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Show IS 10 Eli I By GIIiMAX PARKER ;l International News Service StafJ M Correspondent , ., M CHICAGO, April 24. Eighteen jl should be the maximum age at wlilch IH girls "should marry, and fourteen ils M none too young, it is firmly bcllgKOjd ' ! by Mrs. Laura D. Lawson, of Chicago, SI who was a grandmother whonr-.she 31 I was thirty years old. She was mar- mm xlcd when thirteen years old and had 91 a daughter a year later. The daughter Mm married at fifteen and presented her MM mother with a granddaughter when mm she was sixteen years of age. mM Now Mrs. Lawson is forty-sevon, M jan athlete, and the possessor of. a M complexion that a sub-deb would , WM envy. H i "I suppose they'd try to stone, .nio tH i out of the United States If I advocated ' .H tho marriage of girls at fourteen,"' j H she said. "So all I will say is th,at I H !mlne, a year earlier than that, turie,d pj out splendidly. nn, J ! "I believe that girls should niarrjr I very young, eighteen at the very latest. One big trouble with mocierh young women Is that their mothers j are too old for them they simply i cannot get the right point of view 'on I their daughter's daily problems. ' i "I always was moro of a compan- I ion to my daughters than a mother I ' a mother of the modern type at I least. T took a whole-hearted Inter- M est In everything they did from their :M . viewpoint, and took part In thcir'-af- ' H s fail's just as a girl friend would. 5 I "It is my great hopo to live to he H , 'one hundred years young,' and I be!- l H lieve I will. It is easy for a womati ' H to remain young all her life. All she 'M has to do is: 'Follow the Golden Rujb H and keep her face clean-' I've done IH that, and had only two facial mas- Mm : sages in my life. And I never worry liM ' over trifles, which is an aging habjt IjH and o great fault of women today." 2 lfl Miss Hazel Doherty, Mrs Lawsonjs jfl granddaughter, who Is now seventeen. j U ( does not .wholly share her youthful VfM grandma's opinions. She says rbfc fl doesn't intend to get married "for j long, long time." J pill |