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Show f I - I. , ,t v fou France Encourages X Ideas of Matrimony In order to encourage matrimony ;j In France, the Friendly Society of ' I'nrlglun Youth haa organized a "mar- i flage fulr" at Chntou. Three hundred and twenty-eight young men and women left I'arla with a bund at their head, went to .' Clinton, and started the fiances' fair by an alfresco lunch, followed by a bull. ; Each of them had previously filled up a form, giving details as to their , iltuntlon and prospects, and making i known their Ideaa regarding their life purlrier-to-he. In return for these forms each person received a numbered num-bered budge. If, at the hall or elsewhere, a young woman was attracted by the wearer of a certain number she could (1ml out all about him by simply quoting quot-ing his number. Most of the men wanted wives who were "fond of home," while the principal stipulation made by the girls were thut their prospective husbands should have sufe Jobs and satisfactory ncomes. , |