River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

the objection that woman who has read
Virgil and the Eneid in the original.
and is posted on the differential calcu.
lus, is therefore, and in direct conse-
quenee, more unlovely? 1t is stated, on
what looks like authority, that out OF
500 graduates of Vassar College, only
| 1873 have married since that climax OF
career. OF course, in the cases of some,
| only year or two has elapsed; but most
of them graduated years ago, and some
! of them are old maids of the deepest
| dye What is the matter? 1t cannot be
that they are so unattractive as to
have had no offers. Every Gill has
! her Jack-sometime whole platton of
them and every girl can get married
| if she will. Does intellectual training
make girls fastidious-fnical, perhaps
difficult to please, unwilling to ac-
| cept the honest hand and sincere hearts
Of youths less brilliantly veneered.
1t should not have this tendency; for
in most of the happiest marriages in the
| land the bride has nearly all the educa-
| ton. As our industrial and social ma
| chinery is at present managed, the girls
have better chance than the boys to
/ study; the wives than the husbands.
| So, notwithstanding the fact that the
most profound scholars Of our time are
! chiefly men who have had long and
severe professional training, majority
of the educated people of the country
are women. Thousands of men who
make the best of husbands-not only
| kind, amiable and tender, but shrewd.
intelligent and thoughtful-know
nothing of any language but their own,
and never in their lives used were" to
interpret the subjunctive mood. Ar
mics of girls have made mistake in
| this matter. unwisely scorning a sutton
who spelled Separate, with three ees,
or who said, cit is me-" but who might
yet be tender hearted, sagacious and
even mentally profound man, worthy
| of all acceptation.
In fact, we are by no means certain
that educated and professional mer
make the best nus bands. They are
less likely to keep regular hours, and
more likely to "talkshop, and estab.
lish the everlasting shops in the home
than are mercantile men, or brokers' OF
bankers, or clerks, or railroad manag-
ers. They are more likely to be alb
stracted even when their hands are not
occupied.
Girls should remember that men OF
genius or of overshadowiDg literary
talent have seldom made successful
husbands They almost always lack
domesticity, and love ideas better
than their wives Look at Shakes.
peare, who lived at the theatre and the
club, and, when he died, gave his wife
merely his Second best bedstead. !"
Think of Milton, who was one of the
most domineering and uncomfortable
of husbands that ever tormented gen.
tie woman. Think of Byron and Dick
| ems and Bulwer, whose marriages were
each hideous mockery. Think OF
Greeley and Raymond, not to mention
other men quite as famous, who are
still living, who have had little or nc
home life Do not hesitate to marry,
girls, merely because the gentlemen
who pay suit to you do not pronounce
as you have been taught to do, or dc
not always observe the infexible rules
of English grammar.
An unblemished character is more
important than knowledge of music.
and good nature more desirable than
correct spelling. Better is stammer-
ing tongue where love is than five for
eign languages, and heart with first
mortgage on it by another girl.
Perhaps the sweet graduates of Vas
sar have been hbelled, and the figures
we have quoted are incorrect; but, even
then, this little sermon can do no harm