EARLY MARRIAGES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1912, Page 10

EARLY MARRIAGES

1 Alzah Yamaji, one of the most popular writers in Japan, has this to say about early marriages :— "Young men and* women should marry as early as possible ; they ought not to pay any at- { tention to the argument, in fashion of late, that they shoidd remain single until they are prepared to lead a comfortable life after marriage. It is far better that they marry before they lose their youth, and be, armed with the boothing power, of their mutual love to work out a career in the world. " Some people may crilcise this statement as thoughtless counsel for too early marriages, but even this sort of marriage is better than one without' love, 1 such as is 'likely to be that of a man who has wasted years in prepara* tion . and calculation with a woman long past her youth. We often meet a young couple, who w«re forced to s suffer many i privations when they were first ( married, who gradually and steadily worked their way to a success far greater than that achieved by the bachelor who Kad scoffed at their early marriage. " She is not . a very uoble-hearted woman who seeks only an easy and luxurious life after marriage. A true woman will probably prefer* to many •a man whom she loveß, uud to comfort and encourage him in his work, ever reudy to share with him either the biiterm?*>s of defeat or the laurels of victory."