Show EXPERTS PLACE 2 ON r CHILD IW MARRIAGE NEW YORK March larch 13 After 13 After investigating in in- the problem of ot child marriages the Russell Sa Sage e foun- foun jn a report made public today to- to Jay day says Its study dispels the idea hat there is something idyllic abOut such you youthful unions i The Investigators Investigators' conclusions of are are e opposed opposed to marriage at too young joung ou an age because of ot the physical physical cal cal and mental Immaturity of ot the Contracting parties or because Inthe in inthe inthe the the case of a girl child married to toan toan toan an an older roan man neither may ever know know the meaning of t genuine com- com tr hr in the marriage relation L' L T The e foundation recently declared t that t- t there are persons persons in tie United States who were mar- mar Jed when under 16 The percentage percent- percent age pt of marriages of girls gills 15 to 19 11 years ears old is lowest in New York City and in New England On the Pacific coast and in mountainous states it is twice the New England percentage and in the central southern south- south ern states three times as high marriages are most prevalent prE in remote rural regions j As As railroads automobiles tele- tele ones nes the telegraph and spa ne' newspapers pers rs comes to these lonely sections ethe the investigators believe it probable hat W t child marriages will decrease 1 It It was found the report repot re- re t po port that in certain isolated com- com there were not only very ery early rl marriages but so many intermarriages inter Inter- marriages among the cousins of one tone family strain that sometimes three-fourths three of the inhabitants of ofa j a village have the same surname re fr The foreign habit of ot early marrage mar- mar rage does not persist after the first generation the report says In l fact the foreign girls of ot th the second are actually marrying at ata a later ter age than native girls |