The Nome daily nugget., 1908-09-18
WHAT is THE BEST ACE TO
 MARRY?

What iz thr best age C. marry THr mearsJ ayutc Rouid make haste fa answer tat tbg Br-t as. To marry. paadexiaaIIe speaking. k no agr al all. but since aat esrH madefu evH- nizm cau make marriage generally uu- popular we may b, forgiven fur dis cusziug tnc qus~tiau 9s To whether ft We're wiser ta m#rrt while We af. sauug and "grecu." or wait HutH sr are old and experienced. mol to say ''seasoncd
 A bud" af Sweet seventeen may bc both stand and sensible. while the fun- blown rose of forty mIy be both friv- uIaus and nignty. and the first is like ly ta be as ifr,pruaehable as wife as she was quiet and demurc as a maiden. Whil, the second. mo doubt Will be frsky and irresponsible to thr last. Eut il is mol always safe c. as sumr this Sometimes apparently scri- "us-miuded and geoay goody girls have been known to develop aa alarm ing amount of frisktness after mar riagr. while coquettes have been known to settle down as the best of wives ta the most bumdrum uf hus- bands
 Statistics seem to prove that the average age of brides and brldpgrooms varies in different years. and that when the country is rejoicing in the full Hide of prosperity not only do more marriages take place. but that both men and women marry al an earlier age than when times are hard. Some years ago the average age at which the men married was 27.7 years. and the women at 255 wears and these ages are. il must be admitted. We'll balanced and reasonable.
 People Nho marry while very young are all To find out when il is too late that tnes have made the greatest mis- take m their lives. and that, though it may seem very sweet and idynic to marry "the first and only love" tof the hobbledehoy stage of their existence) tnis same first love" Is the very last person in The world that they ought To have married or that they would have chosen, if their cyes had not been blinded hy the dust of dclusion. the traRsitor> flash of passion or the ilIusive glamour uf false and liceting sentiment.
 For the tune being every one who Is what is called "n love" is actually non compus mentis, and though this is practically true with regard to men and women Of every age it Is. of course. much more SO in the case of the very young g-that k to say. iuve- nile sufferers as a rule seem to take the malady in a more acute form though it may be that the greater se- yerity 1f attack fs more apparent thar real. seeing that the victims have mol the arr 10 hIde their sufferings as aldel men and women brace themselves uI ta da. Calf love" may be very anus ing to the on-l0oker but il is very req t0 the poor youth who suffers from the infatuation. Let him take hcarr of grace. however. and determine t6 get through this troublous time Ritf brave spirit. feeling assured thai later on. as man of the world, he will laugh al this carly ideals and at If, first experience of the bliss and tor. ment of loves young dream
 "For boys win is the wInd's will. And the thoughts of youth are long
 long thoughts"
 The ideal of a youth of eighteen ol twenty. and of a girl of sixteen or sev- enteen. are rarely the same when tht idealists are len years older; in fact as rule they are totally opposite 1T every important particular. Some. in- deed. may advise couples to marry and