Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
DOES MARRIAGE AFFECT A WON.
ANS CAREER,

copyright. 1915, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
''Of all the griefs that harass the dis
tressed
Surely the most bitter is a scornrul
jest.
Fate never wounds more deeply the
generous heart
Than when q blockhead's insult points
the dart"
The girl who has the career bee" In
her bonnet should think long and ear
nestly as to whether she ought to mar
ry a certain dear fellow who is very
much in love with her, or fling sentf-
ment and all thoughts of marriage to
the winds and follow. alone, the bent
of her ambitions.
There are those who disapprove of
pretty young actresses tying them
selves down in wedlock to a husband
whom they must live the greater part
of their lives away from If they fol-
low their profession, AT % they are
at the zenith of their youthful beauty.
They are far happier single. With the
whole world signing at their feet-that
is the opinion of the great public.
! A decade of years, aye and another,
fit by before the pretty %favorite of
the footlights wakens to the truth
her youth and beauty lave fitted from
her like a song that has been sung.
Those who declared the loudest and
most eagerly that she should remain
single are the first to thrus her into
the background. smiling upon a young
er. fairer beauty, whose comeliness is
all her OWL and not the result Of
clever make up to hide the or
time.
1t is then that the actress g~rieves
with all her heart over, her folly of
listening to the advice of those who
had no interest in her future to re-
main Sjnp1a and n1alre. a brilliant ca
reer for herself. A son or young daugh-
ter, upon whose strong arm she could
lean, would have been worth more to
her than he whole wide world.
The business girl faces the same prob
lem. Should she marry or cling ten
aciously to the paying position which
h has gained by years of duty and
unceasing toll? Friends tell her she Is
earning more with which she can pur-
chase comforts, nay, luXuries, than any
man she might marry could, or would.
buy for her. She has seen those young
women about her whose prospects for
advancement and the accumulation of
money We're equal to her own, wed and
struggle hard against poverty to keep
the wolf of hunger from their doors
when sickness and misfortune assailed
them. Children whom 1t was hard to
provide for were continually being add
ed to the family circle. The single
woman looked on pityingly.
In after years the wife who had
struggled in poverty had all cares lift
ed from her shoulders and her heart
by her strong, willing sons and daugh-
tiers. 1t was her turn then to pity the
single woman who had bartered happi-
ness for a business career, losing in old
age because of her infirmities, and be-
ing forced to pay strangers literally for
every hands turn they did for her, lit
tie by little, the full amount Of her
savings She knew too late marriage
would have been best.
n great singer, the artist, teacher,
stenographer. she who is engaged in
any money making career, should re-
alize that her years for making and
saving money are all too few. What
then? A lonely disappointed life If
she must carry her burden the rest of
the way alone.
Taken all in all, marriage is the best
career d woman can Engage In for hap
plness at a time she needs 1t most. One
cannot engage in business pursuits and
attend to rearing a family at home at
one and the same time, but home life
is best. The love which shelters a wom-
an therein is worth all the wealth the
world holds or the worldwide plaudits
of a tickle public.