Remember that it is your child, not you, who has to be suited with a life partner.
The girl who may call forth his warmest affection may be the last person in the world you would have chosen, yet you are not the one to be concerned.
In the January, 1916, _Ladies' Home Journal_ there is an excellent editorial bearing upon this subject, as follows: A mother got to worrying about the girl to whom her son had become engaged.

She was a nice girl, but the mother felt that perhaps she was not of a type to stimulate the son sufficiently in his career.

The mother wisely said nothing, however, until two important facts dawned upon her: First, that possibly her boy was of the order which did not need stimulation.

As she reflected upon his nature, his temperament, she arrived at the conclusion that what he required in a life partner might be someone who would prove a poultice rather than a mustard plaster or a fly blister.
This was her first discovery.
The second was not precisely like unto it, but was even more important--that the son, and not the mother, was marrying the girl.

The question as to whether or not the girl would suit the mother as a permanent companion was a minor consideration about which she need not vex her soul.