EARLY MARRIAGES.
PROMOTE HONG LIFE. Ho early marriages conduce to long life? A very positive answer in the affirmative is given to this question by a writer in the London Daily Mail, who produces an array of statistics calculated to strike terror into bachelors and spinsters. Single blessedness, so far from being blessed, is in reality an alarming state, conducing to death, disease, insanity,, suicide, and crime. It is bachelors and spinsters, we are told, who die of the ’ prevailing diseases, who fill the mental hospitals, populate the gaols, and over' whom the Coroner sits. One record taken in Scotland from 100.000 individuals shows that the. deaths ■ among the wedded from 25 to 30 years were 865. Among the unma -
ried the deaths were 1869. From 65 to 70 the deaths among the unmarried were 10143; among the married 8055# In Strasburg, in an outbreak! of meningitis, only 19 husbands and wives were among the 90 victims who died. Among 764 male lunatics only 201 were married. Three single women go mad to every married woman. Twice as many celibates as marled people take their own lives. One investigation shows that out of 100 criminals ( 60 were unmarried. Men and women, particularly the latter, who have been regarded as invalids or semi-invalids before marriage, frequently regain health in conjugal life. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of these statistics, but married folk may find consolation in them (it is not suggested that consolation is needed), and procrastinating young men and maidens may well take them to heart as an awful warning.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1736, 11 February 1921, Page 2
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