is said to act ltko a charm. |