Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — Mathematics of Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Mathematics of Marriage.

The chances at birth that a baby will eventually marry, says T. D. Denham, In Pearson’s, are nine In twenty, or, rather, less than one-half. No fewer than 38 per cent, of babies die before they are 5 years old, and 44 per cent, of the whole population before the age of 18. The females outnumber the males In this country in the proportion of 106 to 100. Out of every 100 persons now living In this country 60 are single, 35 are married and 5 are widowed. So that,-on the average, one person In every twenty you meet will be either a widow or widower, and three out of five will be unmarried. The most popular time for a woman to get married is from her twenty-first to her twentyfifth year, inclusive. More than onehalf of the women who marry at all marry In these five years of their life, and another quarter marry between the ages of 25 and 30. With men not quite one-half marry between the ages of 20 and 25, and more than a third between the ages of 25 and 30. The average age of marrying is just over 26 for women and just under 28 for men. In the last ten years the average age of marrying has. for men and women alike, gone up half a year.