The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-08-06

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have caught up in any degree, with tho
previous experience 81 the race. And
TIL we have done chat, to some degree,
we are not mature.
With this po.tponement Of personal
maturity, there Is an even greater post
ponement Of What might be called tech
nical' maturity. The real mastery Of
real technique takes longer and long
er. The young teacher, the young doe
Tor the young engineer, the young arcm-
tect, the young specialist Of every sort,
finds bis period Of preparation steadily
extending before ldm
Nlliat is left undone by science in
keeping US immature is finally accom-
plished BY system.
The world Is getting organized. Ex-
cept in some OF the professions land
often even IN theml we most Of us
start in on our life work at some small
subaivided job in a large organization
Of people. The work Of the organiza-
tion is so systematized as to concentrate
re- possibility and remuneration toward
The top. In time, from job to job, up
in an ascent which grows longer as the
organization grows biggers, We achieve
responsibility Till we do, we discharge
minor duties for minimum pay.
Who Can Get Married First9
This is just as true Of the boy from
middle class" family as it Is the boy
from a working class family. There
follows, however, most important daf-
ference between them. The middle
class boy viii have to work longer
and 90 farther than the working class
hoy in order TO rise to the financial
standards Of his class In THE respect
the working class boy will be man,
ready for marriage, long before his
middle class" fellow worker.
Il Is among middle class boys, thes,
that the period OF infancy is most pro-
longed They get good deal Of school
ing. The stores Of human knowledge
are put in their hands, to some extent
and, to some extent, they catch up with
the experience Of the race. This takes
a longer and longer effort. particularly
If real mastery Of any real technique is
attempted. Then, on going to work,
they find that system. supplementing
science, has perfected such an organiza-
tion OF the world of work that they
must stay quite while in the ranks
Of the orginzation. They viii not soon
be earning what j. regarded among their
friends al a marrying income. In mon
ey, as well as in mind they approach
marriage with increasing hardness.
Their prolonged infancy is financial, a.
well as mental
They say that college girls marry late.
It is true enough. But it isn't properly
stated.
When College Girls Marry.
1t can BE- definitely established BY sta
tistics here considerably omitted that
the age Of marriage Of college girls is
no later than the age Of marriage Of
their non-college sisters and acquain-
tances.
College Is not cause, 1t is symp.
tom.
As the home ceased to provide its
daughters with adequate education and
with adequate employment, what was
their situations In the working class
it was simply this. That they went
into factories and that their sweet.
hearts married them somewhat later
than had previously been the case, b..
cause their share as wives in the cup
port Of the family was increasingly
smaller. But the working class man
soon reaches his maximum earninV "a
pacity in his craft and stays there.
lbs financial infancy i ort, compared
with that Of the middle class" man.
He therefore mafries younger.
In the middle class however, science
md system began to lengthen the mem
-al and financial infancy Of the men
d such an extent that the @old maid
# twenty-three became common. What
we're the girls in the middle class to
10 while the boys we're growing up to
,e men, in mind and in money?--Wfl-
lam Hard in the August EYerYhodv's