Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — Marriage Is Not a Failure. [ARTICLE]

Marriage Is Not a Failure.

Marriage is not a failure, for the man, at least, if a German investigator may be believed. He has been interviewing Insurance companies, and visiting hospitals and insane asylums, and he has now promulgated the pleasing result of his labors. He finds that of the men who die, commit suicide or become insane or seriously ill in early life, the greater number are bachelors. He says that diseases of the digestive organs are the ones which cause the most trouble to unmarried men. This is a distinct compliment to the good cooking of the average wife. Among matrimonial statistics the following French ones are interesting: Thirteen out of 100 young women marry between the ages of 15 and 20; between 20 and 25 the average Is 60 out of 100; between 25 and 80, 22 out of 100; between 30 and 35, 12 out of 100; from 35 to 40, 6 out of 100; from 40 to 45, only 5; and from 45 to 50 just one solitary Woman but of the hundred.