Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-14

middle and
persuaded that such marriage
unhappiy her and writing from personal IN
should be
ss to hear Of anything you might say request especially
my feel that
younger and less course publish my
initials in connection with this"
No of course we shall not As to the gentemans
vdual Endorsement of his charms only quote
ular Russian proverb.
Age always praises its own badness
We all apt to take fairly cheerful view of
charms 1t possible Queen Elz
abeth believe herself be most beautiful and enhancing vr
gin when she poor withered old thing looking like
driedup pear in December.
We consider to be a rule few exceptions the
very young marrying very much older UN-
WISELY There may be exceptions there ARE exceptions of
course every Abraham hundred forty
Sarah happy She sixyhve As regards the marrying
age in general should say this:
responsible first of ALL for the HEALTH of
child Therefore she should be giving children the world
when HER HEALTH AND STRENGTH at the maximum
vgor the child depends upon the vgor the mother
And the in life of the child whether man
whether intellectual physical depends greatly
upon vigOr to carry it through
We believe that the world to day needs A GREAT MANY
CHILDREN The earth not onequarter, Oneenth popu
lated People the earth will be richer feer and happier
when there ten times many of them
We believe the time will cOme-many long centuries from
now-when EARTH fully populated will require only two
children family Then undoubtedly will marry
Probably the age of marriage for will be thirty
FIVE or forty, later.
will until they shall have reached combina
ton of maximum vigor of body and of the mind.
As to men, they should marry when they are MENTALLY
is well for a marry later in life than a woman
doeathough should encourage delays marriage
single day after twenty the young people think they have
found the other half of their household We do think however
husbands VIII
their minds fully developed
OF course develop mentally as they ever
will develop twenty Ave- and go down hill that
They ought to marry young
that develop may we'll marry later Thrtyfve
is not for man. if care of himself
We should advise every for her happiness to
make sure THAT THE MAN HAS TAKEN CARE OF HINdELF
and that he has got CHEERFULNEss in addition mind
well formed and able to for family.
The reader who writes asks us to give some historical data
That is hard to do, ofhand
great engineer De Lesseps go riding through the
park Paris when he past seventy with tiny children
behind him Shetland ponies They looked cheerful and so
did he
Then there reverend gentleman-R Hawker the
Horwenston This reverend gentleman tried expert
at the two extremes
When HIS TEENS, he married woman forty one
years old They happy CLANS and they stayed happy
until she died.
Then when he sixtytwO years old this same ovable
and hEabe married girl only twenty.
ms gHl also Was perfectly nappy VIE Ihey lived to-
gether enjoying every minute of their time died
His first marriage with a than twenty
years OLDER than himself.
And his second marriage with more than forty
years YOUNGER than himself
Both marriages happy you see is hard to tell
Why they happy Beatrice Fairfax may you we don
evident however this vicar was something of an
exception He made pet Of intelligent educated pig He
tins pig with him ms calls poor And the po be
haved splendidy
Undoubtedly who could thus impress pet pig could
get along under matrimonial and other some other
men might not.
That is all we know about marrying different ages and
that all we can tell The more than middle aged gentleman
who asks for information.