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Show OBLIGATIONS OF HEAD OF FAMIIA Subsidizing Yorthy Sons-in-Law Among Tliem? The responsibility for a girl's happy hap-py marriage at the normal time rests today with her father, not her liance, according to Good Housekeeping Magazine. William McDermott, Chicago religious re-ligious editor, discussing frankly the marriage prospects of his own daughters, in the publication, proposes pro-poses a dowry to help depression-struck depression-struck men to establish homes, rather rath-er than delay marriage past the age which nature dictates. He says he is willing to subsidize his sons-in-law for the first years of marriage, for the sake of his daughters' happiness. hap-piness. "Why," he asks, "should I consider consid-er my obligation to my daughters completed when they have finished college, any more than when they have finished high school? I believe it is fully as good an investment and almost, if not fully, as Important to spend two or three thousand doilaVs, or more, if necessary, in helping my daughters, if they need it, to marry happily during their mating time, and in assisting their husbands to complete their life-work preparation, if they have no other source of support, as it is to see them through their earlier education." educa-tion." . Mr. McDermott says that the hosts of non-marrying young men today depress him more than the financial crash. He believes undergraduates in college are too young to marry, but that the average graduate student stu-dent is better off married, living in his own home, with a wife who is interested in his career, than in a boarding home or fraternity house. "If either of my daughters should marry a man in training for a profession pro-fession or business, I would urge her to study along with him, to act as his secretary and assistant as well as his encourager, and to aid him in every way to succeed," he continues. con-tinues. "She would he gleaning much of that which will occupy him for a lifetime and which interests him most. They will have a unity or compatability of education which can only enhance the completeness of their marriage and add to their companionship. com-panionship. If husband and wife grow up together in law, education, business, or profession, there is a common denominator of inestimable value." Mr. McDermott believes the Ideal time for marriage for a woman is between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-six. He approves of college educations for women, and believes they should be able to support themselves, them-selves, and to have careers, if they choose, but not at the sacrifice of a home and children. The present tendency of society, he thinks, is to deaden the instinct for home and for children, and to chont young people out of romance and idealism. "The problem of marrying at the opportune time is not one for youth, . struggling today against greater odd than ever to get ahead, hut fur the-parents the-parents to solve," lie concludes. |