Show 00 1 Old Maids Should Not Be Teachers 1 1 If Roger W V. Babson could correct the curricula of the women's colleges of ot today he would institute courses courses' that would teach the modern girl these four principles 1 I. How lIow to hold her ber husband 2 2 How Ho to keep her health 3 How to keep her own money money and and her husbands 4 4 How to keep her culture He does not approve of the modern education of women Every girl who Is trained for tor the business world Is selling gold dollars for halves Every girl who goes into an office chair at 18 to remain for the next twelve or fifteen years years the the best in her life goes life goes to to the after that And every girl who goes goe Into industry Just to await the time until he shall be earning money enough to support her is killing the goose that lays the golden gulden eggs because she ehe is working for less money than he will command and Keeping II him longer out of a legitimate Job All of these are theories of Mr Babson the man who states ex explicitly ex- ex explicitly that he knows nothing at all about the education of women He does not approve of it as it stands and his theories ho he has practiced upon both his wife and their daughter Mr r. r Babson is isan isan an exponent of the theory of part time work that he believes In time is to solve soho the problem of ot the woman in in Industry Edith Babeon Babeon Babson Bab- Bab eon son the daughter is being educated on the outline discussed by her father although the courses that she Is taking at college are not labeled in hi Just that way But they are shaped to fit that end j By By y ROGER W. W BABSON BOSTON Mass I I dont don't know anything about the education of oC women I dont don't try to educate them at the in In- In My specialty is boys Here lIere I teach college ge students the most approved business methods Every group of oC five has bas Its own secretary and we accept not nota a D. line of work In long hand Every student student student stu stu- stu- stu dent has to dictate to the secretary to the or the I dont don't train them to be doctors nor lawyers nor engineers ers but I train them to be business executives And the reason that I do not open up the course to women is because I do not believe in that Kind of oC education for women I bell believe believe- ve In ta an entirely different different dif dl- dif dif- ferent kind of training I If I had been running thIs school BOO years ago I should I-should have taught the boys to hunt to fish to catch birds on the wing and fish in weirs The mans man's Job Jobin jobIn jobin in life liCe is to provide for the family family and and that was the way he had barb to do it years ago Today It is a different method but the Job Is the same Now then youre you're not going to agree with me but Im I'm going to say this Just the same I dont don't believe in the woman In Industry although it ill II becomes me rae meto meto raeto to say It as I am an employer er of large numbers of girls But every girl who comes In here is selling gold dollars for halves Just as long as she sells them I will continue to buy and so will every other business man She comes in here hereto hereto to work until some man earns enough money to support her and by so doing she is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs Just so long Iong as she works Just so long is she postponing her chances at happiness s for she is keeping that ha t fl man a out of a jo Job rth that ho he should have ve GIRLS WILL GET MARRIED What do we do to girls girls' We Ve take taka an year old girl put her Into an office chair let her stay there for twelve or fifteen years and then send her to the scrap heap help That's what it really amounts to You Just get a girl trained where she Is of some value to you ou when she gets married That is as it should be but I personally would not train a woman to a high executive position on which a good deal o of my business depended de But now that we have decided th that t the theman's theman's theman's mans man's first Job Is to provide the larder for Cor forthe the home what Is the womans woman's The first Job of or woman is to hold her husband To make him happy contented efficient and loyal to herself What does the college do to fit It for Cor this great aim o of womankind They fit for teachers that is all The average womans woman's college fits girls only to become teachers Of Ot course there are some branches secretarial schools and the like that have broken away but I am speaking of ot the tho big colleges What do they teach that will help a girl to hold a husband I should give them a good strong course in practical psychology We teach psychology in our Institute business psychology to teach our boys how to make do as you wish how to make customers buy what you wish how to in influence In- In fluence others to do as you jou ou want them to doWhy do Why y not th then P personal s psychology to te iv g teach wives s how to make husband to what their wives want them to Then I should give them a good strong course In sex There is no dodging this issue It is a big one and one that en enters enters en- en Into every marriage It cannot be Ignored Every girl who is married gets a big surprise O Of course nature being what It is s she adjusts herself to it but It is a surprise and a shock at first It Is something that she knows nothing of ot Do they teach It in the women's colleges colleges' They would not know how to teach It HI I The teachers In women's colleges are all old maids they dont don't know anything about it WOULD EXCLUDE OLD MAIDS MAID And right here I If I had the handling of women's colleges Id I'd make another change I wouldn't have any but married women on the faculty Il 11 let every old maid go and substitute a married woman for tor her And the married married mar mar- ried ned women would teach the tha college