The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-06

WORLD.


vork Journal the question as to
.harber cIeverness in woman is a bar
- -,atrimony, one of the orators of
~ occasion. speaking to the gradual
..- class. declared that if the higher
.sr4a+ion of women was a bar to mat
many the higher education must go.
ca say we all, for whether you re-
ard marriage as a profession or a
rsvard. it is the career in which wo-
IAN finds not only her greatest use
,rlness in the world, but her highest
banDiness as well, but the statement is
t,+oresting as showing the inextin-
BILE popular belief that matrimo-
Nv and intelligence are Incompatible,
az far as women are concerned.
This can be explained on no rational
Grounds. other things being equal,
mo would say that the educated wo-
man would be apt to make more rea-
sonable companion and a better house
teaper and manager than her addle-
natpd sister, and hence a more desir-
able wife.
If a lack of book knowledge predi-
csted a knowledge of domestic affairs
there WOulO Dc SOME sense Ill men
rushng after silly girls who never
rsad anything but Marie Corelli, and
know nothing but the Bargain counter,
4 but il doesn't Some of the worst
housekeepers in the world are women
who are Just as ignorant of cooking as
they are of Sanskrit, and who can no
more add up the butchers bill than
they can solve problem in geometry.
It is not the preponderance of intel
wives that al 10
bottom of the domestic discords of
which we hear so much 1t is not too
much sense but the lack of sense that
leads fool women into the ways that
end in the divorce court.
Still. for all that, there is no use in
denying that, broadly speaking, the
higher education of women Is a bar
to matrimony, and a sensible plan is
to let a girls looks decide whether to
send her to college or not. If she is
ugly and unattractive, move heaven
and earth to give her enough education
to offset her lack of beauty, and at
least provide her with some way of
supporting herself. If she is a dim
pled darling, with rose-leaf skin mat
rimony and not higher mathematics is
her predestined career, and knowledge
does not matter.
In all good truth, and in spite of its
being the time o. day of civilization it
Is, for a woman to be highly educated
IS about the heaviest possible handi-
cap she can carry if she wants to mar
ny. There are several reasons for this.
One is that our young men go to work
instead of to school as general
thing, and that makes a curious condi-
ton of affairs that the college-b bred
woman must face.
The man who can support her can't
entertain her, and the man who can
entertain her can't support her, and
she must choose between the two or
remain an old maid The average bus
mess man, besides, doesn't want to
marry a college girl. He wants jol-
ly girl, whose tastes are in the same
key as his own, and whose grammar is
not a reproach to his own unfettered
speech, and who prefers THE Snow
Girl' and THE Wild Rose" to Wagner
and symphony concerts.
Nor is the college bred girl a red hot
favorite as a wife with the college,
bred man. 1t is almost an axiom that
the cleVerer the man the bigger fool he
wants for a wife, and half the most
Intelligent men you know are married
to women whose intellectual pabulum
never rises above the sterilized baby
d food brand
There are exceptions to all rules. of
course, but as a general thing if IA
thers and mothers want to keep their
daughters hanging on the parent stem
they can come pretty nearly guaran-
teeins the result by giving them a col
!ege education. The reputation of be-
Ing learned IS still a reproach a wo-
man mas to live down, and 1t blights
her matrimonial prospects worse than
a scandal
Ihls is not to decry the higher edu-
Satloh OF women. Far from it. 1t may
De good thing for a pretty girl For
an ugly one it is an absolute neces-
eity. II lessons a girls chances of get
ing ing married but it augments the GER
tdlhty OF being happy if she does. If
she can find man with sense and
courage enough to escort her to the
dltdT She Will make him a better wife
anu truer companion than the girl
whose mind has not been broadened
ana disciplined by study
II We're a girl and heaven had
dressed me with a passable nose and a
6oou complexion and a fluffy pompa-
Jour | would not go to college, be-
Sause should prefer a husband to a
uipiona' but il 1 were a man I would
moose a college bred wife every time |
anat sounds contradictory, but it is
'ne TWO sides to the question.
Many women worry themselves to
uedth It is not the work they do, but |
tne worry that breaks them down, and |
, na@ worry is often about trifles. Speak
"ls Oh worry, a writer says: Does it |
ppui anything to ones working power |
-o'S the worrying man have any |
s,eater reserve of strength than the |
".dn VINO takes a calm and serene view |
, W. ms task? If you have a hard days |
LIN before you, do you find couple of |
us oil worry in the morning a good |
at'pdratlon for the days work? One |
"e our living teachers put it this way: |
,sCIpose now you sit UP all night with |
sour hards folded or twisted, in ex-
tasSsIoh OF keen, indispensable solicit /
uue ana yearning-what does it come
W.. W III me morning? Nothing. Suppose
I"u shculd belabor yourself all day
~ ms what does it come to tomorrow? |
- Wtariress. detection, sadness, and
~ ''l the results of rnisdirected energy
e ~au Irreligicus folly Can you ever
,.nIemper on a single occasion that yol.
made traVer for a coming battle
stronger for 3 coming struggle be-
~. NSe You worried about it beforehand?
a. TASK itself it usually hard enough;
~ NJ. you ever make it easier by antici-
H. OF its difficulties? Is it not true
~ me great tasks of life are per-
~. H,eu by men whose faith is serene;
W.. g. w men who rush upon their duties
81 ~ 1lutter that betrays their own
,'s'ies and fears, but by men who
g. UPON their work with strong and
tbgiL Tread, whose spring of action is
Cod" ~ themselves anu 1a1tn IN
~, May Felt states the case well in
N following versus.