Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
! The Age
5 for Marriage

ektNtA%NANsN%%NNAAAA% OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
E~7OOD morning" said the noorwaker
~ "Have you thought over what I said
las; s1sa@ nisnt'r .s. said .r.r,, az hay. de.
cided that it is impossible" And with
an air of inality she turned back to the showcase
"Oh," he said, in tone of deep dsappoint-
ment. "But why is it?"
"Well, in the first place, we're not nearly old
enough to get married yet"
"Not old enoughl" he cried in surprise. "Why
what is the proper age for marriage? And how
old are"
But she interrupted him hurriedly. "Oh, |
don't mean that there is any special age, of
course such thing must, of course, vary with
different cases."
"Well, what do you think would be the right
age for us?"
"That would depend entirely on how much
money you are making now" she replied.
"You just said it had to do with age, and now
you say it has to do with money. What do you
mean, anyhow"
"They are one and the same thing" she de-
clared "a man nowadays cannot marry until
he is making certain salary, and he has to be
well on his twenties, even, perhaps, in his thir-
ties before he is making it.
'Isut don't you think that's pretty old? Don't
YOU think he'd be so used to being bachelor by
that time that he wouldn't feel like tying himself
down to prosy matrimony and to giving UP his
club and all his good times with the boys"
DIFFERENCE OF THE TIMES.
eyes, that's just the trouble" she conceded
at takes him so long to get enough money to-
Cether so that he can afford to get married that
by the time he has it he is out of the humor
aiDss t, he q
"But why is it?' the foorwalker asked. Now,
nv father was twentyone when he married my
mother and she was nineteen. | don't suppose
vounp fellows worked themselves UP any faster
then than they do now. OF course, it may take
them longer; I don't know"
"No. it doesn't" she replied "In fact, it's not
the mans fault that he can't afford to marry
sooner; it's the girls"
GLOW do you account for that?"
'"That's easy. They're lots more expensive than
they used to be. You see, our mothers married
So entirely for love that they overlooked entirely
the sordid. material side of things, but we don't
seem to be able to do that We can't live in the
clouds like they did, And she sighed deeply.
The hoorwalker raised his eyebrows. Don't
girls ever marry for love any more?'
ooh. YES of course they do but they're
so much in love that they cannot count dollars
and cents You see, it takes much more than
love and cheese to make girl happy nowadays
To make her happy, you must provide her with
n three-story house, a couple of servants, plenty
of becoming clothes, trip to the theatre once or
twice week, and many other things as you
can get your friends to lend you the money for,
with little love thrown in on the side"
The foorwalker gasped. "They don't want
much, do they?'
"Well. now, look here, you can't blame them,
A. fo, 1,,,o~
wants to better herself when she marries; that's
only natural AS the years go on she is able to
nrovide herself with more and more comforts and
injuries. so that in order to better herself she
must marry a man who is making very fine sal
arv indeed At the present stage of the game
she has comfortable room somewhere all the
nret+v things to wear that she wants, and, besides
that. she has her freedom, and none of the cares
of house You can't blame her for picking out
a man who can give her not only house, but
servants too, can you now?
The foorwalker sighed deeply, and shook his
head ''No, don't suppose 1 can"
THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CASE.
GAS to the girl who doesn't have to earn her
own living, she is even less willing to marry on
small salary. She has been brought up in an ele
pant home has always had servants to wait upon
her has always nau u IdJHer W looI dll uSi
for her unquestioningly, and has never wanted for
ANYTHING that she didn't get it. Such girl
couldn't marry on small salary even if she
wanted to. She wouldn't know the value of
money, in the first place, and in the second she
" would have absolutely no idea of how to run
house. let alone of doing housework. As for
l., economy, she probably never heard of the word,
e and if her husband should be the first to use it
= in her presence she would dissolve into helpless
tears and declare that it spelled cruelty"
, 81 guess our parents must have been brought
up in different way from that in which girls are
brought up today remarked the Aoorwalker
. ooh, undoubtedly" she agreed. You see, in
those days very few girls earned their living,
because it wasn't considered good form for girl
TO work Besides that, housekeeping consd-
!. cred necessary part of the education of every
Girl. and they were all willing to pinch and slave
= and to work along side by side with man until
a he got up in the world. Nowadays they are de-
. termined to lose none of the pleasures of life,