Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1897-11-08
EDUCATED WIVES.
A Teacher Says They Make the
Best Companions.
Women of Higher Education Are Bet.
ter Equipped for the Duties Of
Motherhood and Hone
Keeping.

The following extracts are from an
address made by Miss Clara Bostwick
a:teacher at the Elms school in Spring
field, Mass:
What is the college woman'S proba-
biiity of happiness in marriage com
pared with that Of her less highly
educated sister? She chooses her hus-
band later. She is more developed; she
Ecows better what she is going to be;
She stands in better chance of not Sc
Letting a life companion whose tastes
and hers will prove helpleSsly antagon-
istic. And this is of especial Importance
in america, where girls and boys are
thrown so freely together; where they
marry when and whom they wish, and
where the parents in many cases ap-
parently have little else to do with the
matter than to pay the bills and try to
shield the young husband and wife
from the consequences of their folly.
The man whom girl would have mar
ried when she entered college is
probably not the man whom she would
marry when she is graduated from col
lege. This may result in the breakinG
OF some early enga cement. but an en-
gagement that can be broken would
better be broken. The college-bred
woman is also less likely to marry
from ennui. Even if she is unfortunate
enough to have no definite work, after
she leaves college, she has resources
within herself which can not only pre-
vent life from becoming a bore, but
which can make it rich and satisfying @.
Neither will she be likely to sell herself
for the sake of a home. She is better
equipped to support herself. if neces-
sary, and she has probably lost many
silly ideas she may have had about the
unladylikeness of honest breadwin-
ming work.
FINALLY, when she has been won, she
stands much better chance of keeping
her husbands love and respect be-
feresting him.
"'Men don't stay in, their homes I'M
less they find their homes entertaining.
said married woman Of wide expert
ence in the world, in talking about the
education of her daughter. 4 tell my
daughter that if she is ever to marry
she needs to know something for two
reasons; first to hold her husbands in
terest; and second, to have within her
self resources that will make her hap
piness, to a certain extent. independent
of him; in which case he will be much
more likely to stay in love with her
''The statistics in regard to the mar
riage of COLLEGE women will not be com
plete until we have also the statistics in
regard to their divorce. The state
ment has been made, whether truly C"
not, that as yet no Vassar graduate
has been divorced. Of course, all col
lege women, are not interesting, an
more than are all college men; but tFc
four years companionship with 'nobl"
thoughts ought to make one at least
less stupid.
"Mate the educated woman with thu
educated man and you have probable
F., ity that they will continue to interest
and love each other; that there will be
intellectual companionship between
tneDi- ana llldt tdtN W III L-.NL Slit-Nl- n l
respect for the others mental ability
and moral sanity to make possible a
government of the home ard the chill
dren, not by managing each other,
keeping clear of a pardering to each
others foihles ard rrpiudicCs. hut by
frank and fearless discussion as to what
is reasonable and right. This IS not the
condition of affairs in most homes.
"The women of the higher education
bring to motherhood. too, better
preparation than do those Of smaller
opportunities. The reasons for this
are both physical and mental. They
are, as a rule older, physically mature;
and the opinion is held. by some phvsi.
clans that, for the sake of the physical
perfection of the race no woman should
marry until she is %. They have 4
wider knowledge of physiological and
psychological laws-or they have the
ability to acquire (which must bring
forth beneficent fruit in the rearing OF
their children. They know more pro
foundly the responsibilities of mother
hood and their realization of the i'm
portance of details in the training of 6
child disposes them to look upon what
might seem drudgery to other women
as glorifed. educational opportunity
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