The sun., 1904-06-26
CUPID NOT BARRED OUT HERB.
NORMAL COLLEGE GIRLS MARRY
AND MAKE GOOD WIVES.

AND MAKE GOOD WIVES.
ssme Not Allowed to Flnish Their Course
Before They Wed-Education Ne Pre-
ventive Of Matrimony. Or. Hunter says.
Though It Produces Independence.
Last Wednesday night more than 400
Normal College graduates. all a-hutter with
organdie draperies and ribbons. poured
into Carnegie Hall and an hour or 50 later
tripped out again. each with diploma.
Sorue were pretty. others palmer. There
were brunettes and blondes. graceful girls.
awkward girls. girls self conscious and girls
self -poesessed. honor students who had
carried everything before them students who
had barely skinned through. In one respect
they were alike. Each looked trernen-
dously serious when her nanoo was called
and abe got her sheepskin.
One young woman explained when It
was pointed out to her that young men
graduates never look half 90 solemn a.
young women do:
well. young men don't have to worry
about the hang Of their skirts.'
"A fms graduating class. assented DR..
Hunter. president Of the Normal College
for many years.
Then some one took tho chance to put
the question:
'what percentage Of It do you think viii
marry7"
The doctor shook his head.
'Ah, that Is Q question I can't answer.
I do not know what the percentage has
been in any year. There Il no way Of keep
ing track OF such facts after the class
scatters.
Il am pretty sure. though. that the pef-
oentage will not fall any lower than usual
this year Why. three Of the girls were
engaged at the beginning Of their senior
year.
Perhaps you know. DOCTOR continued
the questioner. "that In some quarters
there is firm belief that In the case OF
women college education n a bar to matri-
mony. that the more highly educated
woman is the less she inclines to marry
and the less popular she IL likely to be with
men in search Of WIFE,
Again the doctor shook his head.
"Now. my experience. said he. 'doesnt
prove any such thing. ! have come to
the conclusion that . college education
does not interfere In the least with matri-
mony.
II admit that 1t does, perhaps. mako q
woman more independent, moro particular
in her choice OF q mate. am told that
many Of the graduates from this college
have expressed a wish to teach for . while
and see something Of the world before
getting married
AOn the other hand, ever since I have
been here undergraduates, girls in the
sophomore class even, have como to me
and said they were going to leave. When
l asked why they answered with blush:
~ am going to be married
AT the beginning Of every term hear
OF one and another senior who is engaged
to be married. Cupid comes around regu-
larly.
.The percentage Of teachers who marry
is large, and have noticed that 1t IL the
brightest, the most efficient, who marry
soonest-not tho dullest OF them. The
very qualifications which make teachers
suocessful and popular in their classes
are those which make them attractive to
the other sex.
-Four OF the most accomplished and best
looking Of the Normal College teachers
have committed matrimony In . compara-
lively short space Of time Indeed, Do
valuable were those teachers to the college
that I almost begrudged them to their
husbands, and yet am in favor Of women
marrying.
an these days the educated woman has
a much better chance Of marrying than the
uneducated. think. The time when the
pretty. mild. clingng. ignorant little crea-
ture was preferred by the average man has
gone by.
| woman-for the reason. perhaps. that there
are fewer illiternte men now than there
were formerly, owing to the multiplied
ton of educational instituti ons which
are open at night as well as during the day.
| Il have observed, too, that an unedu Gated
mana man deficient in schooling, mean
| who has risen in the world and become
rich, generally looks around for the best
| educated woman he can find when he wants
/ a wife. He wants q woman he can be
proud Of. At any rate. he is pretty su re
| not to marry a woman as dencient.as him
self in book knowledge.
when it comes to question Of mar
the educated and the uneducated woman
| Is that the former is less apt to accept every