Do Not Hurry to Get Married.
GIRLS, do not be in a hurry to get married. If you are but sixteen, do not allow such an idea to get into your head for at least four years. Do not 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. Do not live under the impression that you must accept the first love-sick youth who proposes. Be patient, deliberate, and sagacious. There is a world of happiness for you between sixteen and twenty. 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 twenty 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 worthy man is not only a woman's privilege, but, unless married too young, her best and highest development, 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.—Sel.