Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1916-07-27
TALKS ON Love
and MATRlMONY
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
eIories in Her Family.

Chicago.-Loye 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 Trb.
une
She pounded them out on her fin.
gers and the face Of her teacher. Mrs.
}. A. Macy who has been. with her
Tor twentynlne years.
An eager face lips that are ready
to laugh and a flashing. alert mind
helped along the Interpretation Of her
love sentiments
! am not telling my love affairs.
she spelled into the palm OF her teach.
ors hand They are not for publ
cation, although she admitted many
/ proposals as a star and possibly
one beart 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 sonsed by Miss
Keller IN new day is not OF the com.
mon species he will be a master
man willing to permit his wife TO be
the disposrf OF the household supplies
and Che real boss"
Every household should be ruled
by a blcameral governmental con.
gress and a senate-such as the Unit.
et States gave the Porto Ricans. she
said. The woman should. OF course,
be the house Of representatives OF the
family In this government there
viii be no hllbusterlng. ! hope. nor
lobbying
Ihss. 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 IN.
I'll woman y economically free. SO
long as man Is the money bags" this
future marriage system will be miss
ing.
A happy Interest flashed In her
sightiess eyes when she was request.
cd 10 describe her ideal man.
of course. he will be handsome for
ougenic reasons she said with a
smile. He doesn't have TO be rich.
| am paying my own passage through
the world and am proud OF n
And the ideal man doesn't have to
be possessed OF college education.
He must be one who thinks straight.
Many men have obtained an educa.
ton by their own efforts. for example.
Mark Twain, one 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.
er 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
a woman's gift Of a chlld-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 war
time or out OF war.
"All women should marry II they
can get anyone TO marry them" Her
teacher laughed her out OF her seri.
BUSINESS. 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 at.greatgrandtothe Of !
hers was one Of the first colonial gov.
errors OF virginia-one Of the SPOTS
woods and this is a cherished name. |
She Is cousin Of the southern hero,
Robert +. Lee, and counts the Adam.
SEES and the Everetts on her ances.
tral tree.
Her mother. Mrs Katherine Adams
Keller is with her, busily darning
stockings and menNng shlrtwaists.
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 student ana almirer Of Phillips
Brooks when she was nire years cid
land she insisted upon giving her
brother that name, her mother said