The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13

Stlule luem Ut the uOOr,
Extend both hands to greet them,
Their worst will soon be DER.
Beat down their stormy bugleS
With your rejoicing drums,
And, mailed in lofty courage,
Accept whatever comes.
Margaret E. Sangster.
$3.50
At What Age
Should Young People Marry?
At what age should girls and young
men marry? This depends upon condi-
tons When a girl has acquired her
education from schools ('from schools"
because our education goes on through
life, when she is fully grown, and
physically developed, if she is in good
health, and has learned the rudimelts
OF housekeeping, let her marry when the
right man sues for her. The time and
age varies SO with girls that there can
be no set data.
With young men: if they are in a
perfect physical condition and can sup
port Il wife, it is better to marry early,
than to walt until they grow to regard
women with Indifference, and lose that
chivalry which we invariably see in early
courtships; comparative riches can hard
iy replace what is lost after this time.
There should be a study of tastes and
disposition. 1t has been said that mar
riages formed through college assocla-
lions proved the happiest; this means a
congeniality of intellectual tastes as well
as of disposition, should be considered.
If a woman is mentally mans SUI.
periOr so she cannot III the order OF
things look up to him, there will be a
continual regret that he fails to appre-
cate the heights she loves to climb;
while with the husband far in advance
the same difficulty often pushes him Tor
sympathy to minds outside the home. A
great part of unhappy marriages result
from servitude of the wife in money
matters There are many women who
long to step out and earn money, but are
held back by this bond; the husband re-
bells vet refuses her an allowance. When
a girl enters matrimony she should in
sist upon an early understanding in this
regard
Just why a woman's time and work
should not be given a share in the earn
ings we fail to see; sometimes she has
the harder part If she had remained
unmarried, she may have had less care,
more pleasure and a purse OF her own;
it is said
Women are having clubs and every
freedom same as men now"
Yes, women have societies and clubs,
but not the same as men; the latter are
free to spend their money as they please,
a woman is often forced secretly to earn
the money to pay her dues to avoid the
humiliation of begging for it: for it is
humiliation of the keeneSt to a sensitive
nature to ask for a small sum to pay an
honest debt and feel it comes unwillingly
when perhaps she is saving daily for that
same purse.
Many girls are not strong, or may
have an unhappy home, and longing for
love and sympathy, they seek marriage
as a refuge; for awhile they imagine
they have found happiness, but soon
added cares burden, a weak constitution
fails, Irritation suggests ineorlpatfbility
and freedom is longed for-perhaps
sought in the courts. Marriage rightly
entered into is the happiest life for
both sexes, but no one should marry
that has an inherited disease; any
tuberculosis, or deformed person, and
those not mentally bright should be de-
barred. Even in a generation the re-
suit would be wonderful in the survival
of the fttest; there would be less use for
sanitariums and asylums, even our peni-
tentiaries would be less full, for weak
ness brings poverty, crime follows, while
the mentally and physically well, will
work their way upward.
10 avoid unhappiIess and divorce let
a courtship be long enough to know each
other before the closer relation of en-
gagged lovers, but have the engagement
not over q year.
conclude that Jewish people contract
more cOngenlai marriages than others,
neither are their cOurtshipS so under the
rose" as our own; one seldom hears of a
broken engagement, or a divorce among
them; and what healthy happy people
they are. Could we not take a lesson
from this? Jewesses are not raised to
be bachelor girls; from childhood they
expect to become wives and mothers.
Children come to arms that welcome
them, hence the greater health and hap
piness is accounted for.
When the average American girl mar
ries. she has an inward hope to escape
the penalties of motherhood: if the I'm
welcome stranger appears, love flows
into the mothers heart with it's coming.
but the child has the seeds of suffering,
and unhappiness as a result of a wom-
ans prenatal desires, and unwillingness
to cheerfully welcome her condition.
An earnest effort should be made for
a reform as to marriage. Some states
have righteous law prohibiting the
marriage of cousins, others should be
made that would prevent the greater
part of suffering and crime, which any
candid thinking person can see is the re-
sons of mental or physical conditions
Sarah ID. Gardner in Cooking Club
Magazine
A New Business for Women.
A. new profession for women is that of
chaperon for women staying at New
York hotels. According to the New
York Tribune, girl who went to New
York from Chicago spent a month in
the city in the charge of a chaperon, her
parents having made the arrangement,