Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-04
Z WHAT AGE SHOULD A MAN
MARRY7
- BY DOROTHY DIX -
The Worries Highest Paid Woman
Writer


BY DOROTHY DIX -
The WsrId's- Highest Paid Woman
Writer
n YOUNG woman writes me letter
"a In which she asks me at what age
Ia man Ia likely to make the best
husband.
i This f. question that IL impossible
70 answer by the calendar. 1t depends
upon the individual man. Some men
are easiest domesticated II caught
while young and tender. Others can
never be tanned until age and rheuma,
tism make them feel that they would
like TO eat out of good, kind, moth
erly wife's hand. And there are other
men who can never be thoroughly
householder at any age.
Generally speaking. however, pru'
dent woman who desires to be happy,
though married, will avoid the two
extremes OF age in selecting her hus'
band, and WIN say no" 20 both young
Romeo and tottering Grandpa when
they come a-wootng. i
OF course there % no denying that
there Is something peculiarly appeal;
ing and ailuring In 4 boys lovemaking.
He Il SO impassioned, 50 deadly IL
earnest, SO convinced that love 10 the
only thing In the worlc, ami that no
human being in the whole history
Of humanity ever experienced the
same emotions that are surg1ng
through his soal, that II Is no wonder
ii foolish girl - swept off Of her
feet BY it, and lets him persuade her TO
make the fatal journey to the altar
with him.
Alas, Il IL the undoing Of both OF
them. Cold statistics show that most
of the marriages that end In divorces
began IN calf love romance and were
entered into by boys and girls whai
were too young TO know their own
minds Of what they really desire In
life mariner. Common observation
bears out the danger Of early mar
fiages. especially the marriages OF
boys.
II isa sinister and significant fact
that in almost every scandal in which
3 married man and q woman ngure
you win find out that the man mar
ried when he was mere lad. Also
when you see faded, washed out
NEGLECTED woman sitting alone at.
home while her goodlooking and fasci
mating husband roams around IN soci
ETY.. and Is pitied BY all who know him
for being lied to dowdy wife whom
he has outgroHn. you win ascertain,
n Won investieafe, that he picked her
ont when he was an uniformed boy ana
Is spending his maturity repenting
his salad days tastes.
There are no such unfaithful hus
hands Is those who qualified In the
husband class too young.
The truth 10 that nothing equals the
Ease with which q boy can fall II love,
except the facility with which he can
AN ont Of love. Youthful passion In
4 masculine breast is fierce flame that
burns itself out 80 cOIDpletely X
doesn't even leave cinder on the
hearts hearth to remember the girl
The hind d Girl boy adores In
the early fwentities bores him IN the
late thirtiee. This - the case whether
lie Is married 20 her or not That Is
why I woman Is nothing short Of an
'nbocile to trust her fate to q man
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te has seen enough Of women TO know
what ne Is doing when he selects one
Tor keeps, and especially before he
has tasted enough Of romance to have
had his iii Of Il, and 70 be willing to
settle down to daily diet Of the do
nestle brew.
Another reason why girl 10 taking
) long shot e happiness Il she marries
4 very young man Il because boy is
almost invariably selfish. undisciplin-
"a ana esotistical. He lacks the
patience to bear with another's faults
and weaknesses; the wisdom to steer
TIE matrimonial ship into Z safe port.
and when he finds ont that marriage
doesn't mean billing and cooling, but
1I|I and bad cooking, and heavy re-
.nonsibiIities. Why, he's mighty apt
- turn surly and grouchy and blame
hie wife f0s The hardships he has
brought down On his own head.
He's just too young and weak to
bear the load be has shouldered, for
natrimony Is . grown mans Job, not