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Show COST OF MARRIAGE KNOT ! CHANGES DURING WEEK THE HAGUE, Nov. 13. The cost lof getting married in The Hague all I depends on the day of the week. For some reason that lius never been ex-j plained Monday la society (Ihv and I marriages on that day at the city hall, I where everj couple must go for the of-1 'ficlal ceremony, cost 60 guilders t nominally nom-inally equivalent to 40 cents each.lj ii., Saturdays the charge is fivo guild-; I era, or nothing al all, depending upon! jwhethei the eouple wish a separate j ceremony all for Ihemselvea or bo, married in groups of twenty couples at a time At these group marriages, the of-, delating clerk reels off in five minutes min-utes ihe marriage formula, all thi couples listening In, chorusing "yes ' at the proper time, and then all file in and sign the book. Then they arel married. |