Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1899 — Second Marriages Not Popular. [ARTICLE]

Second Marriages Not Popular.

While first marriages are looking up, in second marriages there has been a marked and steady decline during the last quarter of a century. Nearly onefourth of all the marriages twenty-four years ago were second ones on the part of either the bridegroom or the bride. Now they form but one-sixth. And men must be disconcerted to see It is the widow and not the widower who most commonly avoids the second adventure.