Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16

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1uenced BY love then be wise in tine
and save your life from sorrow.
TASTES WILL CHANGE AND JUDO
MENT GROW.
A girl at sixteen or seventeen years
of age is not likely to know her mind
in this matter. The person to whom
she would be married at this age is one
whom, perhaps, she would not think
OF marrying few years later. she does
not knew enough of life to enable her
to wisely choose partner at whose
side she must walk until either death
or sorrow separates them. 1t needs q
maturer judgment than hers to know
how to choose wisely where such inter-
ests are at stake. She is at an age
when, as yet, she has not been called
upon to decide any of the important
questions OF life, and why should she
try now to decide this most important
of all questions. A wrong decision here
will bring effects which can never be
undone A wrong decision now will
blast the brightest hopes. Many girl
has lived to almost forget the person in
whose keeping she once felt she could
trust the dearest hopes of her life. Cir
cumstances prevented the marriage, the
wisdom of years showed how unwise
such union would have been, and now
the happy and devoted wife OF a hus-
band between whom and herself there
is the bond of deepest love. she LOOKS
back and shudders at the thought of
how much less happy she might have
been had she followed what to her i'm
mature judgment of years ago seemed
to be wise desire.
1t is surprising to see how greatly a
persons taste in these matters will
change between the ages of seventeen
and twenty-five The girl of twenty-five
will bring to bear maturer judgment
and more critical taste, and will con-
slider marriage in the light of such
issues of life as will hardly occur to the
girl of seventeen.
FREE LIKE OTHER GIRLS.
Surely young girl is not ready to
settle down in life. She thinks she
is, but once she finds herself with the
responsibility of home cares, the ne
cessity, perhaps, of thinking carefully
before spending a dime in order to
make it go as far as possible; the denial,
if her husbands income be small, of
many of the pleasures of life, and pos
sibly the care of child, all of which
she finds herself in duty bound to I'M
deItake, while other girls of her age
are free to enjoy the few years of life
in which the natural buoyancy OF spir-
it makes one desire the freedom of a
life with almost no responsibility
rather than the life in which cares
and burdens beyond ones years must
be borne
Moreover, another grave question
presents itself. 1t is not only that
ones taste is likely to change greatly
between the years of sixteen and twen-
ty-five, and that the responsibilities
and cares of married life may cause
vain regrets, but the question Of moth
erhood comes In too, that responsible
ty arising with the launching of new
life upon the sea of destiny. No false
modesty should prevent the open dis
cussion CT question like this. Life
has no problem which should be stud
led more intelligently.
OF course there are exceptions to ev-
cry rule. One may point out a woman
who was married when young and
whose children have been as healthy
as children born of people who were
married later in life. But let us sup
pose that florist sets out many thous-
ands of plants at the same time Of
year during several years and that he
| finds the results which he obtains are
very much more satisfactory than the
| results which follow in other years
| when similar number of the same
! kind of plants are set out in another
month You would call him a most
unwise florist who would still persist
| in setting out this kind of plant at a
| time when nature is against him.
| FLYING IN THE FACE f FACTS.
| Now what is the fact with regard to
| the offspring Of people who marry too
young? Nature is against these people
| Their future happiness is already mort
| gagged. The chance for their children to
| grow up in good health, or, indeed,
| to grow up at ALL are against them.
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