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Rh at once into the cares of married life, I trust that increased knowledge and wisdom, on the part of the young and old, will prevent such immature marriages, and give women an opportunity of being more fully developed in body and mind, before they subject either to the severe trials which belong to wives and mothers.”

is a subject upon which a great deal has been written and a great deal thought: but the world is yet very slow in perceiving and adopting what is true in relation to it; and such will continue to be the case until this important law is clearly understood and acknowledged, viz.: that the end for which a thing is done gives quality to the act. Whoever marries without having just ideas of so important a relation, runs great danger of committing an error that will render turbid for life all the well-springs of her happiness. This being the case, we ask of our fair young friends to consider deeply what we shall