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Show THE CITIZEN 6 Women s World PSYCHOLOGY OF KISSING. Dr. Charles E. Baker, the psychologist, is shamefully confusing the ro- mantic issue. He says that after a man has kissed a girl he doesnt want Withhold thy kisses, fair her. maiden, says this cruel sage, more girls have been robbed of future husbands by the goodnight kiss than for any other reason. But how, oh, how does the dear chap know? Were they the spinsters who confided to him, or the bachelors? And is it the kiss itself or the impression that the lady is too free with them that w recks the prospect? On the score of decorum and exclusiveness the sage may be right in demeaning the value of the kiss, but it isnt good logic. Most of the irrevocable spinsters I know were brought up on that coy theory and are apt to blame their spinsterhood upon it. What the gentleman really means is that some other girls frisky goodnight kiss robbed those spinsters of their swains. But of course, the other girl was probably careful to imply that this was her very first offense. It is much more likely that it is when he surprises her conferring the goodnight kiss on some other fellow that he feels she is not the wife for him. That is doctrine why the is essential to gallantry. r kiss-snatchi- pre-marti- al ng which a woman was almost unable to bear her child because her abdominal Mothermuscles were undeveloped. hood was the first hard work she had ever been called upon to do, and naturally she was unequal to it. Proper athletic training improves a girls general health and physical condition. Far from injuring the next generation, I believe that it gives her children a superior inheritance of health and strength. Dr. MacCracken speaks only for the ' syStem in force at Vassar, which, however, he considers typical of the athletics of. American women. He bases his opinion on his own experience, and on the experience of many years crystallized in the college records. His convictions are supported by Dr. Elizabeth B. Thelberg, resident years, and physician for thirty-fou- r Miss Frances Ballentine, head of the Department of Physical Education, who inaugurated Vassars first field years ago. day twenty-seve- n If anything, our women have been coddled too much, said Dr. MacV Athletics are nothing more Cracken. than strong musucular exercise. Hockey is not as hard physical work as doing a family wash. We have only to consider the most populous sections of Europe to realize that muscular development does i not interfere with maternity. Holland, Belgium, Italy and Poland have the highest birth rate in proportion to the sustenance they yield per acre. In all these countries the peasant women perform heavy labor. In Holland and Belgium the women pull heavy loads along the roads. In Italy they work in the vineyards, and in ATHLETICS AND MOTHERHOOD. Poland they do the work of the farm. I have seen Bedouin women in Syria Miss Cowrays protesting voice tramp long distances with unbelievsoars slightly above the chorus of ably heavy loads; endurance tests that school managers, recently raisud in make our girls' long distance hikes London against athletics for girls. look like morning strolls. Yet the misThe burden of this ladys lament is sionary doctors say that the Arab wothat the Victorian girl was a better man bears children with less effort than any other race but the American mother than our modern feminine athletes. Every girl, it seems, has a Indian. iarge store of vital and nervous enVassar today presents living proof ergy, upon which to draw in the great of our system, in the daughters and crisis of motherhood. If the foolish even the granddaughters of physically virgin uses up this deposit account trained women. If acquired traits were in daily expenditures on the hockey hereditary, we might suppose that held or tennis court, as a boy can afsome of the girls playing on our presford to do, then she is left bankrupt ent teams inherited their skill in in her great crisis and her children basketball and hockey, along with their have to pay the bill. splendid physique, from their athletic Is there something in this idea, or mothers. While the sturdy babies of is it merely a manifestation of the recent graduates argue irrefutably recurrent nostaglia for the Good Old that the Increased range of athletics Days (whether of edible mammoths, in the last twenty years or so conknightly jousts or genteel females), tinues beneficial. which no generation can escape? Dr. H. N. MacCracken, president of Diplomats accredited to the Holy Vassar college, has no doubt that the See in Home are asked to add to inEnglish revolt against the modern girl vitations to official receptions a note has in it more of sentiment than scirequesting that women attending the ence. Miss Cowdrays assertion, he functions bow to Papal etiquetie by says, is unphysiological. decolete gowns. excessive avoiding "You might