Now here's my family.

I was a White, you know, like your aunt Abrahama.

There's consumption in our family, the worst kind.

I never had any doubt but what Henry and I would have lost our children, if we'd had any." "But you didn't have any," said Rose, in a curiously naive and hopeful tone.
"We are the only ones of all that got married about the time we did who didn't have any," said Sylvia, in her conclusive tone.
"But, Aunt Sylvia," said Rose, "you wouldn't stop everybody's getting married?
Why, there wouldn't be any people in the world in a short time." "There's some people in the world now that would be a good sight better off out of it, for themselves and other folks," said Sylvia.
"Then you don't think anybody ought to get married ?" "If folks want to be fools, let them.

Nothing I can say is going to stop them, but I'll miss my guess if some of the girls that get married had the faintest idea what they were going into they would stop short, if it sent them over a rail-fence.