Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-24
EDUCATION AND MATRIMONY

Why ~ O-4: HI! PERCENT VI Soi!SSt
girls marry?
Is this an indictment OF edlcation.
Is the highb-ow repellent to the av
erage man?
A New York man writing to The
Evening Post Of tat city states the
case in this manner:
a prominent feminist says: WON
an is the cripple man has made her
q statement open to question. Won
an is Gripping man, Deiiah shearing
u manhood of its locks, leaving him
sborn Of ideals, leaving to him com
mercialisn, the one aim to bring to
her the things which modern stand
ards Of material living make neces-
sary.
Woman by her desire for luxury,
BY unprecedented STANDARDS OF mate
rial living, has made it imperative OF
the mar who would make good in
any vocation to intensely specialize.
If he would make good ne must con-
centrate on the specially that gives
him a commercial value as a cog in
our oyer-co-umercialized social ma
chine. And SO we find our 'educated'
young man densely ignorant abou:
everything but the technical side OF
his profession, be it business, engi-
neering, law, o. medicine. .Gya
-~ a. 2@7 B*%s So . e-@ -,,-
"He specializes from the time he
enters college. He has ceased entire
ly to go to tle university for the pur-
pose of acquiring culture, that grace
Of mind which is the art Of living. He
acquires instead Of the art of living
merely a certain practical forcefui-
ness, a facility for securing the means
Of livelihood for himself, wife, and
children. In acquiring this means of
livelihood he achieves intellectual
%sQualor, psychological bankruptcy,
and goes into moral receiFership. IL
gives us a large class of "prominent
citizens" who are colorless and dull,
outside Of their vocation, as we'll as
INSCRIPTIONS in business ethics.
4 know a Harvard graduate, MEM
Der o. the Hasty Pudding Club, who
asked: All landscapes are water COL
ors, are they not" l know a Prince
ton graduate who did not know who
wrote The Tempest" And I discov-
cred On one occasion that a Yale grad
uate thought / was praising a painter
when / spoke Of his mork as meretric-
ious.
Not SO with the women. They ac-
guire at college what men formerly
went there for primarily, a broad cul-
ture. A ridiculous man cannot win
the heart of a cultured woman, and
the man who has Fever heard of Ben
Tenuto Cellini, who thinks Ell Greco is
a town, to whom The Gentle Art of
Making Enemies is a new title WAC
prefers a photograph to a Monet, who
would rather listen to ragtime than to
Beethoven, who would rather see Chin
Chin than AS You Like It. who reads
nothing but the papers, 20 whom po-
etry is deadly; in short, one whose
soul has been stunted; such a n
becomes a joke in the eyes Of the wo-
man whose psychological nature has
been developed. And such women
do not marry jokes.
1.-THE collegeIbred woman is not in
tcrested in talk about stocks or the
price Of cotton; sac Goes not much
care for chatter about golf and tennis
and who is in the lead for the pennant.
And so the only common ground she
can meet on with the specialized mar
is scandal or bridge.
A intellectual man can stand an
uncultured mate better than the in
tellectual woman the one-sided hus-
band.
"TAe man and the woman who have
not acquired the art of living, that is
culture, are not capable OF the art of
loving. One can hardly call the feel
ing Of the Indian for his squaw love.