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Show Dorothy Dix Talks THE RIGHT AGE TO MARRY B By DOROTHY DIX, the World's Highest Paid Woman Writer j I youth wants in know at what ago I , man slmuM niarr PS I That dipfnils on circumstances Tlv 3, I . fk df.s no. .-Hike the Minii cobbm fcO I ;',ur' . V I neakins, th- richt :; for a man to Kerry is when he is old enough to , I his 0lVn m,ni uhon ho has met Kie rignt girl, and whm he is makinc RmOuHi in. 'ii. rr. .support a family In I' fori. ami this psychological mo f uia occur almost rinvvvheer be fSreen th1"' rradk and thr CTave. f personally I believe thai a humane II ,nd paternal -ovornni.-nt should pass Q f w rn.,kiri impossible for a man to i ( b, , : . i , i 25 yeara old. Be tore that lur.r- a man is no more fit EL to undertake the responsibilities of EttTimonv, and to take his own and a Iroraan s 1 i " m'" nis hands than a Rgby is to pilot the Leviathan across fae "Ailanti"'. I nf for."- b'" is a man's tastes arc ILjsettlod and crude; his judgment is : inioniH .1. .mi. I h: nol i he Blightest Hftaof what lie is urung to be himself r or the or; ''' v'of,ian he v.ani- foi lit h i wif'"' f I K bo-vs wlir "iml "'' niselvefi f" ifr to v.. mii' i old nough to .1.? th. ii '1 f mother Ii ' "d- l'ids who . , ; , 1 ill.' l!. 11 HK). - Moils I-'si l.o'n i'i. nf-'i al mid Esht frolic- and marrv wiih.u' c, y 0Vin. - --n ' ith their paint off H is OQ wb,-n a man is a-inin.- and twenty thai i r ,0 ,,ick? out v.r. by It i onmplexiun ; ' Had for the little curl on the nape ! j, -, the interim furnishings ol liei 7 E If-mp. ' n.: ..Hi'.,.. f .J j t jow it :? a mi lam-holy fact hat our k V ! ., much I HTit dee- in food and clothes No real- I j groivn up nuui r. li-.li.'s ih( strawber-l'y strawber-l'y if. .-.am so.la thai ravished his UtU( j . could ho ho hired ! . J necktie of hi 'tty Beophoinori' d r 't ( I. he - mature 00L l . nlan js ijf,r. I ' i . i 1 1 '. i he ver) type of a ll wr,m: ;' ' ,ir was n's 'deal ' feminine j I! , ,rni in l.i boyhood. No man ever iRnipts his first ethearl ifter the ;po-. oi .mi v .ihoui thanking God j Htor his mercy that ho escaped man C I ,- .. I.d. ii he did in.. n ;. h( r I! o .. !,,. I.. I . i 1 a O... II .11.; Keaven protrcts tools and the long 1 Kot wins out after all Ano sorne- line ill. :- divorce. And sometimes i ion: s of dull endurance of hop latitat l' - ".I r- Ellittjl Anoili'-r r. .. -on whv Mi.- average lOifl ni.m should not man; under 2' is tha: -1 j ic handicaps his chances of success in ;sittiil 1 I110'' v'i'k-d he that has' friu iix Th'-y can't. It lake- ten times as much I Hpyg Therefore th- I ; v !... n .irr o - . n foM r..o . r hope ! :- hi- Boffn 'alar-v' or to lay up ibe little .o-st ,-cv. IlKdfl 1ha' wi" onabl'' him to take ad' antace JJJljJ tl the opportunities that conr ro v . . rwft He -.:..-;! r b tween th """7 r :ind nether millstones of dcune.- JvJ tiC need- Mela.: h I ' ll - e i I I n 1 or a ' I f . jJJ i time ol -'a-.'Ty i" landlords, and cn. Jr;rJ cers, and showmakers, and doctors He pJJI f trows oM and v..n. and discoum;:., 2j I because h. r a load to.. VjC?vy lo I his noiiii; -liould. l - to b-a' 2 B An early marriage shuts the doors to ', ruccess in bov' l. can t go to j ' ?l P'arr's w,f'r' fortune calls because he M cannot .hap; a wile and babi- wi ll E lm People who woulJ; and could. i)M!i relp him ii h- v., single, lake no in- ' pCOfb 1 terest in him if ho is hamper. ' v.i'h a 111' Eainily . I.m body lioo.-;s a l-o.mI look IMKM I ing, attractive, single chap, and no-aWKM no-aWKM i'ody noii'. -. a worn and m-i.Iv ounq Nlilij rusband who has walked the coiie ball rfOMi the ni'h' and v. ! .-e clothes money ha : t TU:i ?one to huy bab food It niey b a heartless and cynical point of view, buy it is the public point S of view, and one that is .vorth the con-s con-s fideration of every young man If he tm Ranis to hand up, to miLbt not have' i weddinc rin ..i it But Jusi a-, the very young nan has, t fmall chances of happiness in matri-j 'lony, so has the old man The man I i Who waits until ho Is fitt lo marrv had I test postpone iho matter r'together to: I offer that aKo a man has u quired hab-i'.s hab-i'.s that are dearer to him than any I woman can possibly be. II is ways have become the laws of I the Medes and the Persians which ?an I Hot be changed His selfishness is in I trained to the core, and he cannot I idapt himself to the personality of an- other, or make the ine Stable sacrifices sacri-fices demanded by conjugal li'e To sum it all up, a man should not marry until his mind, his character and his taste are lormed, and unti. hf has gotten on his own ieet and can make enough money to feel that his family is a luxury and not an affliction afflic-tion that he has wished on himself Nor hould he wait until ae has become an ossified old bachelor who has done everything, ev-erything, and seen everything, and been everywhere, and is rh umatic, and blase and who only wants a wife who will be a combination sick nurse and cook and valet, A man should marry .'n his prime, when he is old enough lo know the value of the gift a woman gives him when she gives herself and when he is Btrong enough lo protect, and while he is young to still thrill with romance, -till keen enough about the joys of living liv-ing to be cheerful and happy compan ion to his wife, and fluid enough to be able to run himself into the domestic mold without wrecking It. And this ago genera 1 1 r omes when a man is between 25 and 33. oo |