Why the “Only Daughter” Is, After All, the Best Girl to Marry.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XIV, 2 April 1904, Page 62

Why the “Only Daughter” Is, After All, the Best Girl to Marry.

( By a Man who Married One.)

Young man. if you ever come across an only’ daughter, the only’ child of her parents, who is looking around for a husband, snap her up at once. Don’t let the chance go. Propose immmediately. and hasten on the wedding. This is advice based on experience. The mother of an only daughter can take pains with her training. She can teach her thoroughly’ all the different things which, had she possessed a number of daughters, would have been divided among the lot. Consequently’, if you wed such a girl, she conies to you with all the knowledge which has often to serve a good-sized family of girls. Lach of the latter knows a certain amount: the only daughter is thoroughly trained in everything. Ami her temper is so sweet, too, as a rule. You see. there is no opposition in the home to ruffle it : she has not to light ami scramble* with brothers and sisters for a share of everything: consequently’ she is not selfish. Moreover, her manners are much better than those of a girl from a home where there were many brothers and sisters. The latter type is apt to be a bit of a tomboy; the only daughter is womanly altogether, there is no forwardness with her. An only daughter can manage a household well. Her mother has taught her the value of method. She won’t get into difficulties. She knows just how to set the day’s work going, and all things are done with precision. And she will guard your money well. Her mother has taught her where to buy. and bow to buy: the kind of articles to avoid, and the right kind to purchase, and so forth. Economical she is. but never stingy. You will find that she does not care over much for company. and in wearing apparel she is thrifty. The girl who is extravagant in dress is usually one from a large family of girls, where each sister tries, so far as possible, to outshine the other. The girl with sisters, too. has many companions; some, perhaps, of doubtful character: the companions of the only daughter are generally highly ifespectable girls. The father and

mother see to it that the daughter’s friends are well behavedTrue enough, it takes a little courage to woo an only child, and when it comes to asking “papa” the matter is serious; hut there is usually no difficulty; the girl herself will attend to that. She can manage father all right, and will make a man’s way as smooth as a suitor’s well could be.

There is another way’ of looking at the matter. You may’ think it a sordid way. but there is a deal of the practical in it. The girl will, in all likelihood, inherit most of her parent’s goods and cash. Now, this is something in these days. You need not deny’ it : you would be very pleased to marry’ a girl with the certainty of cash coming her way one day’. But a very’ important consideration where an only daughter is concerned is the absence of any’ kind of brothers or sisters, old or young. \\ e all know how lovers are tormented when there is a crowd of boy’s and girls around, but look at the peace and contentment which reigns when the courting epidemic is strong within you and your “object” is an only’ daughter.