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


your opinion
facts the desirable for ony am past middle age and
myself myself
writing from personal
concerned But should be
clad TO hear Of anything might say request especially se's-h'
possible rather than While have bordnatsa
mentioned feel bound that at
younger and .ss sbi. You viii Of course not publish my
initials in connection With this
No of course we shall not As the gentleman indi-
vdual Endorsement of his charms only pop
ular Russian proverb
Age always praises its own badness"
We all apt take fairly cheerful view of
charms 1t possible Queen Eiz
abeh herself be beautiful and enhancing
gin when she poor whered old thing, looking like
dried-up pear in December.
We consider to be rule with few exceptions that the
very young marrying very much older acts UN
WISELY There may be exceptions there ARE exceptions of
course every Abraham hundred and forty made
Sarah happy She sixty five As regards the marrying
age in general, should say this
The mother responsible first of all for the HEALTH of
child Therefore she should be giving children to the world
when HER HEALTH AND STRENGTH at the maximum.
The vgo of the child depends the vgor of the mother
And the success life of the child whether woman
whether the work be intellectual physical depends greatly
upon vigor carry it through.
We believe that the world to-day needs GREAT MANY
CHILDREN The earth not quarter or Onetenh pOpu
lated People the earth will be richer freer and happier
when there ten times many of them.
believe the time will comemany long centuries from
now-when the earth fully populated will require only two
children family Then undoubtedly will marry
Probably the of marriage for will be thirty
FIVE or forty, later.
Women will wait until they shall have reached the ombina
tion of maximum vigOr of body and of the mind
As to men, they should marry when they MENTALLY
mature.
1t is well for a man marry later in life than a woman
does-athough should encourage delays marriage
single day after twenty the young people think they have
other half of their household We do think however
make better fathers and better husbands when
their minds fully developed.
Of course develop mentally much they
viii develop twentyOur FIVE and down hill after that
They ought to marry young,
that develop later may well marry later Thirty
not old for he has taken decent of himself
should advise every woman for her happiness to
make sure THAT THE MAN HAS TAKEN CARE OF HIMELF.
and he has got CHEERFULNEss in addition mind
wen formed and able to care for family.
The reader who writes give historical data
That hard to do ofhand.
The great engineer De Lesssps used to go riding through the
park past seventy with tiny children
behind him Shetland ponies They looked cheerful and
did he.
Then there the reverend genleman-R S Hawker the
vicar of Horewenston This gentleman to expert
ment at the two extremes
When he was in HIS TEENS he married woman ortyone
years old They happy clans and they stayed happy
until she died
Then when he sxtytwo years old this lovsble
and Ezable vicar married girl only twenty
This girl also a perfectly happy wife They lived TO-
geher enjoying every minute of their time until HE
His first marriage with than twenty
years OLDER than himself.
And his second marriage with than forty
years YOUNGER than himself.
Both marriages were happy So YOU is hard tell
Why they happy Beatrice Fairfax may you don
know
II is evident however thai this something Of an
exception He made pet intelligent educated pig He
calls nd pip be
hsved splendidy
Undoubtedly VINO could thus impress pet pig could
get along matrimonial other conditions as some other
might
That IS all we know about marrying different ages and
that iz al tell he than middle aged gentleman
al for information