Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-01
the wrong man, at least there was
something right about him.

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lie was the right age for her.
Now David Lewis is no the RICH,
age for me. He just isn't. No use
pretending any more that it's quite
sensible and nice to marry'a man who
was tw~enty-seven when one was born
Is 1t right that a. girl of eighteen
should be going to marry a man who
says Tut. tue" to his grey hairs ir
the glass, and who has to make little
Jokes about his rheumatism and abou,
how he couldn't walk over the noun.
tains now as he did when he was q
lad?
OF course it's nice of him to laugh
instead Pf Erumbling about elderliness
and that. But ought he to have to dc
hetther. a man who's going to marry 8
quite young girl? "%.
I'm beginning to be quite sure tina,
the. most important thing in a, fiance
is that he should be the right age.
Now how old is that, roughly?
1t vas just when 1 was wondering
this. that l heard Grannie say some
thing that settled 1t for me.
] She was reminding David Lewis of
my christening.
d you remember" reminisced
Grannie, "how you brought your dear
mother. poor Nesta, to old Llande-
dwvedd church, before it was restored
or anything; and how she was to stand
godmother; and how she suddenly
turned nervous when she had to stand
holding the baby for the dear old
Rector! Always very shy before peo-
pie, your mother! And then. David,
how she turned to you and whispered
all fluttery, oh, 1 can't hold her. I
! can't do it, and you said, Give her
to me, Nam. I'll hold her?' A u
man like you. We all thought it won
derful of you. There you stood by the
font, holding our little girl here in
| your arms"
Dear me. so I did," said David
Lewis, smiling across the tea-table at
me. Think of that, Julia!"
! just in time, I .choked back the
words that rose to. my lips: HOW
AWFUL" -. =.
And I realized that this was a very
reasonable sort Of aGe-limit to set
namely that no girl should be expect.
ed to marry a man who either had.
or could have held her at tine font
when h was a baby being chistened.
Some people think that seven years
older than his wife is the perfect age
Tor a husband; some think ten. That
fits in with my theory. No mother
would really like to trust a. long
clothes baby to the arms Of a. bow OF
seven, or of ten. Even al twelve the
creature might carelessly drop her on
the coco-matting.
A lad $.of. fifteen, now, could he
trusted toa:hold the white woolly bun
die which cuts him out from
marrying ~, twenty years later. I've
come t. 1.-THE conclusion that there
MOTTO be any quite young girls
engaged to fiances Of thirty five,
even
don't. know why I've never seen
all this before?
Or have l seen it? =
6aVr l been shutting. my eyes to i
from h start; and: then, have things
pied themselves up one upon another
until at last I've felt ! must throw
down the burden, and that l can't
POSSIBLY 90 on being so unhappy any
more?
1t all came in a minute: the minute
that l first heard David Lewis telling
Grannie that 50 far as he could see
there was nothing to stop the little girl
and himself from getting married in
June.
In q, few. weeks ], .
1t was my heart that seemed to
stop. ! heard Grannie'and my fiance
going o n chatting pleasantly about
arrangements" The Office was now
closed down and there&was no: reason
70 retire to the dear little old Bank
House In village; where certain.
alterations had already been put In
hand. David meant to 20 down TO
Wales for a fortnight or 80, shortly,
On his return. said David, we could
get married in London. quite quietly.
There was q friend Of his. a South