Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-06-07
EARLY MARRIAGES IN ENGLAND.
Fewer Than They Were Because Yoang Men Have Grown More Prudent"

{ Fewer Than They Were Because Young Men Have Grown More ''Prudsnt."
 The registrar general has reported
 upon the statistics of marriage dur
 ing the past year, and already the
 fools of philosophy ara rejoicing.
 for it is seen that the age of mar
 Iiage continues to rise; that the
 time of life whereat despair becomes
 the proper emotion of the unwedded
 grows annually more mature. Bat
 above all, we are told. young fpen
 marry later now than of old. because
 they are vastly more prudent thRn
 their fathers were. They will rot
 marry a lump of undeveloped possi-
 bilities, but wait until few years
 have made 1t possible to discern at
 least some faint foreshadowing of
 the woman that is to be.
 Also they are amazingly consider.
 ate. They will not take girl out of c home rendered comfortable at least by her fathers 30 years of toil to manage a little semidetached villa upon a very limited income Many a life lthey have heard sayl has been altogether ruined because two young people accustomed to comfort and a reasonable extravaganza have found themselves confined in a small house. with a small income and the need of rigid economy And so our wise youths, as the statistics demonstrate, will work until they have made a DO sition of some sort and can offer to their wives at least an imitation of the comforts they had in their ia thers' houses. Doubtless they arc vastly prudent, and yet-he was q wiser man who said, England will be happy when her people marry | young"
 1t is a hard saying perhaps and | likely to be pushed aside as opposed at once to the growing practice of our race and to the teaching of phi losophy. Yet is it worth interpret ing. for though imprudent marriages are a most fruitful source of evil. the married state Is yet in many ways the best both for the individual and for the state
 The worst of the wild oats plan is that though the sower and his chil- dren must reap, the unhappy nation follows after and gleans There would be less of that if Englishmen married young. and as to prudence, which makes the practice increasingly the other way, weshould not hear so much spoken of it if We were but granted a little more common sense. For com mon sense would go to the root of the matter and do away with the need for ! long course of prudence by enforc ng recognition of the essential truth. And the truth is this, that work-the abor which brings houses and cattle md pays multitude of servants-is lone other than the primal curse. md that the only method whereby nan may become wealthy is by di his desires and needs.
 Most young men could marry with Ina1 delay if they were content to ave all the necessities and most of he comforts of life; the modern 'oung man postpones marriage be ause his soul is set on luxuries. 'hese at best are capable of afford. ag no extraordinary pleasure, and ven that which might be extracted rom them he never enjoys. for he as not realized that leisure is in it. elf form of wealth. He is the ond slave of his foolish ambitions nd labors perpetually after that 'hich he allows himself no time to at-National Observer.