"MATHS" AND MARRIAGE
' After -years of calculating stresses and strains in the popular, institution of marriage, .a mechanical engineer of Chicago, who has mado .innumerable investigations • covering' some i 2,000 persons, reported the following findings:— 1. Couples who can remain married for one year have 82 chances in 100 of remaining married for at least .fourteen years or longer. "•.; ':■ ■
2. Those who have lasted for fourteen years have 996 chances hi.looo of holding on for fifteen years longer. :
3. Couples who celebrate silver wedding anniversaries will, 9999 times out of 10,000, huvo golden wedding celebrations if they live that long.
'4. When atann reaches.s3 without being .. married (unlikely except in eight out.o£ 100 cases), the chances that ho .will not continue, to bo a bachelor are only.six'in 100. . : , .: • '•
5. Prom 35 to/ 40, a '-man's marrying chance ft arc abottt 30-50- ■'-.•'
',' 6. Men' who decide to. marry after they reach their forties—-tho dangerous nge-^almosfc-jnyaTiably.want wives nine •years-younger than themselves.
"MATHS" AND MARRIAGE
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 11
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