Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-10-15 | Page 4 | We, the Women

We the tile Women M of Y Young People Are Unfit for Marriage By RUTH MILLETT Half of the young women and tenths nine-tenths of the young men in the United States are unfit to wed because they dont don't know enough about homemaking an educator said aid the other day How he got his figures or how much they mean is not known But there is bound t to be a lot of truth ruth in the statement What kind of husband is the oung young man going to make who has hasan hasan hasin an in innate contempt for women their ideas deas their business ability and their heir which intelligence which is in all likelihood borrowed from his faher fath father fa- fa th her ther r What kind of wife wire Is the girl goIng going gong go go- Ing ng to make who knows so little about the hard nagging job of ot earnIng earnIng earn- earn Ing ng a living that she thinks her husband husband husband hus hus- band goes off on a holiday every morning And who expects him to get a raise every time she thinks they hey need one What kind of S husband will a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man be if he has the outmoded outmoded outmoded out out- notion that the money a aman aman aman man earns is HIS HIS and and whatever he doles oles out to his wife is a sign of his generous Onerous generous nature What kind of ot wife will he have if f he marries a girl who doesn't know that the way she accepts or neglects her responsibilities as homemaker and hostess will in large measure determine what place her husband takes in the community What kind of husband will a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man become if he enters marriage thinking We dont don't want any children and we arent aren't going to have any any ever And what sort of wife will any girl make if she enters marriage dependent on masculine admiration 1 and attention for her happiness What chance will any marriage have of lasting beyond the first year or two if either the husband or wife marries with the attitude Well Veil if this doesn't work theres there's always divorce Copyright 1938 for The Telegram