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AT What Age Should a Man Marry

Our first enquiry, then, is the age at which a man ought to turn his thoughts towards marriage. The law of the State of New York, and of many other states, and the common law of England on which these laws are based, all assign as the age of marrige fourteen years for a man and twelve years for a woman. But we are against this. We have a feeling that it is too soon. A man of fourteen still lacks something in breadth, - and even in height. We doubt if his character has reached the maturity that it will have at sixty. Similarly a woman of twelve is still in a way, - indeed in a whole lot of ways -undeveloped, she has scarcely seen enough of life to be able to select a mate with the same certainty with which the shipping companies pick them. We are informed, it is true, that the Hindu women are married at twelve years of age. But on this point we can only refer our readers to the Hindoo edition of our manual. Western women, at twelve, are not yet formed. The wise young man will wait until they get bigger. Anyone who wants one of those little wee Hindus is welcome to her.
At what age, then, should a young girl or a young man begin to think of marriage? We are not prepared to indicate any precise moment in life. But there will come a time in the life of any of them at which new aspirations and new wants will turn their thoughts towards marriage. When a young girl begins to feel that she wants a house of her own, -a large one, - with a butler and a chauffeur, and two motor cars and a box at the Opera, then the time has come when she must seek a husband. Her father will never give these things. So too with the young man. The time comes when his surroundings begin to pall on him - when he ceases to care to spend his evenings with billiard markers, prize fighters and dog fanciers: when he begins to want to pass his time with some companion softer than a prize fighter and dearer, - if it is possible, - than a dog fancier, - then, we say, and we say it emphatically, the young man ought to marry.