Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-31

There are women who cook we'll with
whom life would be unbearaole. men
with excellent training technically who
refuse to coin their knowledge In la
Dor and with whom an angel couldn't
live and with whom respectable angel
wouldn't try to live. This matrimony
business Is mostly question OF char
acter. not Of technique. Behind all
the knowledge of the schools and work
shops and below all technical training
are the man and woman. AS they
are, so Is their matrimonial success.
1t isn't question of getting rich and
having an automobile for each men,
work out. On the average the best
and most useful families are not raised
in that atmosphere. 1t is essentially
question of character.
For instance: Percy Algernon had
"all the advantages that money and a
good education could give him." He
{.
lea being made into civil engineer
or something just as good. And be it
said that P. AIgernon was bright and
keen and knew his business so far as
the schools could teach 1t. Gwendolyn
.Aline had broken even with A. P. on
advantages. incidentally she had taken
q in, w,
Andy Carnegie's high toned university
for ho"sekeepe-s. Gwendolyn could
cook all right when she took a notion
Six months after they were married
Aigernon had choked Gwendolyn until
her tongue ran out and Gwen6oIyn hal
an affinity who was a horse doctor.
OF course there was divorce Algy is
somewhere drunk and Gwen has been
married five or six tires to different
men who are all living.
Now the fellows used to laugh lit
tie up in Waterloo, let US say, when
Bill, who worked in the laundry and
boarded at the cheap hotel, made eyes st
Kate, who waited on the table They
hadn't any technical training. The fact
is thar Kate didn't know how to cook
and Bill was able to earn a dollar and
a half a day by the hardest kind Of
muscular effort. He was enabled to
save about fifty cents day out Of
that by vigorous mental effort When
they got married Kate had saved out
OF her wage enough TO furnish the
bedding, linen, cutlery and the like and
Bill paid cash for the furniture and
took his ten per cent off. They are
past forty now ard nobody laughs for
they live in one of the best homes in
the city where they reside, and il is a
real home with splendid children grow
ing into good men and women in hap
Ply anG human atmosphere. Bill has
money enough so that he doesn't work
for wages YOU may be sure. He has an
interest in this and that and the other
business or factory. Altogether Bill
and Kate have made meta BILE success
of both matrinony and life. You see
Kate learned TO cook. She kept her
own work and liked it. She and Bill
stayed home of nights. Kate never
hankered for society leadership and
Bill was tired and ready to rest when
the day was over. Incidentally Kate
has never had to have an operation
and Bills digestion Is perfect. Alto
gether they're happy, content and have
fine children.
Now what do you know about that
And when you get to going over Your
observations Of many years down II
the bottom Of all successful matrinon-
ial ventures isn't the character Of the
high contracting parties" the real
thing after ali? If the girls the right
kind she'll learn to cook and if the
man is worth powder to blow him up
he will develop.
Still, my daughter. it seems to me
that the girl who narries a man who
has not looked far enough ahead 10
ground himself in some good business
trade or profe ssion is taking danger
Gus chances: but maybe marriage is
a DANGEROUS business anyway