Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-28
COLLEGE WOMEN AS WIVES.
What An Unmarried Woman Said to
a Glass of Misses.

The following extracts are from an
address made by Miss Clara Bostwick,
a teacher AT the Elms school in
Springfield, Mass.
What is the college woman's prob
ability of happiness in marriage COM
pared with that of her highly educat-
ed sister? She chooses her husband
later. She Is more developed. she
knows better what she is going to
be; she stands in better chance of
not selecting a life companion whose
tastes and hers will prove helplessly
antagonistic. And this If of especial
Importance in America, where girls
and boys are thrown so freely to-
gether. where they marry when and
whom they wish, and where the par
cnts in many cases apparently have
little else to do with the matter than
to pay the bills and try to shield the
young husband and wife from the
whom a girl would have married
when she entered college is probably
not the mar whom she would marry
when she Is graduated from college.
This may result in the breaking of
some early engagement, but IN en-
gagement that can be broken would
better be broken. The college-bred
woma is also less likely to marry
from ennui. Even II she is unfor-
tunate enough to have no definite
work, after she leaves college she
has source within herself which
cannot only prevent life from becom-
ing a bore, but which can make 1t
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 necessary, 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 re-
spect, because she stands a better
chance of interesting him.
Men don't stay in their homes
unless they find their homes enter
tanning, said a married woman Of
wide experience in the world, in talk
ing about the education of her daugh-
ter, i tell my daughter that If she
is ever to marry she needs to know
something for two reasons; first to
hold her husbands interest and sec
ond. to have within herself
hat will make her happiness, to a
certain extent, independent of him;
in which ease he will be much more
likely to stay in love with her
"The statistics in regard to the
marriage of college women will not
be complete until we have also the
statistics in regard to their divorce.
The statement has been made, wheth-
er truly or not, that as yet no Vas
gar graduate has been divorced. OF
course, all college women are not in
teresting, any more than are all col
lege men; but the four years compan-
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to make one at least less stupid.
Mate the educated woman with tho
educated man and you have a prob
ability that they will continue to in
terest and love each other; that there
will be intellectual companionship be-
tween them, and that each will have
81 filcient respect for the others men
tai ability and moral sanity to make
possible a government of the home
and the children. not by managing
each other, keeping clear Of n pander-
ing to each others foibles and preju-
dices, but by frank and fearless dis
custom as to what Is reasonable and
right This is not the condition Of
affairs in most homes.
"The women of the higher educa-
ton bring TO motherhood, too, q bet
ter preparation than do those Of
smaller opportunities. The reasons
for this are both physical and mental.
They are, as a rule, older, physically
II allure; and the opinion is held by
some physicians that, for the sake of
the physical perfection Of the RAGE,
10 woman should marry until she
is twenty-five. They have a wider
knowledge Of physiological and psy-
Geological laws-or they have the
ability to acquire (which must
bring forth benefcent fruit in the
rearing gf their childen. They know
more profoundly the responsibilities
Of motherhood, and their realization
Of the Importance Of details in the
training Of a child ~disposes them to
lcok upon what might seem drudgery
70 other women as glnrihed. nhncn-