The Round Table.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 9, 8 December 1883, Page 3

The Round Table.

. j • 1 Lord Mansfied trying an action, which arose oat of the 'collision of two ghips at sea, a sailor who gave an acooant of the accident said, " A.t the tim rt I was sMndinsr aH-i<t thf» binnacle " " Where is abaft the binnacle /" inter-* pos»d his lordsfujv <ii > wuil"S<, who Was Half dronU, ex 1 >vi •< eJ a oul, " firety f liow to ba a pi's* 1 , vjic do^s riot know^where abiii t .»$ bi m »cl v 1 tiord Mansfie!d, iastea i "f rhr^'teniug to commit him for contempt ( f court, i quietly said, " Well, my friend, fit mfir my office by teling me where abaft the binnacle is; you h»re . already shown mo the meaning of half seas o^er'r ' jlt is found that young men from fifteen to twenty years of age marry young women averaging two or three years older than themselves ; but if they delay marriage until they are twentyone or twenty-five years old their spouses average a year youngor than themselves, and thenceforward this difference increases, till oii extreme bid age on the bridegroom's part it is apt to be enormous. Again, the husbands of young women aged twenty and uuder average a little above twenty-five years, and thp inequality of age diminishes thenceforward, till, for women who have reached thirty, the respective ages are equal. After thirty -five years, women, like men, marry those younger than themselves, the disproportion increasing with age, till at fifty-five it averages nine years. •