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fHE GIRL COED AS A WIFE
MADE MARRI AGES ARE
HAPPY, SAY GRADUATES.
vbmen whe'ye Succeeded In Professions
and HAVE Made POO Housewives Too
Some Typical Experiences-A Help
TO Have Learned the Ways OF Man.

II has been told that the recently ap-
pointed president Of Smith College met
The youpg woman he was 70 marry while
It college and that both he and his wife
are graduates Of the same coeducational
Western university. Subsequent events
ehowed that the young minister made a
Nise choice. although then, eve more
than now, there were common delusions
about tho incapacity Of the feminine coed
foy . hsppy marriage. 1t was considered
3 ticklish business for a man to. yoke up
With a coed girl, while for goods Of the
spme college to pair OF presaged almost
fc4rtain marital disaster. Outside OF COL
Age circles it is moi unusual now to find
persons who have the same opinion based
on the p~ostulate that being educated
with men develops the sterner rather
than the softer traits OF a woman's nature,
and that the girl goods mind is Guilt
waited at the expense Of her heart to a de-
he which Ii likely to make matrimony
ifksome to her,
q Living In New York is a happily mar
lied Cornell coed who is thoroughly
Feminine In speech and name There
u nothing masculine about her. Never
theless before leaving the university she
took a high professional degree, and
slnce their marriage she and her husband,
whom she met at college. practise the
aame profession, each with the entire
approval Of the other. What is more to
TIE point. the wife keeps her beautifully
appointed house in immaculate fashion.
and her social programme Is far more
Interesting and comprehensive than that
OF many Of her friends Of equal e
who are neither goods nor following
any particular calling.
1T will tako perhaps another fifty
years said she. 80 strike an average
concerning questions relating to the
higher education of women and correla-
tive questions OF marriage and mother
hood. Atone time II a woman could read
and writc she was thought TO be edu-
Gated well enough to fll all the duties
NJ wife and mother a~cceptably.
To-day the term higher education
slarrre many persons, to whom 1t suggests
young women who enter o coed univer-
atty and aim to study everything there
q TO study On eeery subject, becoming
. q result animated encyclopaedia quite
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The production of 'Pinafore' or Pa
tience' has come to be too conventional.
ard then they are afraid to try the more
modern musical pieces, such as The
Geishs,' The Runaway Girl and other
London musical pieces which would
bring them into comparison with their
recent predecessors in the roles.
Musical plays have come to be more
popular for general amateur perform
ance than comedies. and so there was
nothing left to do but get hold Of original
plays somewhere. The same thing hap
pened some time ago with the college
clubs. They had to have new piecee.
although at n time the old fashioned
rhymed British burles lues Used to suit
them well enough. They wrote their
pieces themselves and were not compelled
to call in the professional authors and
composers.
There will never be n return to the
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lively that no signs OF wear are allowed
to'appear.
The new plays are more expensive
through the necessity Of making more
new gowns than otherwise might b
necessary. For Trial by jury b. Ms.
Pinafore' or any Of the old standbys
| the costumes are always at hand
'.The ooetutners Sw have 10 stock
ssts OF gypsy or Spanish or Greek Cos
tunes II they are needed the stage
manager told TIE suv reporter, and
they can usually be made useful even 10
TIE case OF thu nov play. The novelties
have become necessary Just - aIl'entSr-
tainments In New York. whether they
ere amateur or professional that want
to appeal to the public must Offer
thing new. 80 In the futlrc We may
some expect Our hsaring Of many ns~
musical plays TO come first from the ana
teurs.'
The views OF the amateur performers
shown kere came from tho most tnnbi-
.tious amateur entertainment OF the past
winter. Tbs Junior League acted That
Girl o Nine by r. A. Barnet and Manuel
Klein. and tho principal characters are
stretched along the line.
It will be seen that they are very similar
to the ordinary characters that appear
in musical farcee on the professional stage.
There are the eccentric old maid, played
30 W ell by Miss Eelen MaGoughln that
size secured an offer to act tho same part
on the professional stage; Rodman Gil
der as tire young lover with the military
coat so long indispensable to the hero
of musical comedy, Cooper Lord a tbs
low comedian, Chalmers Wood a the old
husband and Miss MARY Sturgs as tbs
fascinating widow. Mrs. Lotham.
