DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14599, 24 February 1921, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

Do early marriages conduce to lonsr life? A very positive Marriago answer In the affirmative and is given to this question Longevity- by a writer in the London Daily Mall, who produces an array of statistics calculated to strika 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 baohelors 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 unmarried the deaths were 1309. From 65 to 70 the deaths among -the unmarried were 10,143; 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 married people take their own livea- 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 sugge'stct that, consolation is needed), and procrastinating young men and maidens may well take them to heart as an awful warning of the fate that awaits the unwed.