THE BEST AGE FOR MARRYING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9307, 9 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE BEST AGE FOR MARRYING.

Ix a meoting of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, M. Joseph Korosi, director of the Budapest Statistical Bureau, road a paper on " The Influence of Parents' Ages on the Vitality of Children." This is a subject which has been hitherto but scantily treated in ethnographical statistics, but M. Korosi has collected about 30,000 data, and has come to the following conclusions : — Mothers under twenty years of age and fathers under twenty-four have children more weakly than parents of riper age. Their children are more subject to pulmonary diseases. The healthiest children are those whose fathers are from twenty-five to forty years of age ; and whose mothers are from twenty to thirty years old. M. Ivorosi .says that the best marriages are tho-je in which the husband is senior to the wife ; but a woman from thirty to thirtyfive yOilrs old will have healthier children if her husband bo somewhat younger than herself. A man from thirty to forty years old ought to take a wife from twenty to thirty. If the mother be five years older than the father the vitality of the children becomes impaired.