MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 94, 21 April 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

j Kentucky has thirteen legal . reasons for divorce. i In twenty years Canada has had » but 116 divorces. , Desertion is the most common cause of divorce in Sweden. i Paris has nearly one-half of the > divorces granted in all France. , Scotland has 15 divorces to every > 1,000,000 in population. Many States forbid marriage ■ between white and Chinese persons. ; Of divorced couples in Germany I over 55 per cent, have no children. l Austria has 26 divorcjs to 1.000 [ marriages. Hungary hut six. i In 85 years there have been in i France 22,865,000 maniages. ; The marriage of first cousins is l forbidden in fourteen States and , territories. i The most common cause for i divorce in Italy is cruelty from the • husband. i In England, to 1,000,000 of popu- ; lation there are nine divorces every • year. Forty States and territories forbid i marriage between an uncle and . niece. There are at the present day 62,062 divorced persons living in ■ Germany. i Bride stealing or abduction is 1 punishable by heavy penalties in all the States. In Austria fourteen is the legal ' , age for marriage for both men and , women. i In all countries January, June, i and July are the favourite months i for marriage. } Heliogabalus divorced one of his wives because she had a mole on her > shoulder. ' Italy in the last twelve yeas has had 2,573,000 marriages and 6,690 ' , divorces. ' i In Colorado a wife was granted a . decree because her husband cut off i her bangs. i All marriages in England must be celebrated before 3 o'clock in the • afternoon. i The average age of widowers : . when remarrying is forty-two, of • widows thirty-nine. ' Twenty-two States forbid by law ' , the marriage of step- children with i their step-parents, i A greater number of widowers : remarry in fcpain than in any other [ country in Europe. l The greater portion of divorced i people in France are between forty and fifty ymra of age. i In no country has the marriage : rate declined so greully in recent i years as in Ireland, i The minimum ago fixed for i marriage in Sparta was thirty for a i man, and twenty for a woman. ' The greater portion of divorces i takes place between the fifth and i tenth year of married life, i Aristotle said that the proper age ; for marriage was thirty- seven for a ; man and eighteen for a woman.