The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-08
cuRIoslTles OF MARRIAGE.
4 Great Many widowers and widows Re
marry, Sometimes Twice.

IL has been remarked that times OF spec
ulation are invariably accompanied by an
| increase of marriages. DR. Farr, the emil
| nent statistician, hazards thereon the sug-
| gestion that it is the spirit of speculation
| itself that leads many To embark on matri-
mony at such times Another reason,
which he is careful not TO ignore, is the in
creased prosperity that induces and some
times seems To accompany what he calls
the periodical epidemics of speculation.
A great war, after IL is over, Is good for
marriage So is good harvest, SO is the
establishment of new industries or the
| extension of old ones. The reason Is the
| same I'm all these instances-the increased
prosperity of the general body of the peo-
pie. So intimately is matrimony associat-
ed with national well doing that It has
come TO be styled the barometer of prosper
ity. Its indications, however, are more
for the future than for the present dealing
rather with the expected and anticipated
than with the actual. But this only goes
to substantiate what was said of marriage
rs a speculation.
The nation is sometimes extraordinary
sanguine, and when this is the case mar
riages are plentiful Great popular leaders
inspire this feeling A statesman of gen.
ius at the head of affairs peroeptibly in
creases the marriage rate
In word, the great fluctuations in the
marriages are the results of peace after
war, abundance after dearth, high wages
after want of employment, speculation
after languid enterprise, confidence after
distrust and national triumps after ma
tional disasters.
Autumn is the favorite season every
whore. With few spring is preferred Half
the weddings throughout the country are
celebrated on Wednesday and Thursday.
Saturday has more than its average num-
ber Friday is not favorite, as few mar
riages are celebrated on that day.
Widowers are more inclined to marry
than bachelors. Widows are more inclined
to marry than spinsters. Both facts are
eloquent in favor of the comparative ad-
vantages of matrimony. For one bachelor
that marries between the ages of 90 and
55, seven widowers remarry between these
ages. These are marriages out of equal
numbers of each class. The actual num-
Der of bachelors married will be greater
only In proportion as they exceed by seven
to one the actual number of widowers liv-
ing at these ages. Under the same condi-
tions, for every spinster married between
80 and 65 two widows are remarked. In
asmuch as the total number of spinsters
far exceeds that of widows, and the figures
given refer to marriages out of equal num-
beers, this disparity Is not SO noticeable
Its existence, however, is beyond dispute
Similarly, out of an equal number Of wild
overs and bachelors between 20 and 30
years of age, 30 widowers remarry for ev-
cry ID bachelors who enter the bonds of
Hymen for the first time.
Finally, one in ten of the survivors Of
the young men now living and one in
eight of the young women now living will
die as bachelors and spinsters IL they live
to the age of 60 and upward, besides the
great numbers who died at younger ages
New York Dispatch.