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MANY YOUNG A SUBJECT IN Wiel ESTED, PEOPLE ARE DEEPLY INTER From the New York Herald. “As to the age when people should * said the Rev. Dr. McKend marry, ree in his sermon last evening in the Bedford street Methodist church, the lady should, in my opinion, be twenty or twenty-two, and the gen tleman five years her senior. Yoor men cannot marry extravagant girls who expect as good a home as their parents were only able to acquire af ter many years’ toil. The deceit racticed on both sides is very great. The ugly suitor gets a tailor to hide his defciencies; the unsightly maid en cully in the aid of her rouge pot and milliner. Until recently mar riage brokerage was carried on in France. We Americans are guilty of the same thing in another way. Mothers sell daughters to the high eat, bidders and daughters sell them selves for gold to men old enough to be their grandfathers. Such women would no more choose honest me chanics for husbands than they would convicts from the penitentiary. There is no reason why women should not choose as well as men. At present the men have all the advantage. No girl is fit to be a wife till she can, if necessary. Cook meal, make a dress, and keep a house in order. Accom plishments are good, but a tired hus band would much prefer a good square meal. All matches that are brought about by selfish motives are unholy, and women who marry for psition or wealth are just as guilty as those who sell their virtue for a given sum. They are, in fact, living a life of legalized prostitution. Marriages in which there is no adap tation are unlawful. As oil and wa ter will not unite without alkaline so many couple are united by means of gold. Such artificial made match es are often broken. You may force alcohol and gum camphor to blend, but at the presence of water the alcohol elopes and leaves the camphor a grass widow. In like manner a third party oftens steps in between a badly assorted pair, with what result can be easily seen. None but those who have been united ‘through pure motives and deep, abiding love, have fulfilled the con ditions under which a man and a woman may really become husband and wife.”
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Freeport Daily Bulletin
Freeport, Illinois, US
Fri, Jun 22, 1883
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