01959cam a22003013u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000310011324500190014426400510016330000470021433600260026133700260028733800360031350000310034950800370038052010800041753400650149765300180156265300340158085600430161476862UtSlPG20260610134759.0mcr n260607r20251910utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afi2iso639-1 4aPH1 aFinne, Jalmari,d1874-193810aPalkankoroitus 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-09-12  aTuula Temonen and Tapio Riikonen  a"Palkankoroitus :  1-näytöksinen pila by Jalmari Finne" is a one-act comedic play (a farce) from the early 20th century. It satirizes the economics of matrimony in a small-town school setting, where a pay bonus for married teachers tempts a cautious bachelor to consider wedlock for financial gain.  Antti, a middle-aged schoolteacher, decides to propose to his long-time servant Juhanna after learning that married teachers earn more, and he asks his eloquent friend Jaakko the cantor to deliver the proposal. Jaakko’s florid speech moves Juhanna, who accepts, and the new couple immediately tally household plans. But when Juhanna outlines hiring a maid and budgeting for clothes, travel, and “extras,” Antti calculates the added costs exceed the bonus. He recoils, tries to back out, and Juhanna erupts in indignation, denounces him, and storms off. Jaakko returns to find the match in ruins, and Antti concludes—wryly—that the trouble lies less in marriage than in women, ending the farce on a sharp comic note. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cHelsinki: Lilius & Hertzberg Oy, 1910  aOne-act plays  aFinnish drama -- 20th century40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76862