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Show 'Future Wives' Don't Know They're Lucky We, the Women By KITH MIIXETT Twenty-five sweet young things who are enrolled at New York university have formed a club called the "Future Wives of America Amer-ica society." The first thing the organization plans to do to petition the legls-taro legls-taro a let gists maery at 17 without the okeh of their parents. It might be a good thing if their petition stirred up legislators to change the law so that a girt of 17 can't marry even with the consent con-sent of her parents. All the "marry-while-young" advice ad-vice to the contrary the girl who marries at 17 today stands to lose a lot. When grandma married at 17, It was a good thing. Because all girls did back In grandma's dsy was sK around waiting to be mar-riMl. mar-riMl. - They didn't have the chances of today's girls to go on to school, to get jobs, and to develop within themselves an Independence of spirit that makes hurrying Into marriage no longer a necessity for women. Besides, if grandma was too busy hsvlng children and taking care of them ever to develop her mind enough to be a real companion of grandpa, that was all right Grandpa Grand-pa didn't expect her to be able to discus politics and world affairs. af-fairs. But today's young mea expect their wives to be fslrly Intelligent Intelli-gent The girl who marries young is giving up her chance to equal her husband's educational advantages, advan-tages, a fact she is likely to regret in a hurry. The girl who gets a good education educa-tion and has a few years' experience experi-ence in the business world before she marries is a hicky glrL She Is too lucky to be sitting around a college campus mooning about how wonderful It would be to be Mrs. at 17 instead of a coed. |