Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-22

careful study of college alumni records de-
velops the fact that coIlege-bred womer
marry later in lie and bear fewer children,
but that fewer OF these children die, and
they are superior both in physical and men.
tai constitution.
The Knots She Has Tied.
Speaking of her personal experience as
a minister she said: "For long time I was
puzzled to know why all the marriage cere-
monies performed by myself had presaged
ideally happy marriages. They were not
ideal people, but having kept trace of them
all for years, l was continually surprised
that each marriage had proved perfect
mating. Now, however, 1 begin to see that
when a man is broad enough to choose a
woman for this ceremony, or to concede to
his bride the right 10 select woman, he
possesses the broad character which will
make of marriage something higher and
better than a physical relation, or that of
master and housekeeper."
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, the daughter
of Judge B. B. Taylor, of Ohio, and one of
the Worlds Fair female managers, said:
"Men cling to the idea that marriage will
be less beautiful relation when woman is
something more than pet and dependent
clinging child. They mistake also our de-
mand for political equality as desire to iol-
low mans methods and steal his perquisites.
What we women hope most from political
equality is equalization OF pay and the op-
portunities ior individual life that men
enjoy"
Rachel Foster Avery's Experience.
any marriage may be quoted as a result
of suffrage training on both sijes," said
Rachel Foster Avery, Secretary of the Ma
tional Woman's Suffrage Association.
both my husband and myself were born
and reared in anti-slavery and woman's
rights families. His mother is devoted
suffrage worker, while my father was the
first man in the country to pay women
printers salaries equal to men. At the age
OF II l wrote my first woman's rights essay,
and the same year Mr.. Avery, then boy OF
16. wrote similar one in college.
1--WE were introduced years later through
a suffrage convention, that is, by a letter
from a mutual friend in attendance. had
long before this become used to the idea of
old-maidhood. Very liberal home training
had made me fastidious. Being fond Of
children 1 had legally adopted a little
orphan girl and planned my life without
reference to marriage. That introduction,
however, brought a man whose life and pur-
pose were similar to my own, and after
adopting a domestic platform of love,
liberty and equality we served no.
tice upon our friends that the
third party had declared its princi Piles.
The Rev. Anna Shaw, Methodist, post
poned a couple OF suffrage meetings and
came on to Philadelphia to perform the
ceremony. She was assisted by the Rev.
Charles Ames, of Boston, a famous
Unitarian. We have q daughter now aged
nine months. and who already is member
of four suffrage societies of Chicago, of
Cook County. of Illinois and the National
My own happy marriage on the liberal plan
is my answer to this question. And my last
conclusion" said this young and charming
ly gay spirited woman, assures me that an
equal rights marriage can never be fail
ure."
Mrs. Avery wears a watch on the face of
which is her husbands picture, and among
the official papers In her handbag was an
other of the same handsome man. The
mutual alteration of this couple furnishes
many stories among their friends.
MISS GRUNDY, JR.