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Show ' I ' f THC ACE FOR MARRIACC Blstxal Is, S.ts.l. . l,e.l In FaslMsW Hies. Illy lll.l,.a llrrr. The nter.igi. inarriage for men doee not ilitToi- in., ler, ally in those countries itht. h k.-. p nceiirale ninlliiige record. 5 It la Inghc-l, Ihlityotie yeara, In ' Rtveden, nml lowest iii (he United States, twenty siMiii, one half. Among J women It Is nl-o highest in Svtedrn, Ivt.lity ., ht tears and lowest lu Una- sill, twenty two. ' ' '-.. I Some loiintiies ll a minimum mar . ringe nge, below ti lit. Ii n imirrinKe can- ' not he law fully p... r.n ined. In most ; pans of dci miiiiy It Is lined at twen- ' ty-one r...- the bridegroom and elgh- i u for the I-rule. In l.nglnnil It ! sIMci-n nml lll'leen. respei-l Ifely. In l l-'riinee it Is eighteen I, lei fifteen re- ) sp.etuciv. Iii the Hulled Ktatea, where lived. It Is usual twenty one ' for t'.e ll, Hie exceptions being ('nib I' ' fin nin, Tennessee, I tali and Idaho) , and for women, usually eighteen, ex- 5 cept In Mart In nil, California and Ten- lies.ee. The dlfleivut Kliite SIntnteS, i however, make It possilde for two real- f dents of n stale to be married In an- other Slate, tlie laws of which are 1 more lux. t lu liuiopeiiii countries generally the J ntarrlago lavva are ninde excliiNlvrly t f..r the Pencil! of actual resident, and t a choice of foreign country for euch j pin nose Is. therefore, so unusual as to t.econte an exception. J Ho ro ia only one record In history ) of a law whlcli fixed a mnxluiuin age f for inarriage nud under which tbe mar- j rlnge nf men over alxly and women f over fifty tv a a prohibited. It did not I Inst long. f Tlie I.nropenn country In w hleh there J la the largest nmiiher of mnrrbigi s of j men under the age nf twenty-one Is I Rnlu, and the largest proportional number nf brides under tlie age of I twenty-one Is llusln nlso. (lenerally speaking, the marriageable age la low- I est In rural dlstrleta nud In countries 1 chiefly devoted to am-Iriillure, and I ' highest In those countries which have i tlie largest tiumber of big cities. , In respect to marrlngea rundo late In life France, nmong Kuropenn conn- i. tries, Simula first na to men and llel- I glum first aa to women. Denmark, j the rountry which baa the lowest i ! mliiluiiiin marriage age, haa very few marrlngea of very young peraona. la the I'nlted States the average mar ' rluge age la steadily rising. , |