Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1898 — Married Couples' Ages. [ARTICLE]

Married Couples' Ages.

A statistician has published the retire ages of husbands and their wives to the various capitate of Europe. He discovered that marriages are mores frequent "where the husband is two or, three years older than the wife. Wobeh under twenty years of age, however usually take opto themselves husbands ate or seven,years older than themselves-:; The cases in which the man was a year younger than the woman were almost as numerous as those to which he was *snt' or seven pears, older. 1 The first condition was true of . 6,7 per cent qt all married couples, and the latter condition of 6.4 per cent The cases where the husband was six or seven years younger than toe wife were almost as numerous as those where be was thirteen or fourteen years older. Only, two cases were discovered where the husband was thirty-five years the senior, one case where he was fbrtysix years older, and one case where he was the ‘older by forty-seven years. One case was discovered where the wife wus thirty-four years older than toe husband. Twelve and threetenths per cent of afi men whp marry women under twenty years of age, according to the statistician, are between twenty-six and years old.