Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1901 — Critical Year of Married Life. [ARTICLE]

Critical Year of Married Life.

‘Some folks Lave a way of declaring that the first year of their married life Is the most trying,” writes Edward Bok In the Ladies’ Home Journal. “But where one gets a close knowledge of several families the conviction Is brought home that the trying period lies beyond the first year. I should fix it rather at the third year, when the pretty trousseau Is showing weer and needs replenishing; when the weddlug presents have lost their lustre, and this thing has worn out and that thing has to be replaced; when a little family Is growing up and doctor’s bills are Introduced Into the family reckoning. That is the trying period when Interests are apt to become very close. Likewise calculations. Then It Is that the saving of the comparatively care-free and less expensive first year of married life comes In handy, or Is sadly missed If the Income was then lived up to In unnecessary buying and foolish entertaining. A great deni of happiness In this world Is wrecked by debt, and generally the debt could have been avoided If a little more care and common sense bad been exercised.”