Republican farmer., 1920-01-02
URGES GIRLS TO
 MARRY AT EIGHTEEN

For physical, romantic and social reasons, girls should marry when IS years old, because then they have better children, are happier-they and their husbands growing together with the years. For the sake of their nerves and general health, women, after marriage, should con- tinue to work and should never mar ry a man who thinks it reproach for his wife to work.
 pr. Ada Potter, of Utrecht, HoI- land, one of the distinguished wom- en physicians here, suggests all these things for the betterment of womankind, and this betterment is the object of the gathering of women physicians from the world over. Early marriages are being encour- aged in Holland because it is rapid 1y becoming the general belief that these unions are more likely to be love matches rather than marriages for economic or social reasons, ac- cording to ~Dr. Potter, who summed up her entire talk with the advice to start right, love right, work right
 The woman who marries for a solely economic reason is making a big mistake, in Dr. Potter's opinion
 
 positions to take care of. She is the homemaker, she is the manager and ! she is the general worker in the 1 household. Almost any woman l could make a far easier living ir l some other manner than marriage. "A woman needs to be three times \ as strong and well to be married as | in any other occupation Dr. Potter | said. 'In efficient, happy marriage she is working at three jobs. She ii l the wife, the loving comrade of hel husband and she is the understand | ing mother of her children; she i. | the homemaker, the manager and i the worker in her household, ant | surely these three jobs are enough 1 to make her realize that, outside O
 wedlock, she could make a far easie | living.
 ry, physically, economically and TO
 mantically, is 1S," continued tn l physician, with self-confident em | phasis. Romance is the flower O i youth and if woman waits unti | she is 28 or 30 years old before mar rying, her marriage is probably | matter of economies, rather thai l love. When a girl and man marr. young they have better children am 1 a better chance of happiness, fo
 they grow together with the years
 ''In my country our divorces ar
 very few and I think it Is becaus
 after marriage, our women work i After love, I consider this the funda
 mental reason for happy marriage.
 If our woman do nothing else the
 manage their own households an
 their children I believe we averag | larger families i'll Holland than yo
 do here, although doctors in goo . standing are permitted, in my coun
 try, to limit families if they conside the health of the woman demand | it.
 ''The healthy woman who marie , for love chooses the ideal life, fc it is the most completely rounde
 and satisfying career she can selec & Her love makes it possible to satist
 all the intricate requirements, bl s she must continue to work to , happy. When she weds to obtai . an easy means of support she
 making a big mistake because in a , ] most. any other line of work sf i could make an easier living.
 Why, in Holland, many of ol :. woman continue after marriage tT f business or professional work
 which they had previously engage
 We have very few idle married won I ''-ENrOrY1 the