Then there is the invariable maid. In
the person OF Miss Jeanette KISSED. and
the usual supply Of what On the profes-
slonal stage would be called show girls.
represented here by the Misses Carol
Hartman. Cornelia Landon,. Catherine
Burton, Dorothy Merle Smith. Louise
| Freeman, Edith Brooks and Josephine
Osborne.
TIE dances are Of oourse an important
part Of these performances. One Of ths
interludes In That Girl O. Mine va An
Egyptian dance. In attractive eastern
dress nine of the seasons debutantes
W emit through the mApeuvreS In which
they had been drilled for more than a
month. The dance was characteristic
OF the care devoted TO the performance,
six eeks in all having been occupied In
training the performers. The Misses
Angelina Brown Emily Coe, Florence
Gayley, Leonie Alexandra. Sarah Rob-
bins, Dorothy Toler. Julia LOOMS. Evelyn
witherbee and Flournoy Hopkins were
the young ladies who took part In the
dance.
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK.
Who Should and Who should Not Aspire
to That Role,


There are many women who wear by
black AS smart ear OF a class apart. WHO
are never without a black day gown or
evening gown in their wardrobes, who
&lw avs possess a black hat, who know the
charm Of floating black feathers, wells.
and scarfs. touches OF black velvet or
tulle. the allure Of black fox and Persian
lamb, the quaintness Of black enamel,
jet and black pearls.
Black can be the smartest OF the smart,
the dowdiest Of the dowdy; black can be
startlingly unexpected and the most
obvious wear in the world. (Umbrellas
and galoshes are blaokl) Black can be
w~ickedness incarnate, elusively and OBJ
viouely: black can bs good, unendurably
good but, above all things and beyond
all virtues, black can be ladylike.. !
in black for that reason; they look gentls-
women when they wear Il, and not other
wise. ! am always 4 little bit mistfustful
Of the type that looks Its best when In
sable array says . writer IN tina Queen.
IT suggests al uncomfortable reason for
It's not looking DO nice In anything slss.
ing that black is enormously becoming
to those It becomes. ! do not think black
euits women who. are In the least degree
inclined to lack character Of appearances,
women whom you are apt to overlook
In black, whose colorfne errs on the side
d. oolorlessness. who arc II anything too
thin and lacking In line-whch often may
Be road ourves-to whom nature has been
a tnac parsimon!ous psrhsps, women who
are fading or who have level been any
thing but faded. boiled In soda women,
women with weak tea In their veins,
women who call their sunptuous, danaask
rose, ~carnstion sisters 'dairyrnaids' and
much unkinder things than that, women
who are not Of ths type that Mr.. Hewlett
frankly calls disastrous to mankind.''
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when she was quite small. Brought up
without a boy or a man on the premises
and attending a girls school while growing
up, she knew nothing whatever OF Boys and
cared less. So tirpid was she when boys
were around that they in pity kept away
when the girl started in TO meet every day
young men representing ell sorts OF
dispositions and many grades OF mental
attainment.
Il shall never forget that nrst week.
/ hardly dared raise my eyes when III or
out OF the classrooms. WIS only COM
Portable when got TO the privacy OF the
the boys found this out, with the result
that whenever they got a chance to way
lay and tease me they put themselves out
TO do II. At first il was awful, afterward
j had TO confess to myself It was the best
thing ever happened to me. Little by
little was dragged by my giir! hums
the men goods. and before the end OF tho
first year I could speak to young man or
have him speak to me without wanting
TO cut and run. Meanwhile took to
studying the coed a. an entirely a
species OF animal aud I learned a good
deal about young e
intention OF studying for q profession, IN
approved, believing that I was destined
for single blessedn ess; but never
entered for the law course ! had planned.
