The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-02-19
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EDUCATED GIRLS.
Are Men Shy Of !Tarm:-Ta ssar Girls q
Old Msids.

Is the man of the period shy Of the
educated girl of the period? that is fhe
question. Must the popular plea for
the high education OF females encounter
the objection that Il woman who has
read Virgil and the Eneid IN the origin
81, and is post d on the di(icrcntial cal
culus, is therefore. and in direct conse-
G:ence. more unlovely? 1t is stated, on
what looks like authority, that out of
800 graduates of Vassar College. only
lSS have married since that climax of
career. OF course, in I'll case of some,
only year or two has elapsed: but
most OF them graduated wears ago. and
some of them are old maids OF edeep-
est dye. What is the matter9o 1t can
not be that they are so unattractiYe as
to have had no offers. Every Gill has
her rJack-sometimes 4 whoe platoon
of them,-aed every girl can get mar
ried if she will. Does intellectual
training make girls fas:idious, fnical,
:'erhaps-ciiiicult to please, unwilling
To accept the honest hands of and sim
cere hearts of youths less brilliantly
veneered?
1t should not have this tendency; for.
n most OF the happiest marriages in
tae land the bride has nearly all OF the
education. As our industrial and social
machinery is at present managed. the
c1ris have better chance than the bows
10 study; the wives than the husbands.
80, Notwithstanding the fact that the
most profound scholars of our time are
chiefly men who have had long, and
'-eyere professional training. majority
"a? tho 1,.lr, al = a..
ere women. Thousands of men who
make the best of husbands-not only
Kind, amiable and tender, but shrewd,
Intelligent and thoughtful-know moth
iag OF any language but their own, and
never in their lives used '.were' to in
tcrpret the subiunctivc mood. Armies
OF girls have made a II stake in this
matter. unwisciy scorning suitor who
spelled ''separate'' with three e's, or
who said lit is me-" but who might
get be a tender-hearted, sagacious and
eTen mentally profound man, worthy
Of all acceptation.
In fact, we are by no means certain
;.iat educated and professional men
make the best husbands. They are
.ss likely to keep regular hours, and
more Likely 10 ''talA Shop and to
establish the everlasting shops in the
home than are mercantile men, or
.s-okers, or bankers, or clerks, or rail-
:oad managers. They are more likely
- be abstracted. even when their hands
.;re not occupied.
Girls should remember that men of
.:.enius or of orershadowing literary
talent, have seldom made successful
husbands. They almost always lack
domesticity, and love ideas better than !!
;aeir wives. Look at Shakespeare, who
l-ved at the theatre and the club, and |!
yhen he died, gave his vile merely his
second-best bedstead. - Think OF |
>.:ilton. WHO was one of the most domi-
.acering and uncomfortable OF husbands |
I :at ever tOrmented Il oen,lewoman.
.,ink OF Byron, and Dickens, and B,L-
.ar, whose marriages We're each a
Ii deous mockcry. ; hink of Greely and
{. iymOnd, not 10 mention other men |
:, lite as famous, who have had little or
10 home life. Don't hesitate to marry, |
. :rls, because the gentlemen who pay
:..l.t to you do not pronounce rs You
lave been taught TO do. or do not al
:. avs observe the int:exibie rules of
.1lgiish Grammar.
An unhlenis .ed character is more
than a knowledge Of music,
:, Il good nature more desirable than
,ofrect spelling. Better is 4 stammer-
= tongue, where love is, than live
reign languages and hc.:rt with
st mortgage on it held by another
d. i.
Perhaps the sweet graduates of Vas
: haze been Gbeled, and the figures
nave quoted are Incorrect: but even
en-, this little sermon can do no
l. m.