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Show MARRIAGE IN WAR TIME Life is far from easy and simple for the young people peo-ple in these times. After 10 years of worrying whether the world would shut its doors of opportunity to them, they now find many new doors opening. But one of those doors is the dark, forbidding, and sinister entrance en-trance to war. Many of the young men have to go in that door. The girls who are left behind have many pangs. In Europe the effect on many was to induce them to get married right away quick. Many of them felt they wanted some taste of the fun and happiness of marriage, and they would better make sure of that for a few clays or weeks, and let the future take care of itself, and some of these hasty unions probably came to grief. A hasty marriage is usually a doubtful one. There are many people who seem very bright and nice on first acquaintance, as you see them at the parties and in loving scenes of courtship, but some harsh claws can be concealed under soft kitteny fur. The girl whose suitor, is called for military service should ask herself how it will be. in case they are married, mar-ried, if a baby is born to them. Will she be able to continue con-tinue working, or can the husband support them from his pay as a soldier, or will government aid be sufficient? suffic-ient? There may be days of poverty ahead, with inadequate inade-quate care of the wife and the little one, if these resources resour-ces are not sufficent. Wars do not last many years. The clouds will roll away. The young people would better wait a few years than make a match if they feel any doubt about it. If their love has proved itself deep and lasting, the world will give them its heartiest good wishes, if they say the fateful vows. |