The summer previous I got ohur1my with
ayoung man whom az a child had been
afraid Of and who came to his home town
to spend his vacation, and he persuaded
me to change my plans. am not sorry
1t happened like that.
am very happy and I appreciate the
fact that I owe my happiness mostly. to q
c~oeducatlonal university. Three OF. my
n,sssm marT;e T, aets wa 9Ssr I / ~ eo,I mos5 yo ,nn =
mon in their own town-a minister, a law
ysf. and a civil engineer, respectively.
and mono shows h least sign OF being
spoiled for tho duties OF wife and mother
BY her college course. On the contrary
I think their association with young me
be a better wife and mother"
A Cornell coed OF more than usual
good looks who has built vi a large med
ical practice in New York since her
graduation ton years ago and he's a wide
rcauaintance among goods OF many COL
lcsos, as we'll as among women who are
not graduates Of any. college, said that
to the country were the coeducational
universities wiped out, looking at II from
the MARRIAGE point Of view alone and con-
oe2inS even that women who go to a CO.
educational college to study for a
profession may not be EASILY turned
from their purpose by the allure
ments Of matrimony. Women OF this
GLASS who work hard and perhaps have
borrowed some OF the money needed to
take them through college are not likely
to marry so eoon as do students entering
merely for the regular course. The medi-
cal coed referred to has not married yet.
but Ahe IL a good housekceper.
there is no general rule to oover the
question: said Abe. -0f my VT ON
what ANAL circle OF intinsAtes elk have
married aud settled down TO housSksep.
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ing and to brin ging up their children in 0
fashion worthy OF their In Intelligence, and
OF my college class there are about a dozen
/ know Of whom | a say the same thing
These cases alone would seem to prove
that the more highly educated a woman
is the better mother h IL pretty sure
to be. This I firmly believe, although
evory once in q while find an exception
to the rule. There are women who by
no stretch OF the imagination could be
said TO have the making OF a good mother
in them. Going to college or staying out
o. college would no alter the case.
ms Il ksow P 81 ene oSeS S ssa is s bbeha 5eser
attended college she would have married
unhappily. As for the percentage OF CO.
eds, professional women and others who
marry il Ia very large, taking into account
all the coed colleges in the country and
not merely counting Cornell. where mon
are overwhelming ely in the majority. Be-
is always a bond which. cemonted by a
similarity in tastes. often ripens into a
warmer feeling which leads to marringe
under tho happiest conditions. Strange
to say. out West the question OF the rel
alive itn ess OF the girl coed and others
for married life "a seldom raised, probably
for the reason that in the West the coed
college 10 the natural sequence OF the high
school for girls as well a. for boys.
at is only when. q rirl. thinking that
she will get something bisgerand better.
oomee East and enters. say, d college like
Cornell, whore there are 5000 men, that
she finds out hoy many ways there are
Of looking at Ind discussing the coed
and her WAYS.
Personally ] have never yet seen a
newspaper or magazine article which
gave a fair idea Of the girl coed. an all
around idea which did Justice to her In
general whom the marriage question was
dragged in. How stupid II would Do TO
say that all the Intelligent women who
were not educated 10 . o~oeduostional
good wives and mothers. II II quite a.
stupid to put all. goods In one category.
for the reason that IL a big Eastern ool-
lege like Cornell, to give an example.
there are girls who prefer TO get the maxi
mum Of social life and the minimum Of
and enough pocket money 10 meet all
their wishes in the social line, who arc
seen at every social function given by
the students or tho faculty, and before
the end OF the frat term know very many
OF the men students, n an even larger
number who are not equipped with a
fine wardrobe who are In college for the
m maximum OF study they can put In. The
latter may. go through q term without
meeting hah d dozen young men socially,
spending most OF their time In the women's
d~ormitories. Inoonsplouous In dress, men
students do not take any particular pains
to geek these girls out. Naturally the
coed feature influences the type Of
girl more than the other, The former viii
be more apt to become engaged before
leaving college, the latter after leaving
college, and nc m car tell which will
take her marriage the more seriously and
make the better wife. Few criticisms Of
the girl coed make clear what seems
perfectly evident 70 me, that two ooeds
having similar tastes and having had
also plainly 81 opportunities 70 nnd out
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succeed IN bringing all its best qualities
to the surface. 1t is this advantage that
leads the writer's Of such pieces to allow
amateurs TO use them without paying too
high a royalty.
