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Show Timely Topics TRAIN MEN FOR MARRIAGE? Should a man be trained for marriage? If so. how? I'ome. tha auricestion of a certain college prof.aaor of the Southweat thut the young men of tha country Include In their currtculum a course of training for marriage. Why not? ;irl have had their domestic science courses for years. Why exempt men, depriving them of equally necessary training vn tha dutlea of husbandhood? Many Items might he Included In auch a course. Tact, control of temper under difficulties, remembrances of all family and wifely anniversaries, how to treat relatins-ln-law. unfailing accomplishment of all errands (including the mailing of letters!, the way to propitiate ruffled Irmlnloe sensibilities all these courses taken up one by one. A course in textile and color combinations would sava gry hairs gained in matching samples of buying gifts, and a course In fiction would assist In making hubby's little explanation, leas transparent than they usually are. Kven a smattering of tha arts of cooking and dirhwashlng might not come amiss. There seem to be endless possibilities. The only difficulty would be to condense Into the limits of a short course what It takes most men all their HVes to acquire. W. L. Oeorge. the novelist, though he may never have seen the suggestion of the proposed course, suggests sug-gests something thut might add greatly to the Intricacies of the syllabus. "Men are all right, he declarea, -so long as they are fed and flattered, but a woman demanda to be mentally interested and this Important thing Is overlooked over-looked by most husbands." Wichita Hcacon lnd.). |