Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-14
Marrying Ages 80 The Vicar
With the Pet Pig
He Had Two Wives at Different Times. They Answer
Many Questions


see in your newspaper opinion rather
myself persuaded marriage
suit unhsppy for her and for writing fO" personal
the But should be
glad hear of anything might request especially taot-h'
the feel bound that
am fitted to make happy than much
Younger and less reliable You will of course not publish my name Or
No of course shall not AS the gentleman's ndi-
vdual Endorsement of his charms only quote pop
uar Russian proverb.
Age always praises its badness"
We all apt take fairly cheerful view of
charms possible for courtier to make Queen Ez
believe herself beautiful and enhancing
gin when she poor withered old thing, looking like
driedup pear in December.
consider to be a rule few exceptions that the
very young marrying very much older acts UN
WISELY There may be exceptions there ARE exceptions of
every rule Abraham hundred and forty made
Sarah happy She sixyfve AS regards the marrying
age in general should say this;
The mother responsible first of ALL for the HEALTH of
her child Therefore she should be giving children the world
when HER HEALTH AND STRENGTH the maximum
The vgor of the child depends the of the mother
And success life of the child whether woman
whether the work be intellectual physical depends greatly
upon vigor to carry it through
We believe that the world to-day needs GREAT MANY
CHILDREN The earth is quarter, popu
lated People the earth will be richer freer and happier
when there ten times many of them
We believe the time will come-many long centuries
nOw-when the earth fully populated will require only
children each family Then undoubtedly will marry
late Probably the of marriage for will be thirty
FIVE, or forty, later
will wait until they shall have combina
ton of maximum vigor of body and of the mind
AS to men, they should marry when they are MENTALLY
mature.
1t we'll for a marry later in life than woman
does-ahough should encourage delays marriage
single day after twenty if the young people think they have
found the other half of their household think however
that make better fathers and better husbands
their minds fully developed.
OF course develop mentally as they ever
will develop twentyo FIVE and go down hill after
They ought TO marry young.
that develop may well marry later Thirty five
is old for if he has taken decent himself
We should advise every woman her happiness to
make THAT THE MAN HAS TAKEN CARE OF HIMELF
and that he has got CHEERFULNEsS in addition mind
well formed and able to care for a family.
The reader who writes asks give historical data
That is hard 20 do ofhand.
The great engineer De Lesseps used 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 the reverend geneman-R S Hawker the
of Horewenston This gentleman to 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 was sixty-twO years old this same ovabe
and lHable vicar married girl only twenty
This girl also perfectly happy wife They lived to-
gether, enjoying every minute of their HE died
His first marriage was with than twenty
years OLDER than himself.
And his second marriage with forty
years YOUNGER than himself.
Both marriages happy. you it is hard to tell
Why they were happy Beatrice Fairfax may you we don
know.
is evident however that vicar was something of an
exception He made pet Of intelligent educated pig He
this pig with him on the poor And the pg he
haved splendidly
Undoubtedly who could thus impress pet pig could
get along under matrimonial conditions as some other
might
That IS al we know about marrying different ages and
- is all we can tell the than middle aged gentleman
asks for information.