Mr.. Barnet does more than write the
text Of his musical plays. He drills the
amateurs who are to play in them just as
he does the professionals who get these
pieces after they pass over to the regular
stage. He knows how to bring out the
best points Of his librsttos, just "a he
knows how to make the regular actors
who sometimes need nearly as much
drilling as the young people from society
interpret his songs and jokes just as he
intended they should be given.
Manuel Klein also helped the choruses
to learn his music. and the principals were
taught how the duet, the trio or the senti-
mental solo should be sung. The COM
poser of the music for these productions
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old pieces. Once the public. the friendly
public, Of the amateurs has enjoyed
novelties II will not be satisfied with any
revivals Of old plays.
Then the pieces especially written for
the amateurs may be made to suit their
needs exactly. There need be no plot
that compels women to assume mems
dress nor will there be any dramatic
exigenoy requiring any costumes that
may not suit the taste Of the matrons
who organize such affairs. There are
several similar difficulties overcome by
having the play made for the actors.
"There Ia no likelihood that the supply
Of these plays will not be sufficient.
Managers always have pieces Of this kind
that they are willing to submit to this
process Of trying out. Next year will see
nothing but these original plays, however
the number OF amateur benefits may
i~ncrease.'
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unified to take up ordinary duties. Quite
a percentage Of the public have this feel
ing o about goods; not 80 large a
percentage. though, as a dozen years ago.
A highly educated woman, by the way,
is no longer an abnormal exhibit, or
to put it differently it is more normal
these days for a young woman to want a
college education.
Nor is it such a life and death struggle
for poor girls TO get a higher education,
their way being made easier by free schol-
aships and other stepping stones. Then
yea after year, dozens Of coed girls
having made a good showing as wives
and mothers. the public alarm is ab1ting.
although the question whether the higher
her education the higher the type Of mar
riae a woman will represent is still
undecided.
From my own seven years experience
at college l Judge that a girl is hcN~cd
rather thin hinderedin ch%oosinga hts and
by attending a coco institution. even
though she may not pick out a fellow
student as a husband. Her association
with young rem when they are not on
dress parade gives her n chance to learn
things about theig wars. habits and dis
positions which otto wise she would take
years to find out, ard when she does
marry this knowledge .ray help her to
be a more tolerant wifa. She will have
fcwer surprises Of a not always agreeable
nature in store for her.
y think 1t 10 almost proverbial that
fellow goods who marry ne1rlv always
hit It of we'll, provided thay wait until the
end Of their college course, Wien n or
two OF the Western coed colleges were
new l heard that on one or two occasions
nearly one-thard OF the juniors were en-
gagged to be married before the end Of the
Term. Whether the engagements held
during the senior year don't know. but I
doubt II. In the Eastern coed univer-
stiles this happens less often. Tho per-
centage OF seniors at Cornell who left col
lege in my time to marry a classmate was
not large, but ! have known somo .ex-
tremely happy maria ges which resulted
from college associations there.
Living in or near New York are five.
ma rried couples. each couple practising
allied professions, who were fellow stu
dents at Cornell and were attracted by the
similarity Of tastes and Of work: and in
my opinion il there Is any ono woman in
the world who ought TO know how to bring
I UP children II is the coed, the woman OF
presumably high intelligence who had q
chance while at college to study human
nature FROM. several standpoints. II that
experience doesn't teach her some of the
foibles, follies and temptations OF both
sexes, nothing ever will
A happy boxing young matron who has
a strapping '.lsband, two chubby babies
and Q gcod sized uptown fat to keep her
busy confessed to a friend that but for
her experience at a o college she prob
ably would not have married at all. She
did not expect ever 70 marry when she
got her mothers very reluctant permits
sion TO attend the kansas University.
She nss an only child and her ia her diSd
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This new style Of performances sdds TO
the expense Of the production. since the
old farces are to be had for much less thar
the composers and authors demand for
new works. even when the drilling OF the
amateurs in the chorus and h principal
rolee is considered; but the expense OF
these performances 10 lees than it some
times seems.
The costumes are rarely made entirely
new, and even il they are they are rented
from costumers and not bought outright.
