The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-11-10
RIGHT AGE FOR MARRIAGE.
Health and Happiness Most Frequent
~ Attend Early Marriages.

~ Attend Early Marriages.
Taking it for granted, which all SEN
sible. right-minded and good-hearted
people do, that marriage is the very
best condition for all men and women,
the question arises. What is the best
manageable ageE
There Is very much to be said in favor
of both late and early marriages. Those
who start out In life early may have
the satisfaction of gathering a large
family of grandchildren about them,
and spending the latter portion of their
lives In comparative freedom from care
and anxiety. Having brought their
children up in the way they should go,
and established them comfortably. in
prosperous occupations, they may feel
relieved from the immediate RESPONSE
billties of everyday life, and feel that
all the children will have an interest In
their happiness and welfare. OF course
where youngsters begin life together,
they usually do so with small means,
and IL the little ones arrive In rapid.suc-
cesslon there may, and almost newt
ADlI WILL Dt HbIt VI NoH hahoDhhP -
making both ends meet aud In progid-
ing food and clothes and educationSfor
the fast-growing brood; but II parents
will only take a rational view or the
situation. and understand that simple
food is not expensive. that plain clothes
are quite as good as fine ones, and that
education and knowledge Is the n
thing Of all others to give the children
in order to furnish them with working
capital, they will have simpliied life to
a great extent, and "A pave the way
to prosperity and a peaceful and plen-
tiful old age.
People who marry when quite young
are likely to live together more har-
moniously than those who enter into
this relation after their ideas. minds
and methods are fully settled. The
Jung n woman marries the less Ike
ly she is to set up her will In the house
hold. For this reason many men pre-
fer young wives; indeed, they some
times say that they would choose a
very young girl and bring her up. so
to speak, TO their liking. Mature wom-i
en- have their own Ideas, aud these are
very frequently not specially In accord
with the views of the average man.
Physiologlcally, there is a good deal
to be said in favor of early marriages.
provided the family does not Increase
too rapidly. If women would OBJ
serve all 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 1t is gone.
Marriage is the only proper state for
rational beings to live in. and II II is a
failure 1t Is not so from general laws,
but from the caprices and wrong meth
DDS OF those who enter into It. From
twenty to twenty-five Is a good age
for young women, and men would do
well to marry before they are twenty
five.
IL women were as physically able to
assume the most important duties OF
the marriage relation at twenty-five or
thirty as at twenty there would be an
excellent reason for delay; but all
pnJSlOiORlStS HTe HWdIt Auht hHt IL
sponslbilities of motherhood are attend
ed with much greater risk after TWEEN
ty-five years, and after thirty the dan
gers are Increased tenfold.
There is one serious defect in the
education of the average girl. Instead
OF being taught to put herself in per-
feet physical trim from her glrlhood
and being able to meet the contingent
cies of life with calmness, confidence,
and the certainty of a successful out
come, she Is left in profound ignorance
of those things that she has the most
need to know. AT twenty-five or thirty
a woman has more intelligence to guide
her, but less favorable physical condi-
lions. AS health is the most import
ant Of all things, 1t would seem wise to
so arrange our life that its most taxing
cares come with as little injury to the
physical system as possible.