Berlin has had a "record" year in regard to marriages during 1920. Statistics given for the last 19 years show that not even during the war were there as many mar-nages in Berlin as were solemnized last year, a During 1911 Berlin registries' showed 37,798 marriages, while 53,691 marriages took place in 1920. One of the chief attractions to marriage in Berlin is the haifa promise of a house that goes with it, for the Wohnungsamt gives the bride and bridegroom preference over ordinary people, and a bachelor anxious to settle down finds that even in expensive Berlin arried life with a heme of his own is after all cheaper than hotel and restaurant life. An old official at a Well-known registry office in Berlin states that in modern marriage there is more calculation and less affection
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