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Show Jn -; mS 20 WII'D Y; COUNTY RECORDS Frcm 18 (o 25 tbc Pcpu-; Pcpu-; Iar Age for Salt Lake Brides; June Is tbc . Banner Month.' -j , During the year 1302 there were 1280 marriages consummated In " Salt Lake county. A record of each, one of these marrlagres fs kept In a large book in the ' I v': MARRIAGES BY MOUTHS FOR A YEAR. The 1280 marriages for the year 1902 are divided among- the months as follows: . ' ' ' . January ; 701 July 71 February r 77 August 108 March 65 September 125 April ...... .108 October 152 May... '. 84 Novemberi. 101 June . ...... ISO December 129 i' rt'r " hi. i office of the County Clerk, and In this record the ages of the bride and groom . are chronicled. From this part of the records some interesting, if not valua- ble, lnfprmatlon on marriages chances has been secured. ''. .. . ' Taking Salt Lake county, the prlncl-; pal one Jn the State, as typical of the others In respect .to marriage, and talking ta-lking 1902 as an average year, the fol-lowing fol-lowing figures may be taken as reliable Y In regard, to marriage In the State of lruh: : June the Banner Month. f The 'old saying that June Is the banner ban-ner month for weddings holds good here, nearly one-sixth of the marriages occurring In that month. December, , for some unaccountable reason, Is the next In order of popularity, having nearly one-ninth to Its credit. Of the . conference months, April and October, the latter easily outclasses the former, which is no doubt due to the fact that a lafrger number of matrimonially inclined in-clined persons are drawn to the city by the State fair, held In the fail t month. Of the 'total number of ceremonies performed one-twelfth" were In April and one-eighth In October. March falls lowest In the list. .Wide Range in Ages. The aires of those who submitted to the ceremony which makes of a man a husband and of a woman a wife rrngein years from the little girl of 15 to the jgray and bent man of 82. It may be somewhat of a surprise to learn that the wife, in one out of every twelve marriages. Is older than the husband. The fact that the parties to the contract in one marriage out of ' every eleven are both of the same age Is certainly remarkable. It Is perfectly natural that girls should marry at an earlier ase than boys, but it appears to be unusual that there should be so many more of the "weaker sex" who marry before they have become of age. ' In one out of every thirty-seven marriages the girl is under 18 years, while the boys who have not yet celebrated their twenty-first twenty-first birthday the ratio Is one out of ' every sixty-one. Popular Age for Brides. " ' In the old novels 17 was the popular age at which the heroine should wed, and It has been maintained Jhat after " 24 a woman had no" reason t& believe that she could ever be loved for her- self, and that her matrimonial chances were therefore very slim; but In this age, and In Utah, it is different. From 18 to 25 years. Inclusive. Is the age at which more1 than two-thirds of the women wo-men assume the responsibilities of wives: and nearly one-half of the men who marry tio so when they are from 21 to 25.. Inclusive. - But beyond the age of 2 the opportunities oppor-tunities of the woman to marry become fewer at a much more rapidly diminishing dimin-ishing ratio than do those of the man. Between 26 and 30 the figures show that the ratio is one out of four among the men and but one out of seven for the women; from 31 to 40 Is the age at which the difference is more particularly particu-larly noticeable, being one out of .five for the men and only one out of eleven for thf other sex. From 41 to 60 -years the opportunity ot the man comes with every twelfth ceremony, while the woman wo-man has to wait for every twenty-eisrhth. twenty-eisrhth. - , , ,w When the age of 80 Is passed the chances of the. woman are one In every 1280, but the old man's turn comes every eighty-fifth time. Marrying Widowers. It is certainly true that widowers remarry re-marry more than bachelors marry, because. be-cause. It Is said, the widower knows the worst and has little to fear in marrying marry-ing again, and It is equally true that widows have a greater chance of remarrying re-marrying than spinsters have of marrying, mar-rying, the reason to be assigned being that "A little widow-is a dangerous . , thing." to the average young man. But . 1 It Is difficult to obtain any reliable data 'jiyUpon this phase of the Question. |