The Washington herald., 1921-03-04

TRAINING A WIFE.
A distinctive college professor
says that men should be trained for
matrffAsny.
Likewise women. .s-
Considering that marriage is the
pre-destined career Of the great ma
jority Of women, and the one that
every mothers daughter of them
intends to embrace at the first good
opportunity, it is passing strange
that only a negligible number of
them ever take the trouble to pre-
part themselves for it. They seem
TO think that the knowledge of how
TO be q good wife comes by nature,
as Dogberry thought a knowledge
OF reading and writing did. 49,.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. To turn out a ,first-class job
of wifehood is to practice one of the
learned professions. 1t requires the
combined talents and skill of the
chef, the fnancier, the psychologist,
the vaudeville artist, and the Jug
gler who can walk on eggs without
breaking them; and this being the
case, no girl who intends to get
married can begin her study of the
fine art of matrimony too young.
For it's a lifelong study. And diff
fcult.
OF course. the training of a girl
for wifehood should begin in the
kitchen. Every normal man has
twice as much stomach as he mas
heart, and he cares only for the inner
things of life after he has been fed
up on the substantial things.
No man Is sentimental when ne
is hungry, nor can love survive a
daily diet of over-done meat and
under-done bread and soggy po-
tatoes. Dyspepsia Is death to iliu-
sion.
The frst time many man dis
covers that the woman he has mar
ried Is not the angel of his dreams
Is when she sets him down to
dinner that would kill an ostrich;
and when he finds out that the home
he has been looking forward to all
his IFS is q first-aid station to the
undertaken. instead of an abode OF
comfort and peace.
II n Just as dishonorable for a
woman to marry a man without
knowing how to cook and run a
house as II Is for . man to marry
a woman without being able to sup
the living, and hers TO make . COM
Portable home; and each is q slack
ers n he or she fails to do his or
her part.
A rffi should be trained for wife,
hood BY being taught how to han
die money. Business girls have not
only learned how to spend money.
but how to earn II, and that Is
why they make such good wives.
The average home-staying girl Is
left by her cruel parents to learn
the use Of money at her husbands
expense. which is pretty rough on
Friend Husband.
There are tens Of thousands of
girls who have never had SO of
their own TO spend, They have had
things charge to papa at the store;
mother has bought them what she
thought they should have; but
they. have never handled actual
money, and haven't the slightest
idea Of how far 81 will 90, or how
TO get the most value outi OF II.
Therefore, when they get married
and take possession of. their hus-
bands pocketboks they go wild.
Money seems to them inexhaustible.
and before they know 1t they are
head over heels in debt.
Every girl should be taught how
to handle her husbands money by
being given an allowance and made
TO live on II. She should be taught
how-to save here, so she can spend
there. and to deny herself little
things that she psy have big ones.
There Is no shorter cut to the di-
vorce court than extravagance. and
no tie bindsa man to woman more
stroasly than thrift. So. IL woman
wants TO be q happy and prosperous
wife she must be good financieE.
To bt,a a successful wife a woman
must know how to handle her hus-
rand with gloves and to run the
.mestic machinery with the least
s.sssible friction. Most women have
Idea that IL they love their hus-
snds enough they can treat them
mean as they please.