Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1914 — ADVANCING AGE OF MARRIAGE. [ARTICLE]

ADVANCING AGE OF MARRIAGE.

Comparison Between Present Conditions and Those of Few Years Ago.. The average age of the community |g becoming older, it was pointed out by the president of the Royal Statlstlical Society of London reoently. It Is interesting to note that the age off marriage has also the same tendency. According to the available returns as many as 40,000 girls marry In England In a year under the age of 21, that 1b in less than one-seventh of the marriages registered. Thirty years, a generation, ago, more tH»n one-fifth of the women marrying In a year were minors. Another interesting fact that sehms to prove this tendency to later marriage is provided by the fl&ures of the last decade. In 1907 the number of marriages of women between the ages of 21 and 26 were. Just over 6,000 more than in 1898, While the marriages of women between the ages of 26 and 20 increased by just over 12.000.