Show obligations OF HEAD OF FAMIL 1 subsidizing worthy sons in law anion among them tle the responsibility tor for a girls it happy ap marriage at the normal time rests today with her father riot not her flan fiance e according to good housekeeping aag magazine a z I 1 n e william mcdermott chicago religious editor discussing frankly the marriage prospects of ills his own daughters in the publication proposes a dowry to help depression men to establish homes rather than delay marriage past the age which nature dictates ile he says ile he Is willing to subsidize his sons in law for the first years of marriage marr lage tor for the sake 0 of f his daughters happiness why he asks should I 1 consider my obligation to my daughters completed when they have finished college any more than when they have finished high school I 1 believe it Is fully as good an investment and almost it if not fully as important to spend two or three thousand dollars or more if necessary in helping my daughters it if they need it to marry happily during their mating time and in assisting their husbands to complete their lifework life work preparation it if they have no other source of support as it Is to see them through their earlier education mr mcdermott cDermott SI says that the hosts of non rion marrying boung men today depress him more than tb the e financial crash ile he believes undergraduates in college are too young to marry but that tile the average graduate student Is better ott off married living in his own home alti i a wife who is interested in his career than in a boarding home or frate fraternity mity bouse if either of my daughters should marry a man in training for a profession or business I 1 would urge her to study along with him to act as ills his secretary and assistant as well as his encourager and to aid him in every way to succeed he continues she would be gleaning much of that which will occupy him for a lifetime and which interests him most they will have a unity or comparability of education which can only enhance the completeness of their marriage and add to their companionship panion ship it if husband and wife grow grov up together in law education business or profession there is a common denominator of inestimable value mr mcdermott SieDe rinolt believes the ideal time for marriage for a woman Is between the lie ages of twenty two and twenty six ile he approves of college educations for women WO and believes they should be able to support themselves and to have careers if they choose but not at the sacrifice of a home and children the present tendency of society he thinks Is to deaden the instinct for home and for children and to cheat young people out of romance and idealism the problem of marrying at the opportune I 1 time e Is no not one for yo youth va struggling today y a aln ilist ln t gr greater el t er youth oil odi oddi I titan ever to get all ahead eat ead bu but for the parents to solve he concludes c ide u 1 Q |