But
IN ORDER TO REAP WE MUST SOW.
Our bachelor friend of forty wants to reap just as badly as you, but his
fields will be waste while yours will be growing. When you get your
life insured at twenty-one they charge you about ten times what the risk
really is. Why? Because, although they have not the least idea that you
are going to die now, they know the mortgage is on your life, and the
dues, when you pass fifty, would, in justice, be higher than mortal man
would pay. Therefore they even it up.
YOU LAY ASIDE A SURPLUS
for your old age, and, until lately, the courts held you could collect
that surplus, if your contract were not completed to the end of your
existence. Thus, in marrying, you are following the wise ordinance of
God. You are choosing a blooming, healthy young woman while you are
yourself fresh enough to attract her love and hold it. You are living as
a married man while you might, probably, live with more strictly selfish
personal comfort up to thirty-five as a single man; but you are,
AFTER THIRTY-FIVE,
immensely better off than the single man, and you will, besides, always
be given a better place in society than he, because society likes to see
every member in its ranks doing his duty like a man and helping to bear
the burdens as well as reap the benefits which our system of living
deals out to those who participate in it.
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