WOMAN’S CHANCES OF MARRIAGE.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 49, 27 July 1908, Page 8

WOMAN’S CHANCES OF MARRIAGE.

Taking the earliest marrying age to be fifteen, which is the minimum in most civilised countries, and letting 100 represent her entire chance of marrying, at certain points of her progress through life a woman’s chances of marriage stand in the following ratio Between the Per cent.

age of 15 and 20 years 14* 20 and 25 „ 52 25 and 30 „ 18 30 and 35 „ 15* 35 and 40 u 3f 40 and 45 ' „ 2* 45 and 50 l( fof 1 50 and 60 „ i of 1 Above the age of sixty her chances are only l-10th of 1 per cent., or one in a thousand. That marriage is a lottery is a time-worn saying, but Sir Francis Gal ton has been investigating the results so far as temper is concerned with the following curious results, based on the peculiarities of 205 couples. He found that 53 per cent, of wives had good tempers, against only 46 per cent, of good humoured husbands ; twentytwo husbands had but mild and docile wives, and twenty-four of them had fretful, violent and masterful wives. Of fifty-four bad tempered men, thirty-two had good tempered and twenty-two had bad tempered wives. It was also that 23 per cent, of wives are fretful, 13 per cent, violent, and 6 per cent, masterful.