"May and December."
At the trial of a divorce case, the parties to which were n nobleman of advanced years and his yoniig wife, the judgo remarked that this wag another instance of the evil effects of "marriages contracted between May and December." Shortly afterward the learned judge received a letter from the secretary of a Scotch statistical society, intimating that that body would bo obliged if he would favor them with an account of the facts from which ho derived the singular rule enunciated by him as to the infelicity of marriages solemnized during certain months of the year, and adding that some of the members wished to utilize the information which might thus be afforded them in the shape of a paper to be read before the society, with a view to publio discussion. —London Standard.
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Manawatu Herald, 18 July 1896, Page 4
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138"May and December." Manawatu Herald, 18 July 1896, Page 4
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