Show I 1 1 M 1 MIM M I M 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 II M l l l H H H 1 1 IM il ll the right ht age for marrying 0 1 by jein JEAN NEWTON I 1 lilt tl I 1 I 1 1111 l all li HAT do you consider the right age for marrying one of our renders 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 ages A girls chances of marriage fall off on sharply after she reaches the age of twenty five while the young mans mails chances increase for a time after that age we are told th the twenty year old girl rl lias has a better chance of marrying within ten years than the young man of the same age cy by tile the time each reaches the age of twenty five however the tables are turned tor for the young woman has less chance as years go by and the young man more chance to take tire the marital vows we dont know what the moral of this should be the editorial contin ties lies other than the obvious advice for girls to marry when they get a oli chance ance and young men mea to take their time and be cautious we can subscribe to the latter part of that moral for girls as well as men for or they are dd no less in need deed of advice to be cautious cut 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 I 1 must we invoke that old saying marry la 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 1 of course many a mr air wrong originally looked like a mr right and we have even heard of cases where a girl married without love and later learned to love tile the husband with whom slie she lived liv od happily ever but to give ourselves the benefit ot of the doubt in this lottery in which it has been said every women marries a stranger a girl should at least be hosli positive lle at the time that the man upon whom depends the whole future trend of her existence is the right roan man and not merely the first man who has asked her there have no do doubt come times to some single women when it seemed to them that almost 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 cruel crucified fied by marriage to the wrong man to know for certain that a mans mails true name is right for you Is something 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 mho to her Is mr right asks her 0 1331 1930 bell syndicate |