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Show VIEWS OF MARRIAGE. It Consummates Life No Single Life Is the Perfect One. We hear young men say, "I am too poor to get married," and girls, "The man I marry must be rich. " These remarks re-marks appear harmless, and they may have a certain business shrewdness behind be-hind them. Still the larger truth is that the speakers most often do not take an honest view of marriage, no matter how honorable may be their purposes. Money cannot insure happiness, and long experimenting ex-perimenting in the countries of Europe has shown that mating for wealth is the sure road to a lax and immoral domestic domes-tic economy. It would seem that the sensible view to take of marriage is that it consummates life for the poor and the rich, the vulgar and the refined; that no single life is the perfect life. The future of mankind depends almost wholly upon happy marriages and healthy offspring. And this suggests that there should bo no marrying of unsound un-sound people. Greater selfishness cannot be imagined than that which brings children into the world doomed to a life of immitigable misery, the hereditament of those who bear their parents' burden of disease. Shall we say that questions arise in this connection too delicate for discussion with young persons? Is it better to leave the discussion to be raised after it i3 too late? The sensible view of marriage is the view that comprehends every consequence. conse-quence. To the young people looking forward to a long and happy wed led life it is of vital importance that no e-ment e-ment of the subject shall be a mystery; that nothing connected with the matrimonial matri-monial venture shall be left to the I lizard liz-ard of chance. Parents mustunders . jd that their children are to be parei.es; that there is no escape from the responsibility, responsi-bility, and that education is incomplete and training inadequate which does not qualify for paternity and maternity. The young man and the young woman who are fitted for marriage are fitted for all that a healthy, courageous and happy life demands or imposes. Chau-tauquan. |