Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16
THIS week SlEITER|f0R SEV-
ENIfEN-YEAR- OLD GIRLS.
Nox Warns Them Against Too Early
Marriage.
IMPRISONED BY CARES WHEN
THEY SHOULD BE FREE.
Nature Raises a Cry Of Warning
Too.

Nature Raises a Cry Of Warning
Too.
| Copyright, 1880, by Charlz Nox Press
| Bureau)
New York. April 15.-Among our
readers not few are discovering that
our aim is to deal with the problems of
everyday life. This Sunday Morning
Talk is intended for girls who, unpre-
| pared in Aaore ways than one. are
thinking of marriage while they are yet
too young.
| A friend of mine. a part Of whose
work is to tie the nuptial knot, tells me
| that he is sometimes obliged to refuse
to perform the ceremony on account of
the youth Of the partiesaapplying. en-
Decd said he, mot long ago a girl of
seventeen years of age came to be mar
ried, and having lied to me in answer
to one of my questions, went away in
dignant with me because I refused to
pperform the ceremony. More than
once he added, Il have declined to be-
come third party in the unwise de-
sire of persons too young to enter into
a contract of which they know so lit
| tle.''
| What did that seventeen-year-o girl
who could tell a lie on the eve of so
important ceremony as marriage
know about love? What do thousands
! of these young girls with emotions
aroused by novel reading, and who can
not detect the smile of honor from the
smile of the knave, know about the pas
sion of real love-girls who are no
more prepared to enter upon the voy-
age Of matrimony than a cabin boy is
fitted to take command of a ship?
Preparatins for marriage includes
many things. Among them are good
health, suitable age, practical knowl-
edge of household matters, desire to
rear children, and most important of
all, the presence of that greatest of all
powers in the universe, the power of
love.
NOT MOONSHINE SENTIMENT.
| The deepest current in human be-
ing is love. The grandest passion of a
human soul is love. The most exalted
theme of poem or Of prose is love- The
! Hottest inspiration of a painters touch
is love. Love is the deepest response
of one soul to the deepest longing of an
other SOUL
But much that is called love is not
such. Many men and women have
never felt the sway Of this, hottest
! touch upon their hearts, for love is
not the passing emotion of an hour IN
which face of beauty leads one on,
nor an unholy desire that would storm
to ruin the fortress of another's bright
est hopes, but an emotion that takes
hold of soul and lifts it, as if or the
bosom of a mighty current, and pears it
on and on to joy; that passion which
knows no wealth, no creed, no station,
but which, like a swollen stream of
the human heart, bears everything
along with it.
Love is life's nc5lest theme. Other
things also give happiness in life, but
as a highway to sublimest joy none
| equals this. Love never touched a life
/ but to bless It, Whenever the love in
one soul finds a response in the love o.
r,,+ ,,. <--,,,1 ~, ea- t-r,r, hives orc rob or
truer, nobler on account CT the expert
ence. But how true it is that too many
| times marriages are made in ignorance
! Of what such love is, and unhappiLess
| is sure to follow. Thousands OF young
| girls could be spared from years Of de-
spair if. instead Of being influenced by
something as less strong than love as
the ripples on the surface of the water
| are less strong than the mighty cur
rents beneath It they would wait besore
taking this step. Eut, instead, they un-
wisely go to an altar not of love but
! of sacrifice, an altar on which are sac
! rdfced some of the grandest hopec Of
life. Ignorant of the importance of the
!! step, unwilling to take advice from
those who hold their true intere-es
dearer than life, many lass has found
IN married life only blasted hopes.
The advice OF a good father and
mother should always be listened to IL
~ maabH ~ every young girl, and It
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