The mountain Democrat., 1863-01-03
4-~EERTHHR

Metfaneo = ttie fh493sNssisf pSNAL y ff'o'ss,
kind. There never can be lasting good
healtb Fjthoptit;AiS an iHCospibl itFs
except Combined with criminal practices.
A person may AVe in geod health to the
age Of twenty five, but T. PaEriags is d.
ferred ttyond that, every months delay
is the eating out, morn and more, the very
essence of life, and the ,yorR Of certain
disease and premature death burrows the
more deeply into the vitals. On the 9TH
er hand, marriage not later thap twenty
five proiongs fife. II was for this reason
u,,,icsd, sNsAN three thousand years ago.
, ESal me snoisnts dedicated q, temple to
Hymcn, the god OF youth-that is, " to
the deitv which pEolOngB youth: "'' Men
anil womon get older more rapidly when
they remain single, and die off more rap
idly-the men, from filling INTO diSstpa-
ted habits and Irregularities. The wo-
man. true to natures instincts, and living
in her purity, grows less end less viva'
cious, and By slow degrees settles down
10 iaGctir~.> n feshleness, and in Prema-
ture decline.
,Gs SA5s. .a,& r's9 IL unmarried, he 1eelS-,
himself unfixed, unsettled and keen bu-
sincSs men consider him insecurr, because
nc can any day pack up his trunk and
disappear. The most magnificent swim
.dlevs IN Wall street, those for the very
largest amounts, were unmarried men.
There has always existed, from very
carly ages, u general and almost instinct
i've prejudice against those who remain
unmarried after thirty. Iycurgus lcgis-
lated against cclibacy, and Cato Out'awed
female celibateS at twenty-five, and bach
xlsPs Of thirty-a<e. Il vas q creed Of thc
earlier nations, that the souls Of those
who died unmarried were doomed to
eternal wandering.
In the present state Of society, If the
daughter should be encouraged to marry
at twenty -one, and the sOn at twenty tive,
vigorous health and moral purity would
bc promoted thereby. Pride and coward
ice join in delaying marriage; but let the
fearful statistics Of the larger cities Of the
world tell the sad story Of generalization.
In Milan there are thirty two illcgitmates
out Of every hundred children born; in
Paris, thirty-threc; in Brussels, thirty
five; in Munich, forty eight; in Vienna,
| fiftv.
Out Of every hundred suicides, sixty
seven are single.
Of the Eapless insane, out of one hun
dred and seventy-two. nincty-eight were
single, seventy four married.
CcIbacy is n constant cause for prcma
ture death. or one hundred and twenty
who arc forty eight years old, eighty will
he marriei, only forty single. In ono
hundred single men, only twenty-five will
live to be sixty years old. OF one hum
drcd married men, forty eight will live t.
that age. OF dozen men OF eighty years.
nine will be married, three single. Not
only marry young, but marry out Of yomr
family. The effects Of marrying cousins,
for example, even to the third degree, are
fearful to contemplate. OF one hundred
and fiIty-four cousin-marriagcs, in Dub
lin, there were one hundred deaf and
dumb children. Dr.. Buxton. of Liver
pool, states that, in one hundred and nine
such marriages, each family had one deaf
and dumb child; thirty-eight Of them had
two deaf mutcs; in seventeen Of them
there were three; three had four; one
had six; one had seven and one had eight
deaf mutcs-that is, two hundred and
sixty. mine children born deaf and dumb,
to one hundred and nine cousin-marriages.
The cohsanguincous marriages in France,
are two per cent. Of the whole population.
or their children twenty eight per cent
are deaf mutes in Paris, twenty-five at
Lyons, thirty at Bordeaux while as to
the Jews, twenty seven per cent. oftthe
offspring Of such marriages arc deafmutcs,
one sixth per cent. Of Christian parents
Jews oftencr marrying blood relations.
In England, where Bible teachings more
than any other country prevail, and dis
countenance cOHsanguIncous marriages as
well as private prohigacy, only six per
cent. of such children born are deaf mutes,
instead OF thirty, as when the English do
marry relations, they are more distant /;
and only six per rent. Of those born arc
illcgitimatc, instead Of fifty -onc per cent
as the direct result of the teachings OF
that blessed book-.[EIall's Journal Of
Health.
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