The Tupelo journal., 1916-07-21
TALKS ON LOVE
And IAATRIMONY
Miss Helen Keller, Blind and
Dumb, Says All Women
Should Marry.
PICTURES HER IDEAL OF MAN
Must Be Handsome, of Course, but
Doesn't Have to Be Rich or Pos
sess a College Education
Glories in Her Family.


Chicago.-Love is a topic that Miss
Helen Keller avoids in interviews.
Yet this sightless and dumb prodigy,
who has overcome her human handi-
caps-almost-has some unique opin-
ions on this absorbing theme, writes
Harriet Ferrill in the Chicago Trib-
une.
She pounded them out on her fin
gers and the face of her teacher, Mrs.
j. A. Macy, who has been with her
for Twenty-Five years.
An eager face, lips that are ready
to laugh, and a flashing, alert mind
helped along the Interpretation of her
love sentiments.
Il am not telling my love affairs
she spelled into the palm of her teach
er's hand. They are not for publ.
cation" although She admitted many
proposals as a "star"-and possibly
one heart affair. There is said to be
a certain young man who is attentive
at this time.
viii Be a Master Man.
The master of the house in ideal
conditions such as are sensed by Miss
Keller in a new day is not of the com
mon species. He will be a master
man, willing to permit his wife to be
the ~disposer of the household supplies
and the real boss"
Every household should be ruled
by a bi-cameral government-a con-
gress and a senate-such as the Unit
ed States gave the Porto Ricans,' she
said. 1.-THE woman should, of course,
be the house of representatives of the
family. In this government there
will be no tilibustering, l hope, nor
lobbying.
Thus, the man would propose all
vital measures and the woman would
dispose them. She would control the
disposal of supplies principally, as
women did among some of the prim.
tive tribes"
This ideal state of matrimony, how.
ever, Miss Keller does not expect un-
til woman is economically free. So
long as man is the money bags" this
future marriage system win be miss.
ing.
A happy interest flashed in her
sightless eyes when she was request.
ed to describe her ideal man.
"Of course, he will be handsome for
eugenic reasons" she said with a
smile. He doesn't have to be rich.
l am paying my own passage through
the world and am prodd of it.
"And the ideal mar doesn't have to
be possessed Of a college education.
He must be one who thinks straight.
Many men have obtained an educa,
ton by their own efforts, for example,
Mark Twain, n of my ideal men.
For he was broad humanely, tender,
yet strong, and full of humor.
Every marriage should have love
and both man and woman should new.
or lose sight Of the happiness of their
children. The state should pay for
the upkeep of each child; for there is
no greater service to the state than
q woman's gift of a child-a greater
service than the building of a war
ship. Besides, warships are no good
without men. Woman furnishes the
absolutely necessary supply-men.
Her services are fundamental in wal
time or out of war.
All women should marry if they
can get anyone to marry them" Her
teacher laughed her out of her seri-
n Yes they should" she in
sisted. Its essential for the race
and evolution in the world"
One Of the glories which Miss Kel-
Ter delights in is the glory of her
family. A Observation-Disclosures of
hers was one of the first colonial gov.
emo of Virginia-one Of the SPOTS.
woods, and this is a cherished name.
She is a cousin of the southern hero,
Robert e. Lee, and counts the Adam.
ses and the Everetts on her ances-
trail tree.
Her mother, Mrs. Katherine Adams
Keller, is with her, busily darming
stockings and mending shirtwaists.
A sister, Mrs. Mildred Keller Tyson,
lives in Montgomery, Ala, her native
state, and a brother, Phillips Brooks
Keller, is an engineer. Miss Keller
was a student and admirer of Phillips
Brooks when she was nine years old
and she insisted upon giving her
brother that name, her mother said.