2 statisticians and divorce reformers in Berlin are much interested in the results of an i igation into the extent and causes of divorce among the population of Berlin, just completed by Pro: ey H. Silbergleit, of the Municipal Statistics Department.
Wonian at least the Carman woman—is shown by the professor to be more moral. than man, and ready to bear the burdens of matimony rather than to seck relief from them in the diveres court. Husbands (he shows) are more criminal than wives, less faithful, devoted to duty, more given to deink, more irritable; readier to end an argument by a blow, Whereas it is true that 43 wives during the period which the professor reviews were divorced because they were "inefficient housekeepers," no fewer than 99 men were divoreed by their wives because they were "work shy." The strain of war has told more on the nerves of women in Germany than on those of men, and as a consequence the number of husbands who obtained divorces because of their wives' mental breakdown has been surprisingly great:
The statistics the professor accumulated. prove clergymen—from the standpoint of permanence of marriage—to be the most satisfac-to ud "business men" the least factory husbands. Lawyers, rmy and naval officers, professors and teachers come after the der; in the order named; authors journalists are shown to be unsuatisfactory; artists quite hopeless as husbands. Among manual workers ive their wives the least The life—that beginning with the sixth and ending in the 10th year—is the most dangerous. The largest proportion. of unhappy marriages in Rerlin at least break down during that period.
Bombay, Jan. 20.—General and Lady Baden-Powell have arrived here to reorganize the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movement in India.
—Reuter. and take them off the hands of the Governwent. On the other side. it is common.knowledge now that a very powerful group has been casting eyes on these craft and would have taken them over to run commercially if the Government had not been too exacting in its terms. We have no direct information of what is happening in connexion with them. though we are inclined to think that matters. are moving in the right direction at last. Ye trust it may be so, for the last thing in the world that is desirable is that, possessing the airships we do, we should allow Germany to pioneer the movement towards established commercial service,
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