Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1913 — Great Chance of Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Great Chance of Marriage.

It Is estimated that the women of Great Britain have nearly twice aa many chances of being married as the women of any other nation in Europe. This is one of the facts shown in the annual statistical abstract from fUe principal nations of the world, issued, by the English Board of Trade recently. The period covered by the figures is from 189 Sto 1908. In eaefa of these ten years there have been fourteen or sixteen marriages per thousand of the population of Great Britain, while in other countries the rate has remained steady at between seven and eight per thousand,