Arizona republican., 1911-11-24

MARRIAGE TAUGHT BY
 THE BLACK BOARD

To approach the delicate and diff cult art of matrimony by way of q
 blackboard is perhaps the newest of Twentieth century routes The black
 board is at a chronological school. and lit is while instructing the afternoon and evening classes, which include lwomen, that the woman professor of- tenest turns from the general subject IOf how to get a good working knowl- ledge of ones own capabilities, moral,
 mental and physical, to the more inti-
 mate topic of how to choose a life
 partner with harmonizing traits of dis position and character.
 Having women at these classes is relatively new. Usually in the autumn there is a stream of women callers who come of a morning alone or with a child or children or grown up rela tive and pass between rows of skulls and casts and piles of OOks telling all about them to a pleasant rear room for a confidential interview with the chief examiner of skulls, women. anxious to learn if they themselves have a Voca-
 ton and if so what it is: what busi- ness or profession will best suit little l Mary'S or Albert'S remarkable capa- bilities. and five times out of ten wha, sort of temper and temperament they
 had better look for in the man they marry.
 ] This is not new feature at the school. but heretofore few of these women have cared to pursue the sub 1 ject further. After the examination 1 they have walked out again, their in- terest in phrenOlogy entirely satisfied for the time being. In some cases a woman has come back the next day with a photograph or photographs for further consultation. Others have re- turned from time to time to tell the results of following the suggestions made by the professor.
 But until lately few women other than teachers or persons in charge of 1 9 large number of young people have shown much curiosity about the clas- ses. and why more and more women are asking more questions about short course of class work in phrenology and | psychology no one seems able to eX- plain.
 | It is suggested that perhaps word has gone around that the woman pro- lessor declares emphatically that less | and less difference is found each year between the brain and the skull of man and woman, that there need be no | brain rust before so. that after 9 the brain keeps on changing. likewise the skull formation, including the facial characteristics: that if you haven't 1npn fti,,orv had better turn in and do them when you are older. and so on.
 This optimistic note does bring mid de aged women asking not if they can do some sort of work, but what sort of work they can best do 10 make money to keep a husband who is ill or has failed in business: or perhaps the husband has died. leaving his family unprovided for. Then there may be a son in college who needs financial aid which his father can't afford and which his mother wants to give; an income may have been suddenly cut off. leaving the one bereft facing for the frs: time the problem of earning her own living. All these cases an more are represented in the daily pro- cession to the inner room of the school
 Maybe the optimistic note lures wO- men who ordinarily are not of studi- ous bent to the classes. maybe there is scare over the marriage question pre- | ciptated by the modern popularity of divorce At any rate. the professor hey self. who is careful to preserve the sec. i rets of her clients. admits that more and more women have been coming in 1 the last two years both for private jconsultation and to take class lessons. And if,' declared the professor. mot only New York women but women ev- anywhere would give a little time to the study of phrenology and psychol- ogy the divorce lawyers would have to go out of business. It is a hopeful sign that more women are willing to give serious consideration to the choice of a husband
 "Of course in class work there can be no confidential disclosures. These are given in a private consultation. But pupils in some cases learn to recog- nize for themselves traits of charac- ter and of temperament in the men land women they meet.
 This. for instance" pointing to a drawing on the blackboard. ''is a wo- mans skull, and the method of study ing any skull is divided under three main heads. observations. experiments measurements"
 And understanding theSe?"
 Yes: a man or woman who acquires an intelligent knowledge of these points need have no fear of making a grave matrimonial bunder
 Goethe said that every young man thinking of getting married ought to travel a few weeks with the woman in view so as to learn some of her bad points. if she has any. In Goethe's opinion the stress of travel was likely | to develop the worst rather than the best traits of character. Now for most men this advice is not practical. conse | uuently most men and women marry | without having seen anything but the | company anners side of each other.
 questions of temperament and con- geniality have not been considered at | all. As a result the wrong people get | together and are dreadfully disappoint- | ed. Yoked differently the two might |