Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1912 — Woman’s Chances. [ARTICLE]

Woman’s Chances.

The plan of the Brooklyn prießt who suggests a fine of SIOO for every young man wko reaches his twentyfifth birthday unmarried, and a legal requirement that every Unmarried'woman must propose at least three times each leap year, recalls an Interesting table which was once complied. Reckoning a woman’s entire chance of marrying at 100, toe table purports to give her varying chances at different times of life. For example, between the ages of 15 and 20 her chance is 14 % per cent** Between 20 and 25 It jumps to 52 per cent, falling between 26 and 80 to 18, and to 15 per cent, between 80 anl 35. After 40 itj is only 2 per cent, and after 60 she has only one chance in 1,000. v The priest thinks that “training, ; tradifion and the natural bashfulness i jA toe American girl”, keep her from, speaking first Undoubtedly they do, and it Is to be hoped they will con-; tinuesotodo. “Natural bashfulness,”; as the father calls it, will go farther i and faster in getting a good husband; than any amount of cultivated boldness. f