MODERN MEN MARRY LATE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 93, 15 May 1909, Page 3

MODERN MEN MARRY LATE.

THEV ARE TOO «KLF-SATISI'IED.

it is generally agreed that young men nowadays show much less, disposition to marry, above all to marry young, than was nmniiested .by their fathers and grandfathers.

The same, in less degree, may be said of women; but that, as Kipling would say, "is another story.'' •'•Different times, difl'creiit manners": ttie changed conditions of social life ham much o do with this change of heart. in the "good old times," of which we hcaj. so nnicli, it was .the correct thiuc lor a man to be the head of afainily. PKESEXT-PAV WIVUS EXPECT HOKE. In these degenerate days things are sadly altered, and he who would marry «t twenty-live cither must have a couilortable and assured income or be possessed of a siiblimo belief in himself and his 'bruk-vlcvt.

He must be ready to torcgo most of tic pl«„ur,. s ~,,,1 luxuries which custom a id popular habit have converted into a most necessities; and, ala,, he will dimmer the young wife of the preseit f.;',V M !r s "'"". »'»"■' '»"> Performs ldi less than did her motlivr thirty years

. hu- In no mean, will be content to sit at home ..veiling- and dam stockings lul-' her iinsba.ul goes to <h, club, or, I he be lhe exemplary „„,„ his father .i», slays „t home „| so and reads aloud """ s , om " ""l»ovi„g b„„ k . Slh , wi „ ' l ;,; , "! Wl "'" "|Ko,la,e to be content to I "'.", '! ■-'J 1 ""' "' <'" l '' l ? "ill, the nextu„? ■ n*"" «"% «nd ucllehtlu hie, L ,„ u, t . , mill0t0 „ of \ u J h Uis b,.,,,,,5, ~f ~,, t | lMe t| , h ,„ s t]at , . ""'" "'to-day. win, is inueh older slmi.iVT ,""""''' i " tl '" ll< -''l that he *""ld be, and so understands the Z'iv'r !"""' ° f , ril, »—u»l«« he t. wis „ "V"' '""' so . lo,^'ts tp use his im oiu-dodgcs iiiiitriinonv, gently but «■!<» «t the charmer just as long as hi j

CONTKNTK,) WITH HIS C%U). Uol ten happens' u ,. lt beforß a".';?,!'i ( H,' lri 't ,wst - tiiesusct 'i ,tiu& /rn„ , , ll(m " lllto " steadygoing, clmb-naimthig ibadnlor, who is :;: 1 t ;,"; 1 wi f\^.™^/« u /ta ! U ■»'|J li.is ii.. inclination towards mnrria-e .vevcrtiiolcss, the fuel remains that """ i !.","' lil Iraly ta in luve the,,," »'' eX,,K;, r hi "' is not wl,£ " >l.«ll marry Her, hut wliutlior She "ill marry hi,,,.

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The Eiffel T0w..,-, I'aris. is ÜB4ft hijA, clt-n 1 ' "" '"' S ant St '" '" usc ia Urcs -

Ued-haircd people are least likely to ;:» balil.

A Kii*:ian does not become of age until lie is Iwentv-.six. At a Jewish 'wedding the woman stands „n the right of the .-room I'hough Hank of Knglaim , ll>tP s are legal tender ft, Knglaml and Wales llicy are not so in Se.itland <„• in Ireland. ' Hetoiy the introduction of tea and eollee one ancestors ~-ed various kinds ot beer, and their only substitute for Mijr.iv was honey.

Hie Japanese have three forms ol salutation: one tor saluting an infcrioi; another for saluting „„ ,„,„„], .„„, a tliird lor naluthig a superior It is a curious truth that a butterfly van be frozen hard and left so for some hoiirri, yet on being removed to warmth the insect will recover and llv awav. ilurty to forty thousand earthquakes .'early disturb the surface of our -looe ml ol these not moiy than sixty are Heavy enough to ,l„ any serious damage. «t the eightyeight miles of the Suez U ,ial sixty-six were out and tventvtwo are lakes.

A locomotive gives four puffs for every revolution of its driving-wheels. IJi'ivmg-wheel,' average about 20ft in circumference.

Children arc , m t received in workliouscs in either France or Austria. They are linni-Jpfl out with ~( . „sniit families. ' In (.miiiiiiv. if a doctor is wanted suddenly in the night, one goes to the nearest emergency station and fetches one. <if the several doctors who arc always doing their turn of night duty. Opals often fall from their set tin* 111-came they vxpand with heat more train other precious atones, and. consc<|uent!y, force open the gold wliieh holds tliom la place. Over lil'ty ton* of leather is used annually tor covering foothalls used in the lilted 1vinj.n1..,,,. rie. hides of at lea<t 101 l animals,;,. ;,. ,| f,„. (his purpose. I Bombay claim., ihe greatest de.Jtv of population in tl„. world, and its ciaim is only dhspn.,,l hj, .Atrra. also in India. I tiiinhayha, Ki.ipoua.peracreinceitain areas.

tile highest clouds reach ten ,„i|es above our heads. They „Ve the white', feathery forms whieh we „. c on a clear day. Althom.l, apparently motionless, they travel ti,„„ seventy-live to ninety miles an hour. * .11 lie cleiks mid manager* have their heads.struck.off and thrown into a l,e ip , FoTih" I?' V l "' l,o " kfi of tho «™ I'm the Inst live hundred veins- not a -* bank in China „„ s %?

In some parts of Siheria a bridegroom '?„ - Tls llo "V°»™Mds his wiic to «e I h,s „,ots. In one is „ whip, of"tl i tl "V ,t 1 1,0r ,.M , " rs[ '' Tl»> contents of the boo she first selects f ( ,r removal I- esage w '"«7 J>« i» to be generou omit the w„p. t0 raakv h , ~ l lior choice is auspicious. l AooonlingloDn J. Enquire, the ideal ZL! wmis * bma * buttw < « nd