Show MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE i t tc c EUROPE when we read reail me the statistics of the births in the city of augsburg munich and vienna and find that not less lesi than one third are illegitimate we are struck with horror but bat unless we are informed of the causes orthis of this state of things we invariably draw wrong conclusion conclusions As the laws do not allow marria marriage e until the parties can how show proper ty enough enouch to furnish furnish a kind of security a against I 1 ainest future want great numbers in including eluding a greater portion of the servants are excluded from marriage at least lewit until late in life the result is that nearly all the female servants have children whose fathers they sometimes subsequently marry it sometimes happens too and not onfre antl y that others than servants live together without marriage and either afterward part or are married alter they have a family grown up around them some men who have not been able to marry go to america and anil afterwards send for their unmarried wives and bcd their children others bo however wever forget those they have left behind in prussia tibe he case is 13 a highly favorable one where but one seventh of the births are mate in prussia there are yearly between 2 and divorces and from sixty to seventy applications for divorce occur anat anal annually lally la In fingle single congregations in in bailin where morality suffers so much religion must buffer suffer more german correspondence of watchman and reflector |