The Daily Cairo Bulletin

Complaint is made that early marriages are becoming common among the boys and girls in the east end of London. Boys and girls of 12 keep company, and at 14 or 15 every laddie has his lassie. In a single district a boy of sixteen recently married a girl of the same age. In a printing office in one district there are four married boys. The eldest is only 19 and receives 13 shillings a week; the next is 18, has three years of his apprenticeship still to serve, and has two children; the youngest is 16, and has a wife and child to support on 11 shillings a week. Another boy is known whose age is between 16 and 17, and he has two children. Still another boy of 16 has one child.—Philadelphia Record.