The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-09
matrimony M Lewis county.

were ninety.two marriages during the year
1881. This would give marriage ratio Of
a,out seven to the 1000. Counting five
persons as the average family, there are
2,g5s families in Lewis county, There was
therefore a marriage in every Goth fam
ilyot the county. Counting the ratio OF
unmarried persons Of marriageable sge as
fifty per cent Of the whole number Of lami-
lies, aRd there would be in Lewis county
1929 persons capable Of contracting matri-
mony. This number divided equally be-
tween the sexes would give Goa marriage
possibilities in that county.
But the actual number who availed them.
solves Of thor privilege in this respect was
only %, or II per cent, In other words,
only one marriage occurred where seven
were possible. But Of course We could not
expect the whole number oimarriageable
people in county to marry off in one
year, not even in leap year, and last year
was not leap year. There is, therefore, a
marriage reserve In Lewis county for this
year Of 572, plus the contingent that is to
be added by those who will attain the mar
riageable age Just what thisage is in Lewis
county is difficult to determine accurately,
for we observe in the published list Of the
noble 02, that Master Charles VIM, Kittle,
at the age Of fifteen, welded Miss Martha
Melylna Queen who was also aged fifteen.
II the groom's name had correspondent
q little more TO that oil his bride, there
would DC flavor oil royalty about this
juvenile performance. This young woman
has exchanged her regality for kittIe.
. AS matter Of TACT, however, her case is
not peculiar, save IN the name, for most
{ women do the same thing when they
marry.
But coming back oagcs again, we observe
that the average age at which matrin0nY
is contracted in Lewis county is for the men
% years, 8 months and days 1--WE like to
be minute in such important matters) and
Tor the ladies 81 years, 0 months and Z
days. OF the MEN who married in Lewis
2 county last year there were 50 OF them aged
fonly2l years orunder, orabout 35per cent
and oil the females there were 50 aged only
q years or under, or IS per cent of the
& whole number, This shows that in Lewis
county tue good marry young. They do not,
as in other parts oil the world, die young.
They simply die to the world and become
alive to each other Thisis the better way.
II hasalways seemed preferable that good
young people should go off in this shape.
We observe by the list that pretty much
everybody in Lewis county, men and
women, have three names. 1t is the re-
spectable thing to do ont there, as it is in
Spain, to give the children plenty OF names.
Il is looked uppn as good send of in life.
lis only IN unpromising infant or inianta
in Lewis that is restricted to single !rae-
nolnen. Vi course therefore tripIets 1--WE
refer to namesl are the rule.
And speaking Of names, We observe,
notwithstanding we are told there is moth
ing in name, that the Queen family lead
all tho rest in this marrying business in
Lewis. NO less than three OF them went
OH last year We Judge therefore that this
name conduces to matrimony in Lewis
county II some OF the people who live in
the more sparsely settled regions OF West
Ntglnia could have their names changed