COMFORT FOR THE MARRIED.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 153, 28 June 1879, Page 4

COMFORT FOR THE MARRIED.

Notwithstanding the free love teachings of old Fathers Noyes, Oneida celebrity, and notwithstanding the unorthodox and dangerous doctrines of Bradlaugh and Besant, it now .turns out that after all married life is the life to lead. Statisticians say to, and what, they say must be correct. Bachelors may laugh in their sleeves at the troubles and vicissitudes of their married friends;, and ! spinsters.^may vainly imagine that they have the best of it. But when figures are forthcoming, the true facts of the question are, revealed. Statistics, then, irrefwgably, prove tfoafc marriage is an honorable institution, promotive of morality j and. that a quiver full of children are a great blessing. Of course #ns is nothing new, having been known for generations past. But Mr Bartillan, of Brussels; -has recently been making investigations into the matter ; and in these times it is just as well for married people ( to be reminded of their position and character, as so much bettor and loftier than the unmarried, and especially if the former have families. Amongst • other things, Bartillan proves that married people exhibit less tendency to suicide, to mental derangement, to assassination, to theft, and other crimes ; while he also states that married men who have families commit less crime than married men who have not. Ifc would occupy too much space to give the reason, why these things are 50.;., but these 'facts may tend to make married people more highly appreciate their domestic state and also to impress upon those who are unmarried, the .important truth: a, matrimonial life is' not to be sneezed* ,at. There is one other matter that Bairtillaa. states as true, namely, that " widowers commit suicide more than married met." This fact should make,, spouses pauget before extracting from thei? ,husbau4; a promise ' that they will never marry again. ! Poor fellows^ so intense is their grief When losing the, wives of their bosoms, that, if they do not get a second wife, they occasionally put an end to their existence. Do wives really know bow highly they are valued, and if they are removed what inconsolable grief the loss of their husbands ?'