Why Every Woman Should Marry.

Otago Witness, Issue 2870, 17 March 1909, Page 75

Why Every Woman Should Marry.

" A woman 'has no. right to a -areer, unless for bread and butter purposes, until she has had children," says Mrs Amelia R. Ban, who began writing aftei she had married and. .reared 15 children, and who, at the a,«e of 80, has just published her fifty-ninth, successful novel. In. the course of an interview, the novelist observed :— " The .home girl is the only one that is- wortih, white, and the girl who doesn't marry if she gets the right chance is a fool. Only that way lies happiness. "It doesn't matter whether she is a gifted woman or not. I don't care how great a genius she is, ft is only through the ordeal of motherhood that she can make herself fit to sinef or paint or write as God int&nd&d she, should when- He endowed her with her talent. She must have experienced the heights and depths of life in order to make Eer a.rt — whatever it is — a vUal, original force ; and marriage is the only gate to that experience. And without it, if she writes, she is doing no more admirable a thing than po-iring the contents of one inkstand' into another. " Therefore, I say Lo the girl who da-cams of a career, ' Many ; learn your lesson before you try to teach it.' And let no girl set herself up as too precious a jewel of genius fco marry what it may please her to consider %, "commonplace man. A man whose every waking moment is given to his ambition, who had no time for the dear interests of home and for genial hobbies and diversions, is not, the one -who wall bring contentment to his wife or give normal children to his country."