| Show THE IE COLLEGE AS AN N I ANTIDOTE FOR DIVORCE BY DOROTHY DIX o women's colleges are arc calling at attention attention at- at T THE to tho fact that the higher education of eh girls Is appears appeals to l he be c a specific for Cor domestic miser misery The records records records rec rec- of oC Vassar college show that not a n single graduate of or that Institution has hns ever er figured In the divorce orce courts while the other women's colle colleges es mal make o almost al almost almost al- al most as good lood a showing the number of oC divorces dl among their alumnae being almost al almost almost al- al most negligible This should settle the ancient fallacy that to give a girl n a good education un unfitted unfitted unfitted un- un fitted her to be a wife wire for these statistics statis tics certainly Indicate that if It the college college college col col- lege girl docs does not marry as frequently frequent ng as as her sisters she sho stays married more often otten Many explanations mn may be offered for tor this phenomena The most obvious ob of oC course is that the trained reasoning power of ot the college woman Is better fitted d to solve Rol the tho domestic problem than the undisciplined mind of ot tho the poorly poorly poor poor- ly h educated woman and that there therefore foro she Rhe can more successfully guard against the conditions arising that lead lend to dl- dl A Learned Profession In reality making a home Is 15 a learned Ic profession slon No o woman can bring to this great task too broad and profound a n. knowledge s-e s because it includes every other art and science on earth Sho She will need all that she kno knows knos s of or chemistry in cooking all that sho she can acquire of higher mathematics In trin trying to check tho the multiplication of butcher antI and grocery gro gro- grocery ro- ro cery cerr bills all that she sho l knows of oC languages lan lan- to make herself Intelligible ible to the Hildas and and Francescas s and Dolores that pass through her kitchen She will need all af of her hel knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of hn hygiene lene and germ erm theories in sterilizing her baby's bottles she will need all of oC her law to settle the disputes dis between her children she will need all of her philosophy to keep a A. aserene aserene serene countenance on those days when tho the maid leaves wi with th the clothes in ht the tho washtub and the stove sto wont won't bake balte and tho the grocer doesn't show up and unexpected unexpected company co comes cs to dinner and she will 1 need neel all 11 of or the control self thata that R R. thousand colleges could teach te her to hold her peace in those situations when whon a single word will precipitate a family is row Ow It is not only conc conceivable hable but inevitable Ine inevitable it ble that a woman who has been tau taught ht to think and reason will bo ho the thc captain of ot her soul under conditions that would send another woman Into hr hysterics Also college life liCe gives t es girls 1 the tho education of or association with wHit other i people which is just as valuable as anything to bo be learned from books It teaches women to bo be comradely a a vIrtue virtue vir vIr- r tue which women seldom po possess sess Another reason wh why the tho college e woman is less apt to make the sort of oC marriage that ends in divorce orce than tier her stay homo sister Is because she marries so much later in life Ure The college college college col col- lege woman practically never ne marries under twenty five and b by that time Ume her character is If formed her taste settled settled settled set set- and sho she knows what she sho wants tants and requires s In a a. husband A girl of ot eighteen or twenty will marry a man because ho dances the tho wo-step wo well because ho has a black t I mustache or looks like Jlko a clothing advertisement advertisement ad picture Then hen when sh she h e comes conies to herself when she slip is woman grown she finds that she has made a colossal mistake that there Is not on one e thought or Idea or a aspiration in common common common com com- mon between bet them Inevitably the they quarrel inevitably they come to hato hat each other othel Inevitably the hon bonds s between be be- tween them come to be the fetters of oC prisoners And only too often the tho disillusioned disillusioned disillusioned dis dis- hun heart hungry heart r woman meets up with a man that is her real mate and then there Is lt divorce and antl affinity scandal Better to Wait The late late- marriage has so 50 much better better bet ter chance of ot being a success than the ear early marriage that it Jt would bo be worth wOIth worthwhile worthwhile while sending girls to college just to put them in a 8 place where whore they would be safeguarded until the they reached the age OJe of discretion if Ir the college gave Ja them nothing else save protection Also the thc college girl being ol older er and wiser when she sho marries than the tho ordinary girl goes about ut making a happy happ home more definitely If It she sheets gets ets nothing else from the history she has studied she sho has acquired a few tew pointers on the vagaries of ot men and so she does not trust to luck but to skill in looking after her own husband husband husband hus hus- band and ami keeping him fascinated f Not ot all of ot the tho credit for tor making the 1 college collese wedding a grand rand sweet son song belongs belong's to the woman A lot of or it goes to the husband of oC the college girl Undoubtedly she gets sots a vcr very superior brand for tor it takes one of ot tho the finest to qualify for tor the tho Job The ordinary average man would nomore no nomore nomore more think of or proposing to a n college colles-a I girl girl than he would put his head in a alion's alion's lions lion's mouth Ills His vanity wouldn't suffer suf sut- suffer fer him to Nothing on earth could In Induce Induce induce In- In duce him to marr marry a woman who knew as much 3 as he ho did lI or perhaps more and who would be able to size him up for what he ho W was S. S He would woul know that ho coul couldn't nt swell around her and puff putt out his chest cheRt and pretend to be Sir Ora Oracle lt Jle He lie coul couldn't r- r tr Pl patronize z J her r 1 r ana and pools poon noon hook ner er opinions opinions Iio no e would wo have to listen to them with respect and treat her as an equal Therefore he marries little Fluffy Ruffles Ruffle who sits at his feet before the they are married and hurls flattery flatter at nt him with a shovel sho and tells him how great reat and wise and big and strong stronE has ho ha is s and after the they are married quarrels with him until sho she packs hacks her trunk for Cor Reno The man who deliberately picks outa out a college woman for a n. wife is not a conceited fool tool who marries to to get a woman to minister to his egotism Neither either docs does he hc expect his wife to be a slave or a pla plaything IFe Ile marries to get Jet a a. companion Ho treats his wife as an equal He is minded broad and tolerant and liberal and antI perhaps an any kind of oC a n. woman could live peaceably with the tho sort ort of or a husband that tho the collego college col col- lr lego lege c woman oman gets ets At any rate the showing of the tho women's coIle colleges cs in the matter of diVorce dl- dl 1 Vorce orce orce Is an unanswerable ble argument in favor of oC tho the hl higher her education of or wom- wom I rn fn It makes tho the college girl the pro preferred pro pre risk in matrimony J f |
