LADIES' COLUMN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12663, 17 September 1904, Page 6 (Supplement)

LADIES' COLUMN.

A TAFFETA COAT AND CLOTH SKIRT. This coat; and -skirt'sketched ■' is a pretty instance of the taffeta coat and: the cloth skirt. The little coat -has guipure insertion, laid on like a galloon and bordered each side with little puffings of the taffeta, The short sleeves giving opportunity for so much laei-

WHY IT IS GOOD FOR MAN TO MARRY. :

The question whether or riot a young man ought to marry cannot be answered in. the affirmative for all young men, but itmay be alleged, and it is here alleged, that marriage is good for a young man if he is the sort of young man that is fit to many. Marriage should be the ambition of-every young man, and if he is prudent in his selection of. ft wife i and looks well into the future he will not regret putting the garlauded yoke upon his neck. A young man should :aot think of marrying until lie has saved enough and has income enough to start we'd and to support a family decently, according to his state in life. But as soon as his means permit it becomes the duty of every young man to seek a wife. When a man is single he drifts. . His money goes, as a rule, in foolish or harm* ful ways. Having only himself to provide for, he thinks only of himself. He has no home in which he may take pride and comfort. But to the man who is happily married life has a new interest., He has some cares and expenses of which the bachelor is free, but he has :- a substantial happiness and comfort which the bachelor has not, and which makes the cares and expenses seem nothing in comparison. The married man becomes a settled'figure in the community. His increased needs require on his part increased exertions, and bring out the best that is in him. Nature, as well as the young woman, expects every man to marry, and the man who delays this duty until middle age may find his bachelor habits so inveterate that he icannot accommodate himself to the new state of affairs.