girls sex Next In Importance for the girl to learn is how wat to keep her r health i hwe Its It's a fact a that a try as we will we cannot cannot can can- not teach the girl to take taka care of her health I haven't a R doubt that of or your friends every college girl g that you know has returned from college less physically fit It than when she Bhe went away And keepIng keepIng keep- keep Ing lag her tier health is closely allied to the preceding preceding preceding pre pre- ceding subjects sUbjects psychology and sex Third I would teach her how to keep her money Every girl who is married should keep her own money There is no more alone sense in the girl g saying when she Is ii married What I have is 18 yours than there would be In giving her husband her r right hand handor I or her right eye to do with as she pleases She Sho should keep her own money and look after it herself She should learn something something some some- thing of her husbands husband's business too Too many men today are afraid arald to talk finance at home They are as close about money as women are about sex fourth I should not neglect the culture either In my my- ideal college course I think I would divide the time between these four tour topics giving giving- about quarter one-quarter to the cultural subjects For culture Is needed in every da day living quite as much muchas as any other thing NOT FIT FOR LIFE The college does not fit girls for living living- and neither does the high school The high school fits for college but it does not fit It for life liCe and this is a a. crime The matter of or education goes in cycles Just today we are subscribing subscribing- to the belief beller that the child should do no work I look forward to the time when every high school child must have a Job My theory Is to teach the boy or the girl the thing that he be or she should know as the time comes for him to use usa it When my daughter was 10 14 she aha was studying foreign exchange and what good did It do her When she traveled through Europe some years later she had forgotten forgotten forgotten forgot forgot- ten all about it If It the high school period could be extended over eight years in instead In- In instead stead stend of or four tour with students studying half hal halfa a day and working half hal a day their studies might then be considered of oC some use to them CARRYING ON TWO JOBS That as my guess la Is is the solution of the woman in industry and the educational problem today The time is corning com corn ing ing- when women omen will work at a a. gainful occupation for half hal a day and spend the theother theother theother other half hal In work In their O own homes hornet In that way neither industry or the home homo life will suffer As It Is It today the married married mar mar- ried ned woman who is In industry la Is trying to carry carryon on two Jobs and doing neither of them well Just to Illustrate the point this IK is a. a theory that Mr Babson has hag exemplified in hi his hiE- home life Mrs Babson ha has ba been his tr partner ro and nl treasurer re of the Babson Statistical Organization since noe noeth th Us Its organ twenty years rears ago She 1 la is un still treasurer of or it it In the vel very beginning I lA I she gave halt half o of her time to her business duties and half hal to the work o of her home Today she is making a still greater division divIsion division divi divI- sion of or her time She is managing managing- her home lome she is carrying her work as treasurer treasurer treasurer treas treas- of the tha corporation and she is at present taking a course in accountancy In n her husbands husband's Institute STUDIES FOR WOMAN If It I were choosing choosing- a course for a j young oung- woman I would recommend the following studies I would select psychology sex h hygiene giene and public speaking to teach her first of or all aU how to keep her husband Next would come physiology bacteriology bacteriology and hygiene to teach her how to keep her health Then would come coma economics economics eco ceo accountancy and Investment to teach each her how to keep her money and last lost of ot all history literature and one language lan Ian guage to teach her how to keep her cul cul- cul- cul ture tune When one stops to think that there were in the United States last year one- one tenth as many divorces as thero there were marriages It is time that positive steps stepH were taken to save the integrity of or the American family REMEDY DIVORCE EVIL I If there are no it Is la a simple matter but If It there are children nothing doing doing- And in practically every divorce sex and finances play the leading roles Which h only r g goes to prove e that education a ht stomy right eb on the lines might b benefit the sit sit- Education for women has not progressed reseed at all aU since Mary Lyons Lyon's day Education Education Edu Edu- cation for tor men is constantly changing There Thero are colleges of or engineers medical schools and law colleges but the womans woman's collegiate maintains the same old curri curri- culum I spoke of that point with the president dent of or a a. womans woman's college only tho the other day and I told her that womans woman's education tion tien was Just where it had been that It had bad not progressed at all What do you think her answer was wal Why bother other she aha said laid as long leng as aa we have more applications today than we can handle Or in other words as long Jone AS aa the demand keeps up why bother to try to give the students anything different than the tha same oi oM v that they have hava had for the past decade whether it fits them for life or not In my the tho womans woman's coll college g today today to- to o- o day dav Is b being being- run for the benefit of ot th faculty and the trustee trustees rather rathor than for th the tho students who attend |