THE RE-MARRIAGE OF THE WIDOW.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2063, 6 January 1925, Page 3

THE RE-MARRIAGE OF THE WIDOW.

Undoubtedly tin: widow's chances of re-marriage are increasing. In. a woman's younger years it is natural and obvious that the unmarried find husbands in greater number, but when women approach the ago of 40, the widow draws level with the spinster, a.nd beyond that ago she sails merrily away.

Nor is this an entirely new fact in tlio History of marriage. Even before the war she did the same, though not in so marked a manner. In a year shortly before the war 2600 widows of 40 married as against 2700 spinsters of that age. Between the years of 10 and 45 2000 widows found husbands in the same period in Avhich 1200 spinsters did likewise, and between 45 and 50 1200 widows wore successful as against 500 spinsters. When they were between the ages of 50 and 00, 500 of those won husbands were widows and 70 wcer spinsters. Since the war the widows have done better still. They have even reduced the age at which, on the average, they fine second husbands. Before the war this average was 41; now it is 36. Moreover, twice as many widows have married in the last four years as did in any four years before the war. It may be difficult to discover the cause, but undoubtedly the average woman keeps her charm much longer than she did. Nat only does she dress like her daughter, but she is, in fact, much younger than her years. She enters into amusements with the youngest, and at the same time her equipment for conquest is more complete. Not only does >she know moreof the world than the most up-to-date of debutantes; she alsd knows man "so much, better.