Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-07-03
CURE FOR DIVORCE EVIL

A Chicago dispatch says that while
the divorce mills are grinding, a move
menl has been set on foot to decrease
the number of martial dEsagreeuaents
and by inducing women TO study psy-
chology prevent them from making
mistaken marriages.
Learn to know your husband or the
man whom you intend TO make your
husband" is the motto which the per-
sons who have inaugurated the new
movement wish the young women OF
the country to adopt. They declare
that by studying psychology the young
women who are about to wed will be
able to hold their spouses' affection
and that as result divorces will be-
come fewer.
| The new anti-diyorce movement has
been inargurated by the faculty of Rus
/ kin University, at Glen Ellyn, H., OF
1.-THE woman department, of which Miss
Ada c. Swle-, prominent writer and
tclubwoman his been elected dean.
The woman's department of the uni
IyeFsity is a newly established one, and
the course TO be taught there is IN
l ECAUCQ ~ ylONL4C C&cSCN4dily 1OA tttf Il
ling out new kind Of new woman.
This new woman is to be wife and
q mother The university wants tic
decrease the number of business wo-
men as we'll as the number Of d.
worces. and TO turn ont women who
viii be model wives instead Of intel
lee1uai giants.
I With this object in view special eouF-
- H.
entirely different from those adver-
5ised by ether institutions. Mauhe-
Emstles and foreign and dead languages
Will not be encouraged. Instead the
IYoung women are to be given a thor
Tough training in English grammar and
literature. Then will begin the work
Eof making wives of them.
Al course in @housewify" eimilar il.
many respects to the one taught in
| French arts, the study of the proper
ties of various foods and their scienti-
| fic value, domestic bookkeeping and
cookery are to be taught There will
| be no inducement for the study Of
lstenography or any other subject tha'
will enable the young woman TO en-.
gage in business life.
Art will be taught, but it will not bs
art in the generally understood sense
1t is to be the art in nature and no
that turned out by painters or sculp
tors. Then will come the psychological
studies which are intended to havr
the effect of preventing the divorce
of the women who study them.
Il According to the faculty of the insti
ton most divorces are the result 0
the failure of women to understand
their husbands. They do not know
Z how to cater to their wants or un
derstand their moods. They are OF
of sympathy with them, and the hus
band understand that, seek solace an,
comfort elsewhere.
81 Psychological studies are to do ava,
with these conditions. The young wo
, linen who engage in the study will b.
able to find out what kind of mai
they are marrying. His conduct be
fore marriage will not be criterion
as to his fitness. Instead his intende'
wife will study his disposition and rea,
Ibis mind, so the psychologists claim
1--WE believe that our course in psy
chology if taught universally will ten,
to decrease the number of divorces,
said Superintendent r. I. Morgan o
Ruskin University, yesterday. "It ha
been my theory that the divorces wer
! caused by their husbands. We will
teach them to do so, and there viii
not be 5000 divorces granted ever,
YEAR.