Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 31: January, 1928 A recent summary Of a report of the U. 8. Government through the Department of Commerce, states that Divorce is increasing faster than marriage in the United States. The report shows that the increase in marriages amounted to per cent during 1926, as compared with 1925; while divorces increased per cent in the same period. In other words. The marriages performed in 1926 numbered an increase of over the number for 1925; and the divorces for 1926 numbered an increase of over the divorces for 1925. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.