as well urge a young Mrs. Charles A. Wolverton of Camman not to deplete his mental energies den, N. J., has been endorsed for a by study during the year, but to keep place on the state board of health; them Intact for the great crisis of and Mrs. Seymour L. Cromwell of examinations. Mendham for the state board of eduGood muscular development Is an cation. advantage in childbirth. A case-warecently brought to my attention in Reading museum and art gallery has kiss-and-never-t- ell s L received a gift of sixty paintings valued at fifty thousand dollars, from Mrs. William L. Savage of Philadelphia as a memorial to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. de B, Keim. Under the provisions of a bill introduced in the Pennsylvania state legislature by Representative F. S. Edmonds, married men would be unable to mortgage their homes unless their wives joined in the mortgage. Some four hundred thousand Austrian children are being fed one nourishing meal a day by American charity and nearly two hundred thousand Austrian children are charity guests in other countries. Recently a descendent of Uncas I, a Mohican Indian chief, acted as sponsor for a submarine launched at Bridgeport, Conn. The sponsor dressed in tribal costume was Princess perhaps better known as Mrs. James 0. Gerbaine of Norwich, Conn. To-cocwa- s, When she is talkative, by 1 listen to her, If she dresses well, When she is cross, If she does you a favor, k When she is jealous, curev If dinner is cold, eat it When she looks pretty, te Let her feel how well yj, stand her. But never let her boss. Ex. JAPANS DIVORCE The assertion is made tk leads the world in proportk vorces to marriages. Uno$ ports state that the numb vorces in 1918 were 56,741, aj Q 503,236 marriages, a ratio of; ' vorces to each 1,000 marriage; is compared to the German 21.6 per thousand, which ig g the highest divorce rate in; Unofficial figures indicate thsf rate of increase in population f in 1919 by about and high cost of living. Thee yearly increase of Japan's ps has generally been assume about 800,000. In 1918 them estimated census showed an: of about 600,000, while in Ills crease was only 308,794. one-hal- Religious education through drama and pageantry, modeled after the old time mystery, miracle and moral plays, is being urged by clergymen who believe that drama with nameless actors should supplant the pedantic speaking of pieces in Sunday school entertainments. fe OCEAN BED LITTLE In Detroit a school has been established under the direction of Miss Edna White, to train young women for the functions and service of wifehood and motherhood. Special attention is given to the buying of food products. This school was made possible through the bequest of three million dollars by Mrs. Lizzie Merrill Palmer. PARSON HAS CURE FOR DIVORCE. Divorces, like many other things, are blamed on the wrar and if an Indiana minister succeeds with a plan he has inaugurated divorces will have passed out with the war. He presents the bride and bridegroom with a set of rules unbeknown to the other. These rules are to be studied and never shown to husband or wife by the other. To the bride the rules are headed: When you marry him, and are as follows: When you marry him, love him. After you marry him, study him. If he is secretive, trust him. If he is sad, cheer him. When he is talkative, listen to him. When he is quarrelsome, ignore him. If he is jealous, cure him. If he cares naught for pleasure, coax him. If he favors society, accompany him. When he deserves it, kiss him. Let him know how well you understand him. But never let him know that you manage him. To the bridegroom his set of rules are somewhat similar. They are: When you marry her, love her. After you marry her, study her. When she is blue, cheer her. jj know KNC There is a portion of surface, an area twice as the United States, that mar nothing about, according to Littlehales, oceangrapher inti graphic office of the TJnitec the . Gt 1 . D In the North Padf: there are many square miles bottom which no mariners tists sounding line has ever Even in our much-travel- s navy. c there are immense patches floor, larger in some cases island continent of Austral y are totally unexplored, ded In fact, the ct Littlehales. j of the er f more than face is not known. Extensive sounding work 1 configrc to tell and map the the ocean basins so that the f which is puzzling out the vayfc H the earth is formed can hfl Ch definite data with which to j of j; one-hal- is I 1 must only much more work but the soundings must bet closer intervals so that sods slim mountain peaks that ait lx the bed of the ocean will ered. The New York Event DOING HER to W V. SHARE. Jo Several members of rere chatting with a f gj i 'VOIfli: little their hostess. line suppose you are a great our mamma, said one. I "Oh, yes, replied the and so is Ethel, but :t's Vi in M JeT )unt the spoons today after jiQ la ijoctmi Transit I |