| Show OBLIGATIONS OF HEAD OF FAMILY Subsidizing Worthy Sons Sons-in- Law Among Them The responsibility for a girls girl's happy happy hap hap- py marriage at the normal time rests rest toda today with her father r not her ber fiance nance according to Good Housekeeping Magazine William McDermott Chicago religious re rew editor discussing frankly the marriage prospects of If his own daughters dau In the publication proposes pro poses oses H R dowry to help hell depression depression- struck men to establish homes rather rath rath- er than delay marriage past tho the age ago which nature dictates lie He says las he heIs heIs heis Is willing to subsidize his sons sons-in- law for tor the first years of marriage for tor the sake of his daughters' daughters hap bop pines s. s Why he asks should I consider consid- consid I er my obligation to my daughters completed when they have have finished college any more than when they have finished high school I believe It Is fully tully as good an Investment Investment- and almost If It not fully tully as Important to to spend two or three thousand dollars dollar or more If necessary In helping my ray daughters If they need It to marry happily during their mating time and In la assisting their husbands to complete their work life preparation If they have no other source of support as It Is to see them through their earlier education tion Mr McDermott says that the hosts boats of non marrying young joung men today depress him more than the financial crash lie believes undergraduates In college are too teo young young to marry but that the average graduate graduato student student stu stu- dent Is better oil oft married living In his hll own home with a wife who Is la Interested In his career than In a awarding boarding warding home or fraternity house If It either cither of my daughters should marry a mart man In training for tor a profession profession pro pro- or business I would urge her herto herto herto to study along with him to act as his secretary and assistant as well as his encourager and to aid him himIn himin In every way to succeed he continues con con- She would be hI gleaning much of that which will occupy him for a lifetime and which Interests him most They will have Ilave a unity or of education which can only enhance the completeness of their marriage and add to their com com- If husband and wife grow crow up together In law education business or profession there Is a common denominator of Inestimable value Mr McDermott believes the Ideal time for marriage for a woman Is between the ages of two twenty and twenty six lie Ile approves of college educations for women and believes they should be he able to support themselves themselves them- them selves and to have careers if they choose but not at the sacrifice of a ahome ahome ahome home and children The present tendency of society he be thinks is Isto to deaden the Instinct for home and for tor children and to cheat young people out of romance and Idealism The problem of marrying at the I opportune time Is not one for youth struggling today against greater odds odd than ever to get ahead but for th the parents to solve he concludes |
