A very depressing catalogue of 100 marriages, published in 1907

[Warpy]

Done by socio economic class, it gives great insight into why we now have a 50% divorce rate. I'm quite frankly surprised it isn't a bit higher.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/03/03/history_of_marriage_a_list_of_100_19th_century_marriages.html

Two other things I took away were an appreciation for antibiotics that cure syphilis and a wish we could bring back "scrofulous" as a great descriptive for feckless, nihilistic youth with criminal tendencies.

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Ah, "traditional marriage"

how admirable.

[Shrike47]

2. I thought scrofulous referred to being ill with scrofula, a form of tuberculosis.

[Warpy]

4. No, the definition had morphed quite a bit in the late Victorian

[gollygee]

3. Oh my

yes that is depressing.

[MadrasT]

5. Extraordinarily interesting.

Thank you so much for sharing it here.