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Show Through a Woman's Eyes ba Jean Hetcton THE RIGHT TIME FOR A GIRL TO MARRY tt I 7TIAT do you consider the right VV age for marrying?" one of our readers asks. And with that she sends me a recent editorial giving statistics gathered by a life Insurance company on the probability of marriage at various vari-ous ages. "A girl's chances of marriage fall off sharply after she reaches the age of twenty-five, while the young man's chances Increase for a time after that age," we are told. "The twenty-year-old girl has a better chance of marrying marry-ing within ten years than the young man of the same age. By the time each reaches the age of twenty-five, however, the tables are turned, for the young woman has less chance as years go by and the young man more chance to take the marital vows. "We don't know what the moral of this should be," the editorial continues, contin-ues, "other than the obvious advice for girls to marry when they get a chance, and young men to take their time and be cautious." Wccan subscribe to the latter part of that moral for girls as well as men, for they are no less In need of advice to be "cautious." , But It Is a dangerous and a vicious "moral" that would advise girls that at the right time for them to marry Is as soon as they have the chance! Must we Invoke that old saying, "Marry in haste, repent at leisure"? The right age for a girl to marry is when she meets the right man not oh, not by any means when she has her first chance, unless the two events happen to take place at the same time I Of course, many a Mr. Wrong originally looked like a Mr. Right, and we have even heard of caseswhere a girl married without love and later learned to love the husband with whom she lived happily ever after 1 But to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt in this lottery In which, it has been said, "Every women marries a stranger." a girl should at least be positive at the time that the man upon whom depends the whole future trend of her existence Is the right man, and not merely the first man who has asked her. There have no doubt come times to some single women wom-en when it seemed to them that almost al-most any husband would be better than no husband at all. But If those women only knew It. they were living lives of joy and delight compared to women who felt themselves crucified by marriage to the wrong man. To know for certain that a mans true name Is RIght-For-You Is something some-thing that no mortal can tell you. Hearts have been known to go wrong, and heads, too. But If a girl wants at least to give herself the "breaks the right time to marry is when the man who to her is Mr. Right asks her. (. 1930. Bell Syndicate) |