East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-01-24
NATIONS LOVE TALES
SET FORTH IN BOOK
BRIDES OF OF ALL AGES
WED MEN OF ALL KINDS
Registrar General of Great Britain
Prepare Book Giving Details of
Births. Deaths and Marriages in
t90S-Divorccs Are Increasing
Average Woman Marries at &c, Man
at 2S.

London.-The one blue book of the
year in which every figure has ro-
nance behind II has been issud by the
registrar general. giving the detailed
analysis of the births, deaths and
marriages in 1908.
The specially interesting portion of
the book is that which takes the mar
riage registers of England and Wales
and reveals some interesting secrets
about the love stories which brought
about the 264,940 marriages which
took place in the year.
Here, for instance, are few facts
which might give hints to the novel
ist in search of a plot:
one bride of fifty married a bride
| groom of twenty
one girl of fourteen was married to
n youth of nineteen, while another
| girl of the same age found husband
twenty-one years old.
Differences i'm Ages.
| Among the brides who found hus-
bands over seventy years old were
one aged nineteen. one aged twenty
| and two aged twenty-five.
Two old women over seventy-five
years of age married men over eighty
! five years while in all seventy-seven
We're married who were over seventy
years of age. three finding bride
grooms under forty-five years of age
and twenty-sX under sixty-five years
while forty-eght married men as old
as. or older than. themselves.
Three women between twenty-five
and thirty years of age married
youths of seventeen years. while 81
women between thirty and thirty-five
married husbands who were under
90 years OF age.
In 54.474 marriages both bride and
bridegroom were between twenty-one
and twenty-four years of age. while
in 3S,9S4 marriages the husband and
wife We're between twenty-five and
thirty years of age.
There were in all 52,S32 brides who
were older than thir bridegrooms
Two widows of twenty years mar
ried bachelors between nineteen and
twenty years. while fourteen widows
between twenty-five and thirty-five
years of age married bachelors who
were twenty years.
One widow of fifty. one of fifty-fve
and one of sixty years married bach
elors between twenty-one and twenty
five years of age.
Fourteen widows over seventy years
of age found second husbands whose
ages varied from thirty to eighty
years.
The widowers who remarked num-
bered 22,761, and of these 1853
chose spinsters, while S16S chose Wild
ows. OF the 1871 widows who re-
married 1929 took bachelors for their
second husbands
Weds Widower of Twenty.
One spinster between twenty-five
and thirty years Of age married wild
over of twenty years while one spin
ster aged nineteen married a wldower
aged seventy years.
1t is pointed out that the number
of marriages unmade by the divorce
court is steadily growing each year.
but at the same time there is a large
increase in the number of divorced
persons who remarry. Here are the
figures.
1906 1903
Persons divorced .,....1,092 1914
Divorced persons remar-
ried ........... 616 1OS
The '365 divorced men who remar-
ried found brides as follows: 276
spinsters. 63 widows, &c divorced wo-
men who remarked found bride
grooms as follows: 267 bachelors 80
widowsrs and 26 divorced men.
n In
crease shown in the age at which men
and women marry, the average age
now being 2S7S years for the bride
grooms and 2661 for the brides. In
London the average age Is even high
er. reaching 1856 for the BRIDE
grooms and 26.9S for the brides.