The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23
SOME MARRIAGE STATISTICS.
The Chances and Tendencies of widow
ers and widows TO Marry Again.
London Times,


The view sometimes expressed, In pleas
antry or otherwise, that marriage presents
illusions to those who have not entered upon
it, and that experience OF 1t has rather q de-
torrent influence with regard to repeating
the experience has lately been put to the test
OF statistical facts by NJ Bertillon.
He inquiries first into the nuptiality or
chance OF marriage Of widowers. II they
equal or exceed bachelors in their ard0r Tor
marriage, the coDjugal state can hardly be
majipped It is necessary here to compare
wldowers and bachelors OF the same ages.
NJ BertillDn accordingly constructs curves
based on data from Holland, being the fullest
obtainable. It appears that Of 1000 men OF
Is to 80 years Of age, llg or III marry sa 8tl
yaer. On the other hand the corresponding
number for wdOwers ls 1856, or three times as
many. At other ages the difference is still
greater widoWers marry four times more
than bachelors Of the same age, and in the
case Of Young men ttwenty-One years and
UNDER the numbers are 300 and respective
ly. Diagrams for France, England and Bel
GUM give like results.
Next the author inquiries into the nup-
tiaIjty Of divorced men, The facts Of their
bad experience Of marriage, their liability TO
rejection as bad spouses, and sometimes their
having children would seem In favor OF their
continuing unmarried. The numbers show
that while up to tweuty-six years OF age
divorced men marry less than these consider
ably. They do not, indet d. attain to the readi-
ness Of the widowers until forty years Of age,
when they actually marry more than widow
ers. fThfs applies To Holland and Switzer-
land, ths only countries from which data
were obtainabe There Is the possible ex-
PLANTATION that some men get divorced from
one wife TO marry another. But like ex-
PLANTATION would hardly apply 70 many
widowers, viz: That they procured the death
Of one wife for another.
| The general conclusion Is that marriage Tar
| from causing regrets In men who contract 1t,
| creates habits, on the contrary the depr1va-
| ton of which is much felt. In the case Of fe-
males NJ. Bertillon obtains similar results
though less decided. From twenty-five tc
thirty years Of age when Dutch girls marry
most, widows are found TO marry about twicf
as much, and a corresponding difference ap
pears throughout similarly in Switzerland
and in England. There are two exceptions u
| this rule, however. In the CITY OF Bprllr
| widows past thirty marry almost exactly II
the same proportion as spinsters, and II
France they marry a little less.
The state of young widowhood seems Il
press the same everywhere. Is the state o
things In France, then, to be explained by say
ing that French husbands are wickeder thai
others 81 prefer to believe" says Nj. Ber
tillon, "that they are, on the contrary, Do
good and that they leave widows absolutel.
fnconsolable Divorced women give curry
pretty similar to that Of divorced men. u
10 about thirty YEARS IF age they marry con
siderably less than spinisters, but beyon
that they show greater disposition to mai
rage even than widows, and this ditferenc
continues TO the end OF life.