The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-14
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR WIVES.
TEACHER HAS RULES For THE
MANAGEMENT OF HUSBANDS.


Homes-Women's Power TO End Di-
vOrces-Marriage Can BE Made a
state of Harmony" If the Wife
Wishes 1t.
From the New York World.
Mrs. Jesse w. Williams who has been
married and in love with her husband for
six years, and who has enjoyed the wealth
of his undivided love and attention, with
out the usual intervals occurring in mar
ried courtships. declares she has solved
the problem of How 10 be happy though
married" She is willing to give up her
secret to a generation that needs il, if suf-
ficient funds can be collected 10 found
schools for the education of women who
would be wives
Mrs. Williams proposition is not based
upon theory. 1t is a compilation of facts
and figures proved and reproved during
years of experience as wife and mother
and housekeeper.
Mrs. Williams is an earnest cheerful
little woman, who has passed successfully
through those material struggles which
curdle the temperaments of most women.
She has kept house on amounts varying
from s. a week upward, and downward
again to amounts so small she will not
speak of them. for fear of the unbeliever.
Yet she has solved the problem which has
wrecked and wasted so many lives, and
is prepared to impart to her sex the
knowledge she has gained. Mrs. Will
Jams believes that schools for the educa-
ton of housewives would wipe out every
evil that menaces the institution of matri-
mony.
An Education Needed.
1T is the ignorance of women" she de-
clared that makes the home fall short
of what il should be- When men and wo-
men enter the arts or professions they so
through a course of training to fit them
for the new position; yet they enter into
the state of matrimony wholly unquali-
fed, unframed, unfit, and usually unwil-
ling to conform to the new conditions
when they learn what they are. These
things men and women should learn be-
fore marriage. The unmarried period
should be a sort of preparatory school for
the state 10 come.
Yesterday l applied to Mrs. Williams
and received first lesson in the art of
How to be happy though married"
Marriage is not failure" she said,
smiling wisely and sweetly. Nothing
is if we choose to make it otherwise but
the other one to help make it a success.
If these schools be started l. would
appeal first TO my own sex, because their
influence in the home is greatest and
more can be accomplished through themr
And what are the first things we must
learn?"
These are few, said Mrs. Williams,
counting off on her fingers.
Six Facts to 9emember.
First. That men are human beings,
not angels. They are likely to err, and
must be forgiven.
Second. That the dollar is the stan
dard of happiness as well as of finance,
and you must learn to respect it for its
full worth
Third. That the home is the unit which
stands for matrimonial success; it should
be made and regarded as the dearest
place on earth, not the place to go when
all else Is exhausted.
Fourth Good nature and good sense
a combinati ton never found in homes
that are failures.
Fifth. Economy means wealth. not
only in finances, but happiness and con-
tentment.
And, lastly-system is the keynote to
it all
The housewife who knows not system
knows not happiness Her breakfasts are
always late, her soup always cold her
paid her children are physically, mental
ly morally neglected, and her husband Is
always out Through her lack of sys-
TEN he soon acquires the reputation of
a 'neglectful brute reputation which
Justly or unjustly he earns Yet it never
occurs to people that the man who Is al
ways out is just as miserable as those
in his badly managed home, and that he
is being cheated of joy that ought to
be HIS
But if a woman's virtues do not in
clude system?'
1T can be cultivated said Mrs. Will
Jams positively, l know, for it was a hard
struggle for me. The matrimonial schools
would teach system-system in everything
from lovemaking to sewing on buttons"
But systematic love-ma l1ing-would it
be real?"
Very" said Mrs. Williams IT'S the
artess, natural sort of effusion that Gre
ates havoc; it follows ones moods, and
depends good deal on ones digestion
and regulating ones diet in the cause of
successful lovemaking, is a long way
round. Artless lovemakng is capr!cious;
it is impulsive. It's fluctuations are apt
to offend sensitive natures. Women must
utilize system in lovemaking, if they
would be happy. They must smile when
they would weep; be gay when they would
be sad; cheerful when they would be de-
pressed they must be affectlonate and
cordial when they would wish 10 be alone
Effective if Not Honest.
at isn't honest" l said, stoutly.
IT'S very effective. I've tried it, you
see and | know. l don't suggest teach
ing other anything l have NOT proved by
experience When my baby son died I
had a splendid opportunity TO nope and
90 10 pieces Every natural inclination
pointed that way; but | conquered. A
man hates TO see a woman pining about
the house and looking doleful. Weeping
wives were never a lasting success. So
I did my greving when / was alone and
smiled in his presence. Soon my reward
came by being able to smile all the time;
my grief was laid away. Unselhshness
has inevitable compensations.
TOO many young married people have
their own happiness for motive, rather
than the happiness of husband or wife.
There IS no real happiness that is not
wholly unselhsh.'
Don't you think you require ideal peo-
ole to fulhn your requirements for being