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Show MAKES MEN GOOD. ' Harrying, As a General Rule, Improves Im-proves the Man. f Friedrich Prinzing has just published in Germany some of the results of his study of the influence of marriage upon the criminality of men. From criminal statistics he deduced that property-rights property-rights of all kinds are respected more generally by the married than by the single. , Such graver offenses as robbery, rob-bery, extortion and fraud are commit-, ted by married men with comparative infrequency. When he is driven to the unlawful acquirement of material goods he generally chooses some less dangerous danger-ous method. Receiving stolen goods, breaking of laws relative to trade, commerce com-merce and public health, forcible detention deten-tion of pieces of property, bankruptcy, etc., are the forms which offenses against property usually take among married men. Among those married at extremely early age trespasses against the rights of property are more common com-mon than among the unmarried of a corie;ronding age- This is explained by the fact that poverty is frequently concomitant con-comitant or result of such marriages. Incendiarism is found most largely among the unmarried between 30 and 60 years of age. The unmarried outrun the married in the offenses against morality, mor-ality, and also in those against human life, but the married surpass the unmarried un-married in careless and negligent killing kill-ing and wounding. The difference in criminality between the married and the unmarried grow less with advancing advanc-ing years. Between the ages of 50 and 60 years it is small, and after that it is even less. Drunkenness claims the major ma-jor share of its victims between the ages of 30 and 50 years. The criminality of widowers between the ages of 30 and 50 years is notably greater than that of other classes. .The loss of the wife - frequently leads to mental derangement and certain kinds of self-control are difficult for this class to exercise. In general there isa decrease de-crease in .criminality of the married the longer they have been in the married mar-ried state. Among the restraints which marriage places upon the married man is the fear of bringing disgrace upon his family and lasting shame upon his children. The temptation of the married mar-ried man to indulge in the pleasures of the public house is less than that of the single man. With the need of defending and supporting a family there comes, too, increased respect for religion, law and property, the defending and supporting sup-porting of the institutions of society. Lastly, a strong deterrent effect of marriage upon criminality results from j the influence of constant and intimate i association of the man with a member j of the sex whose criminality is low j compared with that of his own. i |