Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-06-02
AS TO EARLY MARRIAGE.
whether II Is Help or HIndrance
Depends Very Largely on
circumstances,

II depends upon a number of things.
To make one rule fit all cases would be
impossible. Indeed the numerous and
excellent answers to this question re-
ceiyed by Success, differing 50 widely
in their import, have, like the verdict
Of the travellers concerning the chanel
con, "all been right and all been
wrong"
There are occasionally men TO whom
home restraints and home require
ments would be exceedingly irksome,
even detrimental They are, by every
implication of their being" free lances
free to roam from land TO land, from
city to city, from house to house, or to
bury themselves in laboratories, or lit
erary dens, or other places where they
can be let absolutely alone. Their wan
behring's, and the things pertaining to
them, or their experiments and burrow-
ings, are all they care for Love would
be to them only a secondary considera-
ton, the care of a family a nuisance.
For men of this type to marry, early
or late, would be a hindrance, because
their natural inclinations and habits
would cause friction and unhappiness;
things which are utterly demoralizing
to success.
Their are, on the other hand, many
young men, and perhaps more women,
whose hearts are, by isolation, want of
sympathy loneliness, and lack of COM
Portable living, so dissatisfied that
brains and hands refuse to do their
potential best; and, in their restless
ness, these people spend money need
lcssly on many things which have in
them possible temporary satisfaction,
or which render thought impossible for
time. People Of this type, if rightly
mated, find in marriage their highest
happiness and most efficient help.
To a majority of people a feeling OF
being settled is necessary to success
Very few men can have this feeling
without home. The student or clerk
| has his room or his den; the military
officer has his quarters; the sea captain
his cabin; the herdsman, his ranch; as
ISOLATED men have their clubs, societies
and lodges; but, without a woman, {
home is practically unknown.
Few single men save their earnings
During their bachelor days, they art
liable to form expensive and careless
habits, and to keep bad company, al
of which means not only a scattering
of dollars, but a dulling of the brair
power and hand power by which dol
lars are earned. Such men need a neu
Trailing influence, a counterlnagnet
which will draw and keep them ava,
from demoralizing haunts. This mag
net is usually found in wife and home
81 should never have saved dollar hat
not had a wife's trust, encouragement
and counsel and the hope of a home be
fore my eyes," said a young man Il
the writer.
A young man who takes a wife befor
he is able to support her puts himsel
in a very doubtful position as regard
great success in life; for, unless he i
extremely fortunate, his family dc
mands will increase faster than his abb
ity to meet them. Most self-made ric
men say the first thousand was tn
hardest of all their wealth 70 accumr
late, so that a young man on an ord
nary salary, with family on his hand
and no surplus earnings, will find
very difficult to get this first thousan
ahead.
Again, when one husband and wifi
find stimulus and happiness in builC
ing up success inch by inch, anothc
couple would be constantly chafed an
irritated by poverty and its deprive
tions, and so wreck life in an endeavC
to procure the wherewithal to live.
is worse still wher only one of a ma
ried pair feels this Impotence Of cond
tions and the irritation from curtai
ment of expense.
We must, then, conclude the
whether early marriage binders {
helps success depends upon three thing
the mental and material needs of II
individual, his ability to provide sati
factory home conditions and his choic
of mate. These conditions being pro-
erly met, early marriage is undoubte,
~, in large majority of cases, not
hindrance, but an immense help to su
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