The National tribune., 1909-10-21

how to do plain cooking. and the cook
ing rooms of the Hamlin School have
been secured for this purpose. These
young women are to be taught to broil
steak so that It makes your mouth
water Just to smell 1t cooking. make
iight, nice bread. really a first-class
quahty OF bread, stuff and roast n piece
OF pork with sweet potatoes and not
waste the gas. bake beams cooJt yepe-
tables and season them so that tbav
taste good, and other things of this
character. They are not to be taught
to make angei-food cake. that good
for-nothing. tasteless stun which has
never deserved its popularity. nut
stuffed fowls. or any of the thousand
and one indigeStible concoctions so dear
to most girls hearts, but the aim of
their sensible mothers is to fit them
to be poor mems wives, should fate
have that lot In store for them. AS a
general thing your poor young man
makes far and away the best husband
He has not had the time nor money to
acquire the vices of the rich, and IL he
marries a sensible, nice girl, whose sta
tion in life has been above his in the
way of wealth and cultivation, he Is
going to fully appreciate all her efforts
to help him, and will look upon her as
the most wonderful creature the good
Lord ever made The luxurious sur
advantages in the way OF travel, etc.
which her fathers money has given her,
her graceful accomplishments, as well
as her practical gifts, will always sur
round her with an atmosphere of fas-
cination and superiority in his eyes.
and the chances are that such a fellow
will just about kill himself to keep her
affection and make her happy. Many a
congenial and successful marriage is nip
m mo mo
for no other reason except the lack OF
bank account on the part of the young
man. The girls themselves, tho fully
appreciating the sterling qualities of
the impecunious suitor, and hesitating
on the very brink of falling in love, have
cause they felt their own helplessness to
cope with the problems all wives of
poor, struggling young men must face.
More fmpecunious, ambitious young
men and the daughters of the rich
should marry. It is the best way to inn
prove the race and d stribute the wealth
more evenly over the country. And
papa should not give his daughter
enough money when she marries such
one to allow her to go on living the
same life she has led at home. either.
This is very bad, both for her husband
and herself. 1t puts the man in the
humiliating position of seeing his young
WIFE wear clothes he has not paid for
and doing things she could not do if it
depended on him. And to share in lux
uries and eXtravagances made possible
thru her money hurts him very much,
If he is the right kind of fellow. Many
proud young man without money has
steeled his heart against some girl, per-
haps the one selected by Heaven for
him, on this very account. The daugh-
tiers of our wealthy class should be so
brought up that the question of not
a man simply because he was
poor would never be thought Of and q
young fellow just starting out in life,
with nothing but his ambition and good
right arm to depend on for success,
should feel no hesitancy in offering him.
self to a g RI brought up in the midst
of wealth-if that happens to be the girl
he wants-confident that she will make
him just as good a wife (if not better)
as one obliged to face poverty in her
home. But. dear me. when this condi-
ton is reached the millennium will be
upon us.