The evening world., 1912-03-20
WE'D EARLY SAYS
one DOCTOR NO,
SAYS ANOTHER
Dr.. Boos's Advice to Marry
Young All Wrong, Asserts
Dr.. Eugenia Hancock.
GIRL AT IS, MAN AT 80.
Women of Mature Age Said
to Be Mothers of Worlds
Greatest Men.
GIRL AT IS, MAN AT 80.
Marguerite MO0evs Marshall.

- Wei as a superior quality OF chill /
dfen. Is the contention OF DR.. william
,. Boos OF the Massachusetts General
Hospital. DR.. Boos is setting himself
hatly against the modern tendency In |
this matter, but that does not disturb
him In the least. 1T IL, but hadn't
ought to be-" seems the t~renchant ifI
ungrammatical summing up Of his atti-
But here are HE own words:
Our IDEAS on the subject Of the mar
rlage~bie age and the reQuir ements for
the union are Az wrong The average
seif.made American father Is only too
ap< to tell his son TO put all ideas Of
marriage out of his head until he is en-
tirely abie by his own efforts to sup
port . wife and children. Instead OF
that. he should do all in his power to
discourage the boy to larry young. II
he thinks the boy has chosen wisely. ne
should offer to help him establish a
home and defray the expenses.
"Under the conditions Of to-day few
young men can make IL possible en-
tirely by their " efforts to found a
home before they are thirty rear old. |
But the marriages that usually end In
divorce are contracted by persons more
than thirty years Of age. On the other
hand. the marriages Of persons under
twenty-five are apt to be the beet from
every standpoint"
Or. HANCOCK FAV0Re A MORE
ADVANCED AGE.
However. doctors may disagree. and
Dr. Eugenla Hancock Of No. 16 East
Thirty fourth street certainly doesn't
agree with DR.. 300
"A girl ought not 70 marry ~
fore she 10 twsaty.avs." DS. EaA-
cock told me yesterday. "And since
Der husband should b four or I'VE
pears her senior. the marftaGeaeis
age for the nj 10 brought mp -
about thirty. The best Nms In Q
wom,,'s lie for bearing children
70 the decade bstwssa twenty-five
md tt:-ty.avs.
There Is just one lesitimste argument
In favor 90 the early marriage cont.n-
ued the doctor, and there is another
nsw for that. 1t IL claimed that
young men who postpone their marriage
often plunge into dissipation. particu-
larry in a large city. Their health 10 in
jured. and when they do eventually
marry their children are likely to be
lebS StTONS. but tHdt OUJeCtlOn 10 Oe-
\ fsrring the marriage may be easily met
by a course in personal hygiene. begin
ming In boyhood.
ION the other hand. there are %
many reasons against marrying young
that I hardly know where to begin. |
Perhaps I'd better take the physicians
standpoint frst. and speak Of the dis
astrous physical effects OF the early
marriage.
QUESTION OF COMPLETE MEN.
tai DEVELOPMENT.
mo young woman has any right TO
become a mother, no young man to
become a father. until each has at
tanned absolutely complete physical and
mental development. And In the great
majority Of cases this maturity Is no,
complete In either man or woman be-
fore the age OF twenty-five.
AS Q physician. I have seen innumer- !
able cases Of young-old women OF
thirty who are broken down invalids
because they married too young. In a
recent series Of magazine articles II
was shown hat our respected Colonial
fathers married. literally. early and
often. They had TO do one II they did
the other, for the girl-w!fe OF seven
teen was generally dead before her
thirtieth year. And the big percentage
Of deaths among the small children IN
the Colonial families seems to show
that the offspring Of immature moth
srs are lacking in strength and consti- !
~tut!onal resistance to disease.
"The mothers OF most OF the worlds
greatest men were OF a mature age at
the time OF the birth OF their dlst!n-
guished children, II has often been
noted tina the genius In the family, II
lie or she exists. Is one Of the younger
chl,dren-is not the Immediate fruit OF
"A possibly early marriage.
NOs course" Dr.. Hancock added, II
don't mean hat marriage should be de-
fsrred til late maturity, but l do thlIk
children hould he born IN the vigor-
nus prime OF their parents youth. not
In It's early stages"
FATHER SHOULD be PREPARED
TO CARE FOR OFFSPRING.
"And then there Is the economic side
OF the question" I suggested.
exactly" said DIR. Hancock. land
that is mixed up with the health aues-
ton. Still considering the marriage
from the point OF view OF the children,
they ought to be born and brought up
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