New-York tribune., 1922-03-19

if you take the thing too seriously
YOU have to quote lot of technical terms
that don't mean much on casual acquaintance
Therefore, it is our aim to strike a happy
medium of semi-colloquialism let the infni-
tives split where they may
The original suggestion comes from Miss
Elsie Hill, feminist leader in Washington
political circles. Miss Hill believes that if the
young people of the country were caught AT
the proper age they could be trained to be ex
pert husbands and wives, just as they are
trained to be doctors, lawyers, librarians and
what not. She defends her scheme with ade-
qunte rhetoric.
Ignorance on the part of girls and boys
she said, 'as 10 the duties and legal intri-
cacies involved in marriage could easily be
avoided if every college in America insti-
ruted special compulsory course in domestic
relations
Every youth and every girl should be in
structed fully in the dangers Of and the
blessings Of marital relationship, just as they
are instructed IN the fine points Of economics
or biology. If this were done young girls
would enter the marital state with different
view Of its realities from those gathered al
picture plays
And-we presume Miss Hill would have
added If her interviewer had not been obliged
TO dash of just at this exciting point-young
n,an we'll would assume the yoke of
nlatrimony with fuller appreciation Of all
It's foibles and fables
Well, we for one are willing to track along
with Miss Elsie Hill, For that matter we are
sven prepared TO go Miss Hill one better. We
are almost on the point Of proposing Domes-
TO Relation College, devoted exclusively to the
arts and science of higher dolnestcity
Viewing marriage from any angle you care
TO take it is at least as important as. say
Latin. Yet no school in the country would
attempt TO teach Lstin in a single compulsory
course. You have to go at the thing gently
year or SO Of amo, arnas, amat; then the
translation Of simple sentences from Latin
into English and back into Latin again; then
year at Cesar and leading finally on I'D to
Cicero, Virgil and Horace 1t takes time.
So any modern college that intends to turn
out graduate husbands and wives who are
going to be credit to the old alma mater in
later life and keep clear of the divorce courts
until death do us part" must seriously con-
slder the problem of laying out a full four
year course in domestic relations And natu-
rally student majoring in domestcity should
not be exposed to much more than smatter-
ing OF other subjects on the curriculum.
Outlining an informal prospectus for the
. domestic relations college has fallen to our
pleasant task. We begin by asking shall it be
a co-educational affair? 1t shall and it shall
not, but for the most part it seems best to
nave separate classes. AS the courses are un-
foided 1t will be seen that it would be inprac-
ocal not 10 discriminate between the sexes in
certain highly important matters.
considering the routine work for group Of
potential Young husbands we believe there
couo DC no bl tier background for their future
responsibilities chan thorough course in Fur.
mace tending 1t may sound trivial but when
you get down to basic principles the happiness
OF the average household depends pretty much