The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-18

the altar, but after YOU get them there
they all too frequently refuse TO stay
hlt,hed
American women have long wrestlcd
with this difficult question with but in
different success, and so they will he
interested in learning OF the solution
that the versatile and ingenious French
propose to apply TO IT.
In a new high school in Paris called
the Lyceum Jules Ferry. after the
statesmen who did so much Tor edu-
cation in France a part OF the curri.
culum i, devoted to teaching girls some
OF the things they need to know as
women, and among other things how to
catch and keep husband To do this
they are instructed that the best way
to catch husband is to learn to dance
well, and the hest way to keep him is
to learn how 20 cook well
Simple enough, isn't it-so simple the
wonder IS somebody hadn't thought OF
It before Attract a man hy your
charms and graecs before marriage, and
I'LL him up on good food aitcrward, and
there you are You've got him going
and coming, so 10 speak Moreover, its
a deadly combination Tor the sex that is
getting bride shy, Tor what man could
resist the woman who ,honc IN the ball
room, and what man would want 10
llcc from the woman who da2llcd M
her skill in the kitchen
Undoubtedly, tho ideal woman is she
who is mistress OF the tango and the
turkey trot and Quccr Of the gas range
The trouble is that heretoiore--a and
hence the popularity oi Rcno-womcn
did not often combine in the same per
son the abilities OF a pawlova with those
OF Mary Ann and it has onl, too often
been true that she who could two-stcp
uncountcd miles al a dance became
awcary the very minute that It was even
suggested TO her to take a few hours
about a kitchen
Simple aS appears ,hl, French pana-
cea for domestic Ills, :, mark, a dccp
and almost mcanuy insight into the
psychology OF man For II turns a
Searchlight upon that ucxphCahle pc
cullarity OF the masculine character
that makes maa So and dcllhcratek
choose q wife for ono quality and then
spend the balance OF IN, married lie
berating her because She Is what she is
and not something else
! For instance a man picks out a girl
as a wife because her pale. iral beauty
appeals 10 him. and he consider, him
sell a victim because he find, hmscli
married 10 a neutotlc invalid instead ol
a big, husky woman who can do q day,
washing and then go oul and play scy.
cnteen holes OF golf with him inr cxer,
/ else
Or, he selects some red headed and
snappy eyed girl with a tongue like a
rapler, and Wit like a bottle OF TO.
haSco, because her fearless and dafine
conversation entertain, and amuScS him
Then he beats upon hl, breast and be
moanS himself because he find, that nj,
wife has a tcmpcr and isn't meek
mild little creature who doesn't SIT Al
his Zee, and ask him what he think.
she ought to think about ever, subject
Or a man matrics woman btcaus,
she IS living fashion plate that set.
every neck tubberng when she zoe,
down the street, and he feel, him
self ill-uSed and a MARTYR because sh,
doesn't qualify as q wife as mode
OF economy who i, satisfied to wear
year before lasts dtc,, and trim hcr
own hats
| No man would buy a pu,hrart an,
expect to find that II was Vy.cylin
der automobile when hc got It homt
nor would he go into lhe grocer, trad,
and expect to sell diamonds nstea,