The Glenwood post., 1917-01-06
USE BRAINS IN
MAKING SELECTION
Grey Matter Can be Used in
Choosing a Husband,
Girls Advised
ALSO MARRY YOUNG

New York, Dec. 3d." Girls should
pick the kind of husbands whose chill
dren will be a credit to them. Try
mixing little brains with all your
sentiment when the next man comes a
courting. Maybe you and your friends
will eventually reduce the number of
marriage licenses if you do, but it will
work out right in the end''
DIR. Eugene Lyman Fisk, medical di-
rector of the Life Extension iustitnte,
didn It exactly put girls courtship OF
scientific basis. He just. suggested
that girls might get a lot more ulti-
mate happiness out of life if they
thought a little more seriously of the
future and less of the way man parts
his hair when deciding the big problem
of getting married. DR.. Fisk .contin-
ued:
IS "It's been the fashion to laugh at
eugenic marriages, but there IS sound
truth back of the new propaganda.
Only girls must learn to use their
brains. They don't want to be TOO
flnlcal about man, either. It's Just
as absurd to believe, that love is pathc.
logical as to be quite sure that it's q
purely sentimental affair. No husband
is ideaE : Anyway, no sane girl would
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"When man asks you to marry
him just keep in the background Of
your mind that sense of responsibility
which makes careless yes a real
crime against society as well as your
self. IA home and family are the
highest ideals of every woman's life.
Think of these things very seriously.
Getting married means much more
these days than the mere acquisition
of well-filled pocketbook or enough
pretty clothes to keep pace with your
particular set
Z" A great many couples keep putting
off getting married simply because of
economic conditions. They want road
ster. So they wait until they can af-
ford a car of their own.
Men used to marry at % and girls
at 81. Men are nearer 30 or 32, o.
even 40, and girls are well into their
twenties or early thirties before they
venture into matrimony.
"You lose so much that way. You
lose the struggles and the fun of meet
ing your difficulties together. You
are very likely to talk of nothing but
the bills and your neighbors by the
time you are married five years, if yol
wait until that mythical day when you
can 'afford to keep house,"
Dr. Fisk spoke of the modern ten
dency toward fast living and the hign
nervous tension which these days is
killing men before they are 43. He
said women> especially needed moro
serenity. "The will-to- -sit-still," he
termed it. "Just learn selfcontrol, !"
DR.. Fisk advised "Learn to moderate
your desires. Stop worrying Conserve
your nervous energy.'
owe are all living under very high
pressure these days. A declining ma.
tional vitality is the price we are pay
ing for all our stepliveliness. Men will
spend day OH the golf links and then
spoil all the good it has done them by
drinking five or six highballs befora
they leave the clubhouse. Lack Of
poise or moderation is our greatest
difficulty.
"Women at 40 these days begin to
lose their trim figures. They get fat,
and grow discouraged. Another caso
Of not enough exercise. and too much
food. We pepper our days with inces.
SAINT meals. We eat for pleasure, not
necessity. And then we wonder why
we don't live as long as our grand
fathers did. '@
can this talk of physical prepared
ness is part Of the problem that every
girl must face. She must first Of all
be physically fit herself. Her business
success depends on that. Above all,
she must remember in the romance that
comes with the falling in love, that
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