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Show Colltg Education and Matrimony. Whether or not liberal and broad education has I a tendency to keep women from matrimony has long been a favorite thejne of discussion among those interested in the problems of the hour. It has often been asserted and with some show of reason that after a young woman educates herself her-self to that point where she finds it comparatively easy to make her own way, she does not turn to matrimony mat-rimony so readily as her ignorant sister. But Miss M. Cary Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr and an acknowledged authority and leader in the educational world, says that college women do marry and, better still, marry wisely; In an address before the National Federation of Women's Clubs of St. Louis, Miss Thomas pointed out that the explanation of only 50 per cent of college col-lege women marrying lay in the fact that they come from the classes of which only 50 per cent of the women do marry. She says that college has nothing noth-ing whatever to do with it, except to givC the women wo-men intelligence to select their husbands a trifle more sensibly. This isj shown by the fact that college col-lege women marry two-thirds more men that are college graduates than their non-collegiate sisters, and that their husbands' average yearly income is much higher than the income of the husbands of the non-collegiate class. Miss Thomas also points out that there are only two classes in which virtually all the women marry: The working class, where the wife is not an expense, ex-pense, but contributes her share toward the family support, and the wealthy class, where the women bring inherited wealth to their husbands, v An interesting field of investigation might be opened at this point by taking up the question of the ratio of divorces among college women and non-college non-college women. It is probable that the result would show that education is an aid toward happy marriage, or at least prevents strained relations from reaching the point where the power of the courts is sought to break them. |