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What is the Right Thing To Do? ‘The idea phage as the object of life—an end for which girls are to be trained—is often to be the very stumble ock in the way. If they are allowed to grow up think of mar riage only as a possibility, as an inci dent in their lives which may or may not happen, will we et be © pres whatever we has in store or them? Freed from that anxiety about their future which characterizes many young women now unconsciously influenced by the popular idea that mar riage is the only suitable destiny of wo man, there would seem to be a chance that they might be trained to be happy, whether they were married or single. While acknowledging that a well-as serted is without doubt the truest and best life for both man and woman, can it be denied that an un happy union is the greatest of sorrows @ woman’s life, to say nothing of the train of evils which it brings others! If this idea that marriage is the feet of necessity of woman's aid be removed, there would cer tainly be more suitable and fortunate unions and fewer of the hasty, ill-con sidered, unwise ones. So long as two people who know little of each other's present character, tastes and habits, and nothing of each other’s antecedents will rashly join themselves for life after an acquaintance of a few weeks, so long must we look for the horrors of the newspapers, the scandals of the divorce courts and the life-long martyrdom of those who bear the ills that they cannot fly from. If girls did not learn from use about them, from much of their reading, from the very atmosphere of society that they were ex to mar ry somebody, they would hardly deem it possible to take such a risk as that of marriage without due consideration. They would wait for the certainty that it was the right thing to do, and that the right persons for them had appeared. Let them feel that the end and aim of their lives is to be fit to be women and to fill their places as such in the worl that so much needs both good women and good men, and there is no fear that they will not be quite equal to the situa tion, if they find it best for their ha ness to marry.—Henrietta Davis, in Good Housekeeping.
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Annapolis Evening Capital
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Mon, Jun 07, 1886
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