Marriage is looked upon often as the consummation of the romance of life, whereas, it is simply its beginning. It is called a matter of the heart, which it should be, but it should also be an affair of the intellect. It is fortunate that the day of early marriage has passed, since the early marriage implied a choice guided almost wholly by the emotions, as the intellect is slower in its development than the heart. But marriage should involve both heart and brain and fulfill the chief desire of both.
One of the Best Things
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(From “The Duty of Surplus Women,” in “The Independent.”)
If marriage laws are wrong, mend them. If marriage customs offend, change them. If other people’s marriages do not please, improve on them. But marriage itself remains a good thing—one of the best things in the world.
What Is Love?
By Elizabeth Philip
(English contemporary. Quoted from “Women the World Over.”)
What is Love, that all the world