Keeping French Girls There Silk stockings bring the country irle to town but a good dowry will keep her on the farm," in the opin fon of Ambroise Rendu ina French Journal, The elution, tried by Rendy, dean of the City Councillors, has some chance of being adopted as 'a national policy. Henri Queuilte, Minister of Agriculture, approves the plan.
The dowries, in the private experiment, are provided by insurance policies, taken out for small farm girls and maturing for a 10,- 000-frane endowment when the gid is 21, if she remains on the farm.
This dowry, supporters of the idea assert, will enable the girl to choose a good husband and remain on a farm, Thers are 150,000 farm girls bora each year and computations show 126,000 could be endowed at-an-anual cost of 19,000,000 franes..
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