Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — To Encourage Matrimony. [ARTICLE]

To Encourage Matrimony.

Belgium proposes to facilitate marriage by reducing the legal age for. both sexes to 21 years, instead of 25 for the man and 21 for the woman, as the law is now, and by making the consent of the father alone necessary, instead of that of both parents.