Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-06 | Page 16 | Preparing to be 'Better Wife'

PREPARING TO BE 'BETTER WIFE' iMMwiir(M'j w 1 L : : c ,rr l' gJfJJ(gJJjaJsJsBsjBBjiii(n rftSSt4iS SMM MnMaurina Andres son believes in being a wif. 1937 style. By working all day .n a bus.-nets bus.-nets office, sh has learned fo tjive and take, and how to bear responsibility which makes for hDDier and mora lasting marriage. Punching a typewriter, girls, is better training train-ing for wifely duties than swapping gossip in the carlor. . . , . Salt Lake City probably shrus-ged its shoulders shoul-ders wi'h a "but that's New York" comment when Cornell university savants recently announced an-nounced "girls who quit jobs to wed make the best wives, while the stay-at-homes with no responsibilities re-sponsibilities before marriage are the poorest Local divorce court attorneys admittedly on the "inside" in knowledge of marital trials-maintained trials-maintained Wednesday, however, that young women with business experience have proved the "best wives" locally, too. These business girls know the value of money, have learned how necessary a give and take policy is in maintaining harmonious personal relations, and, as a result, are seen less often in divorce court than their sisters who find marriage mar-riage their first major responsibility, these lawyers law-yers contend. On the other side of the picture, one-time working girls demand "better husbands,' for having earned their own living once, they know they can do it again if necessary, explained one attorney with more than 150 divorces to his CreAnyone who imagines, however, that these pronouncements are causing weeping and wailing wail-ing throughout the city are mistaken. The truth seems to be that young women capable of qualifying as "stay-at-homes without responsibilities" are scarcer than the proverbial hen's teeth. . . - Canvass of homes containing young women of marriageable age indicated Wednesday that those not holding down some sort of wage-paying job are either vacationing in anticipation of returning return-ing to school in the fall, busvine themselves in civic center, Junior League, Y. W. C. A. or other community activities, or actively operating the household. , . , The one real stay-at-home finally located proved very coy. "I think I'm a good marriage prospect, despite de-spite your lawyers and the college survey, she insisted, "but please don't use my njnje, '"J there's a young man on the string, and I dont want to frighten him."