WHY WOMEN MARRY.
1-OVIS NOT IXOM'DKD AMONG TUB HKAKONS. A French statistician has been devotiiij? considerable Liiri- recently io \hseovering the reasons ir which avouch arc. anxious U> set married. His enquiries included questions addressed to ninety-live girls between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, asking •them ivliy 'they wished to get married. The result was as follows: l'ive wished to marry in order that they might go unchaperoncd. Ten because Uley would then lie able to amuse themselves. l'ivo because their husbands would enable, thein to travel. Seven so that they would 'own their own homes. Four looked forward to possessing a family. Three did not wish to marry at all; while sixty-one were anxious to he married, hut could give no spceiiie reason why. None of the girls suggested love as* a motive for matrimony.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 12 April 1907, Page 4
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137WHY WOMEN MARRY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 12 April 1907, Page 4
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