DON'T HURRY TO GET MARRIED
Girls don't be in a hurry to get married. If you are but 16, don't allow such an idea to get into your head for at least four years. Don't even run the risk of it by permitting any young man to get so far as proposing the point. Fight them off, and make them wait or go to somebody who is ready. Don't live under the impression that you must accept the first lovesick youth who proposes. Be patient, deliberate, and sagacious. There is a world of happiness for you between 16 and 20. The world would be a dreary old world if it were not for the sweet faces of young girls with their piquant sayings and melting smiles. After you have reached 20 it would be well to consider the matrimonial problem with some seriousness. Then if you have learned to think and deliberate you will probably make a suitable selection, and marriage with a Trorthy man is not onty a woman's privilege, but unless married too young, her best and highest developement, mental and physical, can be attained in this state. Men and women were made for each other, and a very old but nevertheless true truism is that a happy marriage is the very Garden of Eden. An unhappy marriage is the reverse and the greatest of all calamities that can befall a pure, affectionate, and noble woman.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 335, 9 May 1885, Page 4
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238DON'T HURRY TO GET MARRIED Observer, Volume 7, Issue 335, 9 May 1885, Page 4
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