Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-12-13


almost inevitably will, be more or
less hardship in making both ends
OF the year meet, and in providing
food and clothes and education for
the fsstgrowing brood; bat il par.
euts will ca,r take rational view
OF the situation, and understand
that simple food is not expensive,
that plain clothes are quite rs good
AS fine ones. and that education
and knowledge is the one thing Of
all Others To give the children in
order to furnish them with working
capital. they will have simplified
life % gfsss exken1ssnd can pare
the way 70 prosperity and peace
ful and plentiful old age.
People who marry when quite
Young are likely to live together
more harmoniously than those who
enter into this relation after their
ideas. minds and methods are fully
settled. IL has often been remark
ed that people get along better un-
der such circumstances. but il one
will take the trouble to investigate
the subject q little it will be seen
that they get along better because
the woman has too little character
and wii!-power to do anything but
submit to her husbands dictation.
The Younger woman marries the
less likely she is to set up her will
IN the household. For this reason
many men prefer very young wives;
indeed, they sometimes say that
they would choose q very young
girl and bring her up. SO to speak,
to their liking. Mature women
have their own ideas, and these are
very frequently not specially in ac-
cord with the views of the average
man.
Physiologically there is good
deal to be saId in favor of early
marriages, provided the family does
not increase too rapidly. II women
would observe oil the laws of health,
they could marry later in life with
much greater safety than at present;
but health is usually the last thing
to be thought of until it is gone
perhaps forever.
Marriage is the only proper state
for rational beings to live in; and
il it is q failure, it is not so from
general laws, but from the caprices
and wrong methods of those who
enter into it.
From twenty to twenty-five is &
good age for young women. and
men would do well to marry before
they are twenty-five. IL young
people are properly educated, and
not allowed to fritter away their
time in senseless follies and idle
ness. by the time they have reached
the age Of twenty to twenty-five
they will have acquired the rudi-
ments OF an excellent mental and
physical training, and will be so
familiar with the ground principles
II much that 10 desirable for them
TO know that interested reading
and that investigation that all we'll
balanced minds crave will keep
them abreast with the times.
An abundance of good literature
is as important in the household as
good food, il one would have the
best physical and mental develop
ment. II women were a. physi-
cally able to assume the most i'm
portant duties Of the marriage re-
lstion at twenty-five or thirty as at
twenty, there would be an excellent
reason for delay; but all physiolog-
lists are aware that the responsible
tiles of motherhood are attended
with much greater risk after twenty
FIVE years, and after thirty the
dangers are increased ten-fold.
There is one serious defect in the
education of the average girl: She
begins her training for the most
important duties Of her existence at
the wrong time. She only learns
how to avoid suffering after she has
borne pain. Instead of being
taught to put herself in perfect
physical trim from her girihood,
and being able to meet the contin-
grncies of life with calmness, con-
fidence and the certainty Of sue
cessfni outcome, she 10 left to pro-
found ignorance of those things
that she has the most Deed to know.
At twenty-five or thirty q woman
has more intelligence TO puide her.