Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-02
COLLEGES TURN ouTsPlNsrERs
Educated Girls Think Longer and Look
 on Marriage SerlouslY

make the extraordinary assertion that the percentage of marriages among women collegians falls far below that of the less highly educated woman, says the New York Mail and Express. For example, take one college-Bryn Mawr-and the classes of ,89 ard '94 for illustration. Class 'S9-Ten years out of school, averaging now 32-S3 years of age; twenty-siX members, eleven married, two studied three years postgraduate to take the degree of Ph. D. Neither of these has mar ried. Class '94-Fiye years out of school, averaging now 27=28 years of age; twenty in class three have mar fied; three studied one year extra to take degree of A. NJ, one stayed three years to take Ph D. Of seventy. eight women who have held felloWships ten have married, or 13 per cent; of 161 graduates thirty-nine have married, or "A per cent; of 225 girls who did not stay to take their degrees thirty eight have married, or IT per cent: of 234 A. B. s, thirty-two married, or IA per cent. Very few women will agree, however, with the conclusions of the Rev. Dr. B. Winchester Donald, made public in a speech delivered at Abbott academy, Andoyer, that the methods of education followed in nearly all the female colleges make pupils unwom- hnly and too erudite" They may make them critical and develop their dis cernment and discretion, two aItrib- utes which women greatly need to get along in the world, whether married or single, but in the sensible words af one undergraduates is found the true solution of the Isoblem. She says:
 Graduates leave college st the age of q or 22, and are less likely to rush into marriage They think longer and look at maternity more seriously
 While l must admit that there is great difference in the percentage of married women who graduate com pared to those who do not, 1 do not think that a girls erudition seares a young man or creates a desire to re- main single, but makes a woman more sensible and restrains her from rush ing unheedingly into wedloek."
 The cashier of thriving bank in a big western town was doing the talk Ing.
 When I began my career in the banking business, he said, "it was in an old established bank in an Ohio city to which my father had been elected president. We didn't live in the town until his election, and moved there when he took charge. After about six months experience I was made assistant receiving teller, and be- tween that and my youth, and the fact that my father was president, I guess was about four sizes too large for the earth. But I got over it, and one day when there was a lull and the re- ceiVing teller had gone across the street to look after a check that he had taken I popped up to the window and took my first lesson. A rough looking old fellow came that thought was farmer from HayvilIe He came straight for me, and said he wanted to deposit some money. 1t wasn't my business to undertake new customer, but l thought I knew it all, and began to talk to him. He said that he wanted to deposit cent that day, but had more. Well, I gave him the ha ha then and there, and told him to run around to the Dime Savings bank and become a depositor or the installment plan. l also said some more funny things, and after had had all the fun there was, he said that while he wish ed to deposit only a cent that day, he would put in two cents next day, and four next, and so on for four weeks. gave him the laugh again, and told him we really couldn't do a small busi- ness like that, and he must be good boy and run along to the penny ante bank around the corner. Then he went away, and I was still laughing when the receiving teller came back.
 "I told him what was making me smile, and he looked at me kind of funny, I thought, and went to figuring on a sheet of paper without further comment. Presently he handed the paper over to me. That old fellow lie said, is millionaire, whose busi- ness we have been after for year. Those figures will show you that what you consider is a penny ante bank business would have amounted to something over $21O,O00 in the four weeks, or 24 banking days during which he wished to deposit his money. He's a crank, but he's got the cash, all the same, and we want him. Just what effect your able funny business has Dad upon him 1 can't say. but suppose