Show GROWTH OF DIVORCE I In 1870 3V per cent of all mqrrlages In the United States ended In divorce courts In 18S1 the percentage had L risen to 1 IS In 1890 It was 62 and in 1900 It was S per cent In other words the percentage of divorces to marriages riages In this country has more than doubled since 1870 The total number of divorces in the i t United States for a given year was 23427 During the same year20111 divorces 7 di-vorces were granted in all the wOIld outside of the United States There was an excess of 3361 divorces In this country as compared with the remainder re-mainder of the world Of foreign countries F coun-tries the smallest number sin > s-in the given year was In Canada where only f twelve Were granted Next till to the United States the largest number I num-ber was in France with 6245 In the year Germany was a close second with only 100 less I I From n religious standpoint there are about seventythree divorces to every 100000 Catholics while divorces 1 for the same total among Protestants are 233 S More than 40 per cent of all divorces granted In the United States Is on the ground of desertion and divorces are five times as frequent In the city an in the country districts Chicago Tribune iLT Trib-une |