[LMB] Ages, (or Little House with Green Gables in Oklahoma) mostly OT:

[Nicholas Rosen]

Pouncer wrote:

> > Which conforms seemingly well with Mark A's rule:
 
> >The bride should be half the groom's age, plus seven years.
> >  Groom - 18
> > Bride - 16
 
> Or (and better) 24 and 19, yes?
 
> I thought I remembered that rule as one of Aristotle's
> rather than  frontier folklore.

If I recall Aristotle's _Politics_, his view was that girls should
not marry too young; they should be seventeen or eighteen
or so.  Men should marry at thirty-five.  Weird.


Regards,
Nicholas Rosen
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