The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-10

Why should lovers defer their mar
riage day longer than the time wheh'
as far as we nIortals can discern the
future, the prospect of a comfortaDie
home is reasonably assured2 asks Cy-
rus C. Adams in Ainslee's. 1t is sense
less to wait for the coming OF alhuent
days. Their lives should be united
and each in his way should help 10
bring about the advent of easier times
if they are ever to come. 1t is as fool-
ish,t to wait for larger income than is
really required as 1t is for parents 10
slave and drudge Jhat their children
may enjoy a degree of atl1uence they
have never known. This Is the rock
upon which the French nation has
split. They are frugal and thrifty
people. 1t is interesting to know that
many of the tasteful artistic and cost
ly products of France are made almost
exclusively for the foreign trade. Two
thirds of the best chinaware of Limo
gee, for example comes to the United
States. A well-to-do Frenchwoman Is
likely to use preparation of rice flour
as a cosmetic leaving the delicate per-
fumes and other toilet articles of Paris
for her American and British sisters
who are willing to spend more money
for such things. But the rich father,
unfortunately conceives 1t to be his
duty to leave his children richer than
himself; II on the other hand, he be
poor tiller of the soil, 1t is disgraceful
not to educate mis- son to trade or
profession so that the family name
may have a higher place in the social
scale. This deplorable ambition fixes
upon the family a burden almost too
great to be borne, and parents deliber-
ately restrict the number Of their chill
dren. In large districts, particularly in
Northern France, families of more
than two children are rare. Many of
the young people. seeing the hard lives
their parents lead, defer their own
marriages in order to better their for
tunes, till at last even the desire to
marry IS extinguished. 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
incomes. Many assumed, without the
slightest trepidation, the responsibility
of supporting a wife ON $1,000 a yeai
or less. These men usually have very
pronounced views on the inadequate
knowledge of the value of money ant
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 whicl
, they may prudently marry vary, o.
course, according to the circumstance
in which they have lived. Many al
: intelligent girl who works in New
D York kitchens has no doubt whateve
: that she and the steady, industrious
j fellow sne intends to marry will hav,
I comfortable home OH $l2 to $14
{ week. A penniless German schoo
l. teacher who came to Philadelphia
. when a young man and who in his oil
/ age lives in New York on the rental
. of apartment houses bought with $500
600 he earned slowly in manufacturing
: asserted the other day that 81 1000 t
e 81, 800 year in New York would Civ
to young married couples of refnemen
!, a comfortable home, books, music an
II amusements and everything the
. might need for the rational enjoymen
of life. This gentleman has the Gel
man ideas of thrift. There is scarcel
any dolbt that any man and wife, gif
, ed with an ability to disburse dollar
u to the very best advantage, would b
. able to realize his idea of comfortabl
II married life on a small income.