Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-11-12
WHEN TO MARRY.
Nearly All Our Self Made Men We'd
d~d on small Incomes.

ded on small Incomes.
aWhv shoSId lovers 0eftr Their mar
riaee day longer than the time when.
as far as we mortals can disc the
future. the prospect Of e-s-lAaft't nie
home is reasonably assured - Y
rus C. Adams in Ainslee'S. 1T is seIlSe-
less 10 wait for the coming of a.ilue ut
days Their lives should be united, and
each in his way should help to bring
about the advent OF easier times if
they are ever 10 come II Is as III
10 wait for a larger income than *
really required as il is for parents 20
slave and drudge that their children
may enjoy degree of aiuence they
have never known.
This is the rock upon which the
French nation has split they are a
frugal and a thrifty people. II IS inter
esting to know that many OF the taste
full, artistic and costly products of
France are made almost exclusively
for the foreign trade. Two thirds Of tht
best chinaware of Limoges, for exam
pie, comes to the United States y wei
to do Frenchwoman is Likely To use
preparation Of rice flour as cosmetic
leaving the delicate perfume and other
toilet articles of Paris for her Aueri
can and British sisters. who are willing
TO spend more money for such things.
But the rich father unfortunately con
ceiyes il to be his duty to leave his
children richer than himself. If, on the
other hand. he be poor ti.ier of the
soil, IL Is disgraceful net to educate his
son 10 a trade or profession so that
the family name may have higher
place in the social scale.
This depiorable ambition fixes upon
the family a burden almost too great 10
be borne. and parents deliberately re-
strict the rumber of their children. In
large districts. particularly in northern
France, families of more than TWO chill
dren are rare. Many Of the young peo-
pie, seeing the hard lives their parents
lead. defer their own marriage III order
to better IL, II fortunes till at last even
the desire 10 marry is eNtinguished.
Parents and children of all lands may
well heed the lesson in sociology that
France is now teaching.
Nearly all our self made men. lead
ers In the professions and in business,
married young and on very moderate
slightest trepidation the responsibility
Of supporting a wife on $1,000 a year
or less. These men usually have very
pronounced views on the inadequate
knowledge of the value of money and
how to take care of it possessed by the
majority of young men and women.
The views Of these young persons as to
the amount of income upon which they
may prudently marry vary, of course,
according to the circumstances in which
they have lived. Many an intelligent
girl who works in New York Kitchens
has no doubt whatever that she and the
steady, industrious fellow she intends
to marry will have comfortable home
on So to sli week.
"A penniless German schoolteacher
who came to Philadelphia when a
Young man and who in his old age
lives in New York on the rentals Of
apartment houses bought with 100000
he earned slowly in manufacturing. as
serted the other day that $1,000 to
$500 year in New York would give
to young married couples of refinement
a comfortable home. books. music and
amusements and everything they might
need for the rational enjoyment of life.
This gentleman has the German ideas
of thrift. There is scarcely any doubt
that any man and wife gifted with his
ability to disburse dollars TO the very
best advantage would be able to realize
a small income