The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-04-10
Don't be in a Hurry to Get arsrri.a.

Girls, don't be in a hurry to get mar.
ried. If you are but sixteen, don't al
low such All idea to get into your head
for at least four years. Don't aver run
the risk of it by permitting any young
man to get so far as the proposing point.
Fight them off, and make them wait or
go to somebody who is ready. Don't
live under the impression that you must
accept the first love-sick youth
who proposes. Be patient. deliberate
and sagacious. There is a world
of happiness for you between six
teen and twenty. The world would
be a dreary old world if ii
were not for the sweet faces of young
girls with their piquant sayings ard
melting smiles.
After you have reached twenty, il
would be well to consider the matri-
monial problem with some seriousness.
Then if you have learned to think and
deliberate you will probably make a
suitable selection, and marriage with o
worthy man is not only a woman's priv
ilege, but unless married too young,
her best and highest developments,
mental and physical, can be attained In
this state. Men and women were made
for each other, and q very old
but nevertheless true truism is
that bonnu ,oarrsaOa IL the
very Garden of Eden. An unhappy
marriage is the reverse and the greatest
of all calamities that can befall a pure,
affectionate, and noble woman. Faith
iii God, and a strong resolve to do every
duty, can alone keep such a one from
absolute despair. Miss Braddon says:
"a good woman who does not love her
husband makes the best wife, If this
is true it is because she is controlled by
duty instead of the changing caprices Of
affection. Trouble in the flesh" will
come to every married couple. Why
not accept it? The most wretched
married people / have aver known
were al ways quite willing and
even anxious to see their children set
tied for life in marriage, knowing that
they would find shelter and protection
thereby, if not in the affection, at least
by the law, which compels the husband
to support his wife, a support perhaps
meager enough and grudgingly be-
slowed. Look around on all your
friends, married or single, and ask
yourselves the question, which is the
preferable lot. If you are strong
enough TO fight alone the battle of life,
to earn your own bread and butter, you
are just in the condition to gain the re-
spect. at least, of O husband, and, ..hav-
ing q hearty, genuine respect, admira-
ton and love are not far distant. The
truth is, dear girls, too many enter
this holy condition, hoping to find 1t ID
only ease, adulation, and pleasure.
Such persons will find the reverse
of what they seek. Read Tenny.
sons Princess" Had not he the trus
conception of happiness in this condi-
ton?
A man must be bad, indeed, that car
treat with disrespect q woman who re-
spects herself. As q rule Q good womax
will make o good home-we know of ex.
ceptions to this, however. But If You
have made up your minds to follow the
bent Of your W wills and pave q way
for yourselves, you may do well; but. ia
| those who intend to enter the married
state, should q good opportunity ceme ia
them, I have only to say, see to it tha'
you individually understand what is re-
| quired Of you as q wife. Be wiling K
make concessions at any time If in the
wrong and, above all things, don't ino
fault with your husband before others.