THE TIME TO MARRY.
i 1 believe in young marriages. At times I almost feel inclined to lay it down ;is a hard and fast rule. “ Marry young, or don ’t marry at all. ’’ lor as ue grow older our power of illusion grows loss. Wo become painfully analytical and see the obverse side or the medal in everybody. We become disillusioned; in other words, almost cynical at times. I am a hundred times more exacting in my demand* on people now than wb°Tt 1 was !*• It is not so easy work up aumiration tor even the people most worthy of it. And ti.v for falling in love —it becomes increasingly di frit till every year after I*'*, until possibly one reaches what in Frame they mil the "dangerous age.*’ when a rush of '•round youth, a sort ot romantic second wind, loads women of or thereabout* to ding themselves into all kinds of mad affairs. But marriages contracted in this artificial and short lived romantic period what might bo called sentimental atavism — nearly always turn out disastrously. Youth is the natural time for contracting marriages.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 11 June 1920, Page 4
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