The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-03
EDUCATED WIVES.
A Teacher Says They Make the
Best Companions.
WOmen of Higher Education Are Bet
ter Equipped for the Duties of
Motherhood and Home
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-
bility 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
knows better what she is going to be;
she stands in better chance of not Sc
lecting a life companion whose tastes
and hers will prove helplessly antagoE-
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 APP
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 engagement, but an en-
gagement that can be broken would
better be broken. The eollege-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 bore, but
which can make it rich and satisfying
Neither will she be likely to sell herself
for the sake of 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 a much better chance of keeping
her husbands love and respect, be-
cause she stands a better chance of in
teresting him.
"'Men don't stay in, their homes un-
less they find their homes entertaining
said a married woman of wide expert
ence in the world, in talking about the
education, of her daughter. I 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 win make her hap.
piness, to a certain extent. independent
of him; in which case he viii be mucl
more likely to stay in love with her
'The statistics IN regard to the mar
riage of college women win not be com
plete until we have also the statistics II
regard to their divorce. The state
ment has been made, whether truly o.
not, that as yet no Vassar gradual
has been divorced OF course, all col
lege women are not interesting, ar,
more than are all college men; but II
four years companionship with 'nobl
thoughts ought to make one at leas
less stupid.
Mate the educated woman with tn
, educated man and you have probabil
ity that they will continue to interes
and love each other; that there will
intellectual companionship betwee
them; and that each will have sullcieu
respect for the others mental abilit
and moral sanity to make possible
government of the home and the eli
dren, not by managing each othe
keeping clear of pandering to eac
: others foibles and preiudices, but b
: frank and fearless discussion as to wht
Q is reasonable and right. This is not tt
:, condition of affairs in most homes.
THE women of the higher educatio
bring to motherhood, too, bett,
preparation than do those of small,
opportunities. The reasons for tn
are both physical and mental. The
are, as a rule, older, physically mature
J. and the opinion is held by some phys
clans that for the sake of the physic
perfection of the race no woman shou
It marry until she is 25. They have
V wider knowledge of physiological al
a psychological laws-or they have Il
ability to acquire it--which must brii
forth beneficent fruit in the rearing
) their children. They know more pr
le foundly the responsibilities of mothe
II hood: and their realization of the il
portance of details in the training Of
child disposes them TO look upon VIII
CT light seem drudgery to other wom
f. as glorifed, educational opportunity
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