THE TRUTH ABOUT MARRIAGE
you do not, may be it will be all right for you to marry a girl who does not know anything about art or artistic things. But, if you do, it would make life interesting after marriage to be able to share your enthusiasms with your wife.
Do you think this girl can cook or sew or keep house or make a pleasant home? Married people need to eat and to live in homes and it may be trying to have a domestic dumb-bell for a wife.
Does she care for home life?
Does she care for children?
Do you think she is unselfish?
It is hard to tell, for her good looks are apt to make one forget personal qualities. And yet after marriage, if she is cold and hard and selfish and uninterested in you and your problems and in your mutual home and in having children and in the big things that make life thrill with interest, of course you will not be happy.
However, you must judge for yourself, but be careful. Do not act in a hurry. There are many fish in the sea and many lovely girls yet to be had.
Let us think of a young man taking a walk along Broadway in Los Angeles, or State Street in Chicago, or Broadway in New York. Any one of these streets will show any young man a vast multitude of girls and women of all types. Let us say that we
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