WEDLOCK IN TIME It is a happy idea to marry while we are young--a fine thing--a good thing--_a pleasant duty indeed_ to marry the woman of our choice at a time of life when both are at an age when adjustment is natural and lasting loyalties are implanted in our hearts and minds for all time.

We make a sad mistake when we postpone so important a step just for the sake of becoming a rich man first so that our bride-to-be may step into luxurious quarters and never have to lift her dainty hands except to sip from the glass of nectar we have set before her.

The real facts compiled by the statistical "System Sams" are against this idea.

The balance comes up in red ink _on the wrong side of the ledger_.
According to these gentlemen the average mortal is likely to be very fat and much over forty before he can make an offering according to his first generous impulses and the chances are he will never reach the goal in this life.

By the time he might be financially ready there is a hard glint in his eye, and he will be looking for the mote in the eye of his lady love.