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Show Viuorct-t in lndirna. The etuto statlstlcan o, Indiana haa done an tmpoiiunt service of roctology by compiling the statistics ot marriages mar-riages and divorcee throughout the entire state. If the same work could be dono, and done aa thoroughly, In every uther state a more exhaustive study of the divorce question would be possible, and the needs of uniform legislation would be more apparent. The reports of the statistician ahow that during the year ending June 30, 1901, the total number of marriagea In the state was 24,007. and tho total number of divorces granted waa 3.009, or about 13 per cent. Undoubtedly some of these divorces have been granted, but It Is extremely doubtful whether auch a lnrgo percentage of marriages as this should have been annulled. Other stntlstlrs are also of Interest. The divorces grunted to wives were 1,9117, to husbands Coll, and thla la about the proportloua In other statea. It doea not follow from thla that women are more prone to rush Into the divorce courts than men. The causes explain the numerical difference. differ-ence. Or the total (1,G7) divorce! granted to wives 792 were for abandonment abando-nment by husbands and 901 for cruel treatment by them. Theao are euffl-clent euffl-clent causes and explain the apparently appar-ently large proportion ot wlvea seeking seek-ing divorce. |