Even for new costumes to be worn two or
three times the price is not likely to eI-
coed IS.
1t lie no alw avs possible to prove that
the costumes are absolutely new, since the
manufacturers of these dresses are very
skilful at making the old look new.
Dresses are so constructed in the FIRST
place that they may be adapted to fit any
figure, and they are cared for 80 atten-
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AlEURS IN NOVELTIES
= STAEDBiS OF THE STAGE
CONSIDERED OUT OF DATE.

Pieces Arranged for Charity Per.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or Musical Come
isglsso by, Amateurs--0risina Pteces
EASY 70 Obtain-The Cost Greater.
Nhtkf last winter amateur actors were
hng to- exhibit their talents for the
atraton Of their friends and the profit
some charity in any available place.
~ never thought it necessary to have
nefhinghnew. They were willing to
Ia Cup of Tea "A Regular Fix" or
hey wanted music too Trial by Jury
sThe Doctor of Alcaptara."
Fhcre were the Victorian days Of
batsur theatrioals. Nowadays they
mt novelties. 30 the yellowbnck plays
" used'to buy in Twenty-second street
sn@bonger in demand. The amateurs,
.tlike the professionals. now learn their
rtsfrom the typewritten slips Of the
knhscript Of an Enacted play.
kt ID not necessary that IL should be a
flsicat Comedy like That Girl O. Mine"
Eed BY the Junior League at the Plaza
tt winter. to require absolute novelty.
= 0c-don Bel! wrote the little play In
lich she appeared last winter at Mrs.
snderbilt's. and Frederick Crownin-
teldhs comedy Of the sanitari,im, which
, c&lled .Neura s.henip." vas the first Of
. plays prepared especially for amateur
sJ6hction.
vpne- OF these was nearly 30 elaborate as
,inusical comedy which r. A. Barnet Of
atom and Manuel Klein Of the Hippo
pme prepared for a company OF young
pie OF society. Mr.. Barnet, who is an
lexenced writer Of texts for such pro-
lions. has for some years turned ont
tspHinB musical farces for the Bos:on
nksrs~ Association. and most of them
We s~accessfully stood transfer TO the
ofeestSnal. stage. from 4i492- down to
iert n,oie recent.
Amateur performances OF such pieces
I've hA0ther value to the author than the
mount. OF royalties he may receive. He
able b get a tryout for his piece under
'nditiens that prevent any permanent
image 90 II. lie has an opportunity to
) the faults before IL is submitted to the
lblio or the critics.
Then hc 10 enabled to let managers
DEE ef1 the possibilities much more
QEoukhly than lie could from n mand-
zipt ard q piano. eve IL amateurs do not
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each others defects as we'll as virtues
have the most chances for a happy mar
riage."
The mother Of two children who man.
ages her house and servants in admirable
style, besides helping her husband in his
profession, owes most Of her skill. she
says, to her experience as a coed in g
Western university.
Tho majority Of men," she generously
remarked, have a less fnicky way OF
working than the majority Of women
have. or curse there nre some fplcky
men and some women who are not at all
1nicky. but take it all in all men work
in a larger way than women do, along
broader lines, and seeing this and watch
ing the outcome helps girl students a
good deal
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A PARSIMONIOUS PEER.
Marquis OF Westminster Looked After
the Pennies.

The late Marquis OF Westminster had
queer economies, according Il W. @.
Thorpe in the Still Life OF the Middle
Temple On one occasion he went 10
Grosvenor House and informed the
butler he had brought, his lunch with
him, producing a penny eaveloy. II wa
duly served up on silver plates; he ate hall
and directed the remainder to be kept till
he came again.
He was equally parsimonjous with
envelopes, r~eaddressing TO his own oorre-
|spondents those he himself had received.
There Is q story Of his calling upon a local
olcrgymare and handing him a small
packet which he would Ind useful. The
vicar was puzzled. Was 1t for the schools
or church restoration, or the new reredos,
for money, unless a check 81 bank notes,
At last he opened u; II contained all hia
ovn Waiting oards, kft at Motcomb with
great frsqusosy tor q long per5eA