"MARRY EARLY."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1933, Page 7

"MARRY EARLY."

ADVICE TO YOUNG GIRLS. LONDON", December 28. "Girls should marry early," says Sir James Grichton-Browne, the mental and nerve specialist, adding that young women of up to 25 did not die of tuberculosis like the unmarried ones. Referring to recent medical reports stressing the increase in deaths from tuberculosis, Sir James, who is now 82 years of age, and who married his first wife when he was 25, attributed the fact that hundreds of young women wageearners are suffering from the complaint, owing to the existing competitive era, representing a drastic change from he Victorian homekeeping. Typists, clerks, shop assistants and factory workers especially, he said, were suffering owing to their working at high pressure, often in badly-ventilated premises. They had to turn out in all sorts of weather after a hurry-scurry breakfast, and often contracte dcolds, which they neglected; while their meals generally were dietetically incorrect. Moreover, examinations, night classes, homework, cinemas, theatres and dancing prevented them getting the necessary rest. .