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Show -t" : The Marrying Mood. It is sqfe to' say that if there were no love to urge men and women into marriage there would be very few weddings and mankind would finally become as extinct as; the dodo. If marriages should be made after: mature deliberation and careful reasoning one might expect those con-, tracted by persons of advanced age to be the hap piest. And. yet that is not the common experience. experi-ence. The common experience is that the happiest marriages are those which take place early in life and that when an elderly man or woman gets marriedwe mar-riedwe are pot speaking of widows and widowers widow-ers they more frequently make a mess of it. The reason for this is not hard to find. It is absolutely absolute-ly essential to the happiness of wedded life that there should be common concessions. Two minds cannot always think alike; two people cannot always al-ways desire the same thing. One of them must, therefore, give way. Young people can learn to do this .more readily than older one?. As to the wisdom of getting married and marrying young, there should not be two opinions. Home life is the most wholesome and the .very best estate, and every woman should be a homemakef. There are many things, a.s society is. now organized, which militate against marriages except among the rich and the very poor. - Among the- very poorest classes of the population poverty is not considered consid-ered a bar to marriage. But there is a great class in every community which is ambitious to "keep up appearances," and which thinks it cannot afford af-ford to marry. The young woman has been used to living with a certain amount of luxury -and there is a disinclination to fall lower in the social scale by living in a cheaper neighborhood and with fewer of 'tho comforts and conveniences of life., Each one wishes to begin where the parents left off. Plain living and high thinking are no longer the aspirations pf the many, Baltimore Sun. |