The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-05

From Frank Ieslie's Weekly
Is the man Of the period shy OF the
educated girl Of the period ?-that is the
question. Must the popular plea for
high education for females encounter
the objection that woman who has read
Virgil and the AIneid in the original.
and is posted on the differential calcu-
lus, is therefore. and in direct conse-
uuence, more unlovely? 1t is stated. on
what looks like authority, that out of
500 graduates Of Vasssr College, only
1873 have married since that climax OF
career. OF course. in the cases Of some,
only year or two has elapsed; hut most
of them graduated years ago, and some
Of them are old maids Of the deepest
dive. What is the matter? 1t cannot he
that they are 50 unattractive rs to
have had no offers. Every Gill has
her sometimes whole platton OF
them-and every girl can get married
if she will. Does intellectual training
make girls fastidious-finical, perhaps
difficult to please, unwilling to &C.
cept the honest hand and sincere hearts
of ouths 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 a 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 profe ssional training, q majority
of the educated people Of the country
are women. Thousands OF men who
make the hest of husbands-not only
kind, amiable and tender, but shrewd
intelligent and thoughtful-knov
nothing OF any language but their own,
and never in their lives used were" tc
interpret the subjunctive mood. Ar
mics Of girls have made mistake N
this matter, unwisely scorning a suitol
who spelled Separate, with three ees
or who said, ut is mo-" but who NIGH
vet he tender hearted. sagacious ant
even mentally profound man, worthy
of all acceptation. :.
In fact, we are by no means certain
that educated and professional mel
make the best husbands. They ar
less likely to keep regular hours, ant
more likely to "talk-shop," and estab
lish the everlasting shops in the hom
than are mercantile men, or brokers' o
bankers, or clerks, or railroad manag
ers. They are more likely to be oh
: stracted even when their hands are no
occupied.
Girls should remember that men q
. genius or Of overshadowing literar
, talent have seldom made successful
, husbands. They almost always lac
I domesticity. and love ideas bette
, than their wives. Look at Shakes
/. peare, who lived at the theatre and tn
g club, and, when he died, gave his will
9 merely his ''second-best bedstead'
: Think Of Milton, who was one of I'll
: most domineering and uncomfortabl
$ of husbands that ever tormented a gen
n tie woman. Think Of Byron and Di',l
q ems and Bulwer, whose marriages wei
h each hideous mockery. Think I
n Greeley and Raymond, not to mentio
S other men quite as famous, who al
Il still living, who have had little or 4
p home life. DO not hesitate TO MARI
it girls, merely because the gentlems
y who pay suit to you do not pronount
,e as YOU have been taught to do, or
is not always observe the inhexible rul,
m Of English grammar.
re- An unblemished character is mo
IS important than knowledge Of musi