The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-10-15
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Old Maids.

Is the man of the period shy Of the
| educated girl of the period?-that is the
| question nust the popuiar plea for
| The hica education of females encounter
| the objection that woman who has
read Virgil and the EE;neid in the origin
| nj; and is posted on the difereDtial cal
cnlus, is therefore. and in direct conse-
quence, more unloveiy? It Is stated, On
What looks like authority, that out Of
$50 graduates of Vassar College, only
iSS have married since tina. climax OF
career. OF course, IN the case CT some,
only year or two has elapsed; but
most of them graduated years ago, and
some OF them are old maids of the deep
est dye. What Is the matter? 1t can
not be that they are SO unaGtractiYe as
to have had no offers. Every Gill has
her Jack-sometime5 = whole platoon
of them,-and every girl can get mar
ried if she will. Does intellectual
training make girls fastidious, fnical,
perilaps-diiIicult to please, unwilling
to accept the honest hands of and sim
cere hearts of youths less brilliantly
yeneered?
1t should rot have this tendency; for
il most of the happiest marriages in
the land the bride hes nearly al OF the
education. As our industrial and social
machinery is at present managed, the
girls have better chance than the boys
10 study; tie wives than the husbands.
So, notwithstanding the fact that the
most profound scholars Of our time are
chiefly men who have had a 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 moth
never in their lives used "were" to in
terpret the subjunctiye mood. Armies
of girls have made a mistake in this
matter. unwiscly scorning suitor who
spelled separate" with three e's, or
who said ait is me-" but who might
yet be tender-hearted, sagacious and
even mentally profound man, worthy
of all acceptation.
In fact, We are by 40 means certain
that educated and professional men
make the best husbands. They are
less likely to keep regular hours, and
moro likely to ''talk shop and to
establish the everlasting shops in the
home than are mercantile men, or
brokers, or bankers, or clerks, or rail-
road managers. They are more likely
to be distracted, even when their hands
are not occupied.
Girls should remember that men of
genius or of overshadowing literary
talent, have seldom made successful
husbands. They almost always lack
domesticity, and love ideas better than
their wives. Look at Shakespeare, who
lived at the theatre and the club, and
when he died. gave his wife merely his
'.second-best bedstead." Think of
Milton, VINO was one of the most domi-
neering and uncomfortable of husbands
that ever tormented a gentiewoman.
Think of Byron, and Dickens, and Bull
wer, whose marriages were each q
hideous mockery. Think Of Greely and
not to mention other men
quite as famous, who have had little or
no home life. Don't hesitate to marry,
girls, because the gentlemen who pay
suit to you do not pronounce as you
have been taught 70 do, OF do not al |
ways observe the intexibie rules of !
English Grammar.
An unblemished character is more
important than . knowledge of music,
and good nature more desirable than |
correct spelling. Better is a stammer-
ing tongue, where love is, than five
foreign languages and heart with a |
first mortgage on it held By another
girl.
Perhaps the sweet graduates of Vas
sar have been ibeled, and the figures
have quoted are incorrect; bat even
I, this little sermon can do no
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