PLUNGING INTO MATRIMONY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 26, 31 January 1924, Page 9

PLUNGING INTO MATRIMONY

.Punch's advice to those about to marry was—Don't., A leading Sydney doctor s advice, on the contrary, £o those about to embark on the matrimonial sea is to, plunge right in. His argument is that not only does the average life of a married person seem longer, but that it is. in fact, longer than that of a celiu " j. married man, according to the medico, has everything in his favour for a long and useful life, 'provided hia wife is a congenial companion. Set in an atmosphere of social and domestic bliss, a married man, he tells us, has really no occasion to feel envious of his bachelor friends, "who are slowly but surely wrecking their health in rounds of dissipation and late-hour revels." A<*ain it makes a big difference in the life of a man if he has a wife to care for him. • , f o£ angel when he is sick. 1 Shortly, a married man is saved from the unequal fights with Nature in which bachelors are constantly engaged Agam,_we-are assured, while married life brings many domestic troubles in 'its train this is more than compensated for by the long periods in which, smooth and regular habits are possible ' ■