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Show Early Marriage Not Best for Happiness permanent character traits that are unfavorable to success in family life, or that the boy or girl under twenty-one twenty-one has not a sufficiently broad experience expe-rience to select a mate with whom a successful home can be established. If Immaturity rather than permanent perma-nent Instability is the cause, postponement postpone-ment of marriage and educational guidance may do much to eliminate domestic disaster. The Ideal age for marriage Is twenty-nine years for the groom and twenty-four for the bride, according to a report in the Journal of Social lly giene. Deviations of four years on either side for the groom and of two years for the bride make Utile difference, differ-ence, but marriage In which either party is nineteen years or younger are from ten to a hundred times as risky as at the Ideal age. These conclusions were reached from a study of 1,000 Impartially selected se-lected cases from the domestic relations rela-tions court of Philadelphia. The two most plausible explanations for the findings are either that premature or delayed marriage Is a symptom of |