Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-09-30
RIGHT AGE FOR MARRIAGE
Health and Happiness Most Frequent.
1y Attend Early Marriages..

ly Attenu Early carriages,
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
marriageable age?
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 60,
and established them comfortably in
prosperous occupations, they may feel
relieved from the immediate response.
bilities 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 II the little ones arrive in rapid sue.
cession there may, and almost newt.
| ably will. be more or less hardship in
| making both ends meet and In provid-
| ing food and clothes and education for
the fast-growing brood; but If parents
| will only take rational view Of 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 one
thing of all others to give the children
in order to furnish them With working
capitaL they wih-have simplihed life to
a great extent, and can pave the way
to prosperity and n 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
younger a woman marries the less like
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-
en- have their own ideas, and these are
very frequently not specially In accord
with the views Of the average man.
PhysiologicaIly. there Is 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 Mt present; but health Is
usually the last thing to be thought
Of until 1t is gone.
Marriage is the only proper state fol
: rational beings to live in, and If 1t Is
( failure it Is not so from general laws
8 but from the caprices and wrong meth
@ DDS of those who enter into 1t. From
e twenty to twenttytw Is good ag'
l. for young women, and men would dt
8 we'll to marry before they are twenty
o five.
l, II women were as physically able Il
d assume the most important duties
y the marriage relation at twenty-five
e thirty as at twenty there would be al
IS excellent reason for delay; but al
e psychologists are aware that the re
sponsibilites of motherhood are attend
ed with much greater risk after twer
,ty-five years, and after thirty the dar
gers are increased tenfold.
c There is one serious defect in tn
education of the average girl. lnstea
'e Of being taught to put herself in PEI
le feet physical trim from her girlhoo
and being able to meet the contlngei
u cies of life with calmness, conf1denc
~ and the certainty of successful GU
come, she Is left in profound ignoran(
of those things that she has the mo-
need to know. At twenty-five or thlr'
a woman has more intelligence TO gulo
her, but less favorable physical como
tions. As health is the most impor
ant of all things, it would seem wise
so arrange our life that its most taxi
cares come with as little injury TO u
physical system as possible.