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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19TH, 1921

MARRIAGE BROKING.

ARE THE COMMISIONS CHARGED LEGITIMATE?

Marriage broking has long been a dous

France, and it is ishing business in rather curious that until recently the question whether the commission charged for introductivis is legitimate has never beeu decided, wrnes a L'arts correspon dent: The reason no doubt is that the business at its best is a clandestine vce. "being nearly always bail on torture guards hansing, and so the broker usually himself against a dispute by insisting on before the marriage is celebra- 'payment jed, or else. takes bulls et exchange for his commission, payable

AS SOON As the

dowry is handed over. The fee is usually based on 16 percentage of the bride's marriage portion, varying from

to 20

per cent.,according to the geom |

placing

the prospective

-in uthy words, concealing his lack of tortane or doubtful social position. Some- times when it is a question of linding a husband for a "jeune fille nere tuche

girl's the agyat makes a great haul, the

pas heavily. family being willing to while it is not difficult to find an adven- turer willing to fend his nage in return for a mere fraction of rest of which sticks to tcnt, the Another very profitable class

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CHAMBERLATE'S in the matrimonial

the buyers being usually rich marities widows with social ambitions There is

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great scope for this, for titles of nobility having no legal existence in Frazer, they

and the enn he assumed by anybody, and and

"-counts is over-run with Ary

whose pedigrees would not **marquises bear a moment's examination. Indeed a writer on heraldry recently asserted names of of that even among the France there are not half-a-dozen of the trace their present users who can really ancestry to the original bearers. In the case just decided a certain viscount, agreed to pay 23,000 franes for the in troduction to his present wife. He four instalments of 3,000 fr. and

the balance, whereupon the disputed agent sent bin a postcard calling him a For this he was sentenced to

13 days' imprisonment. The irate brok- then sued for the balance of his agreed fee and also claimed 10,000 fr. damages. while the viscount demanded the retura of the money aferady paid on the ground that the contract was legal." The Paris tribunal held, however, that such agreements can be enforced where thera is no fraud or deceit on either side, but that the court has power to fix the amount payable at its discretion. It non- suited both the parties to the case, or, in the French legal phrase sent them

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rather away back to back." alarming decision for the matrimonial ageats, for it fees are to be based on legitimate services, and not, as at pro sent, or skill in humbugging one of the parties, the day of big profits in this shady but erative business is over."

ROGUES OF THE PEN.

VA WOMAN WHO MAKES £30

A WEEK.

Une industry is up to its pre-war level, at any rate that of the hegging-letter

Writer.

Charitable people are fleeced every week of huge sums of money by pro- fessionals in the subtle art, many of whom have been engaged is the business for a long period.

on

We have bad some of these people. books for twenty-five and thirty years," said an offcial of the Charity Organization Society to an interviewer. That they are still practising their trade 13 Suthcient evidence of

success.

their

These beggars reap regular incomes from their cunningly-worded "istles. and some of them are known to have banking accounts through which they ** paliere. pass the remittances sent to their distress."

AN EX-RECTOR'S WIFE. One of the queens of begging-letter writers has cashed cheques for more than a single week. This fifty pounds in woman, who broadcasts her appeals from a country vicarage, is the second wile of Lrector whose cence was withdrawn a few years ago. The woman and her hus- band still, however, continue to occupy the vicarage.

The won an specializes in appeals for loans from clergymen, pretending that her husband is prevented by illness alone From officiating in the Church

When they were married, the pair- the woman is much younger than her husband-lived on a grand scale, gave large parties, and once hired a band from London to entertain their guests. The woman wore expensive gowns and magni- foent jewels.

Some idea of her skill as a begging-" letter writer may be formed by the revel- ation that from one charitable woman alone she received one hundred pounds in three months.

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Begging letter writers invariably accommodation addresses. They scan the personal columns of the newspapers, search the reference books in the libraries, and anaotate useful data for the pur- pose of their appeals.

The secret of their success is that they always marage to establish some connect- ing Link with

their victim-usually a false

one,

is

regarted

One of the most persistent begging- letter writers in London is a man who is Housemaid Mary." This man known 15

as a genius at hunting up old family records. He usually makes re ferences to

members of the family, mostly of

a personal character, and, after inquiring after Master John or Miss Joan adde: But I don't suppose they will remember their old nurse

The meid of thirty years ago is now in terrible distress-home sold up, husband seriously ill, and so on. The appeal usually meets with success

The preseverance of the money-maker. needle, as is remarkable: he is sharp as narrow, and as hard. The Bishop of Woolwich.

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