The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-19

taken tG prevent her. Parents have
right to look after the future OF their
daughters, if the girls themselves have not
TIE Judgment to do it.
MRS. JOHN c. SPooNER.
next called upon Mrs. Senator Spooncr,
and asked her as to the age of the modern
bride. She said;
"There would be fewer divorces if all
women married at twenty-five, but more
seriously the average girls constitution is
not hardy until she is twenty-four or
twenty-five. Also, a woman should have
chance TO preve herself, and TO show an
ability TO take care of herself before she
marries. A man honors woman who
gives up career to be wife"
Should every woman Martyr q asked.
YES" replied Mrs. Spooner, |'if she
consults her own happiness for there is
little that woman cannot do;after she
marries that she might haze done had she
remaineda spinster.''
Mrs. Spooner raised her hands with
pretty tragic gesture and rolled her eyes
in serio4comic fashion as [ put the question
of whet a girl should marry for!
SfLove, and love aloae,' she said. 81
cannot conceive, considering the peculiarly
delicate relations of leHsbandrnnd wife.how
any Toman can marry for ought but love
The only possible exception might be
where a girl, like Thelkla, has lived and
loved, and is quite sure she can never love
again. Then admiration, boundless es-
TEEN and a fair degree of friendship might
excuse a girl for marrying for home.
Strange to say, many such marriages have
resulted better than those of extravagant
Faoven
Mrs. Spooner concluded by a characteri-
zation of ideals that would have made
Swinburne or Oscar Wilde faint and fall.
Marry first love. Faugh! a giCl
should never Inarry her ideal. To use a
to an ideal man. When | think of the half
grown boys L admired when 1 was sixteen
-faugh,'
MRS. SESAPGREGeKRELL' OPINIONS.
81 do not believe in early marriages. ~
said Mrs. Senator Cockrell emphaticallN.
land / even think there are some happy
ones when "a girlof twenty marries a man
of forty, as witness the marriage of Presi-
dent Cleveland and Miss Folsom. know
when L was young l looked with high dis
dain upon men ofimy own age, and thought
If l could find aiman as noble and good as
my father j should marry him, no matte r:if
he was es,Old.''
But about early marriages 20 said l.
1.-The, case is against them" said Mrs.
Cockrell, ''if lone studies Washington
| society for G,year. You cannot live here
even that length of time without seeing
hundreds of prominent men whose wives
are markedly anterior to them.''
What is the reason!n
''ln nine cases out of ten you VIII find
that they were boy and girl matches. The
| giri he's too~soon assumed the responsible
ties of wife and mother, and has often be
| come ,querulous, petty and indifferent tx
improvement, while her husband he's ad
uaaced- every moment until there is hardly
a common point upon which they can meet
1t is the most pitiful thing in the world
and 1Venture to say the next generation
will rarely see it, for girls are every de
caaei marrying later"
in reply to the query whether girl,
should ever marry out of their 'ewn Fanl
in life, Mrs. Cockrell expressed xholesom,
dstlaiu
THEN own rank, faugh, There is n,
such thing in this country. While IL do no
think a girl should marry hex father,
iceachman, think that she should take an
poor man who asks her if she loves him
Two thirds of our public men were poo
Iaase."
SoIRs. SENATOR CULLoM
Rarely before twenty-five, and uofte
not until thirty was Mrs. Senator Gu
lomis decision on the question OF age. Z.
have-seen many case where people mai
riSd for admiration and esteem at thirty
and are much happier than those that MAJ
rie6j from capricious love at twenty"
sAIRs. SENATOR wALTH4EE.
Girls mature at an earlier .ege in on
Southern States, and the opinion of B.
, ted>southern woman is worthy of consi6
Grafton. i called upon the wife o. Senate
! NGlthall, Of Mississippi, and asked her t
give her views. She said:
"a girl should marry any time that,sh
4 falls in love after she is eighteen, but sh
must be sure that it is love and not liking
| / cannot say that l have noticed that girl
!, marry later now than they once did. lWhe
/ was in Mississippi last year, found tina
tive chEnT daughters friends had Marie
before they were seventeen. Indeed, on
of them was only fourteen, and whenlI say
her she had two pretty babies, ,and,wa
, seemingly as happy as if she had waite
! until she was twice as old.''
, SHOULD girl choose for herseff?"
asked.
Marriage is girls own affair, .and-sh
should pick her husband, although sh
should pay heed to the advice Of olde
| people
= IA GoNGRESSMAN'S WIFE.
"a thorough education is within til
reach ofevery girl at this day. said Mr.:
not marry as young as they did fifteen c
tEenty% years ago. There is so rauch NOR
IN life for a woman now than there wa
then, .anc,as long as marriage taazeE frol
, twenty to thirty years of their lives, the
8 should gipe4st least five years to premiscl
= GUS studying, after they leave school TT
! next generation will be the better for til
! increased intelligence of the mothers. N
/, twenty five is none too old.n
"LcwE Is ALL,'' SAYS MRS. GENERAL LsaGA,
; at is a matter of mating, not of years,
, said Mrs ,Gea eral Logan, when q gi
meets the man she loves, whether she
eighteen, twenty or twenty-five, she sheul
! marry him. Love cannot be regulated 4
= years. / speak from the standpoint
! twentyfv years ago. There may /
+ more in life for "a girl now than marriag
but the girl who waits will find one da
that il is the only true life for worna,
But we can hardly blame girls now for pu
J, ting 1t OFF until they are twenty five. fl
they have no such opportunities as "
had
T What do you mean by opportunities
Mrs. Legan2n i asked
In her smile there was half of sorroy
half of humor as she said
. 1.-THE men today are not like those
o the past
: Miss GRUMPY, JUNIOR
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