The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-10
School For Marriage aThing of the
 Future
By RUTH WATERBURY


 marriage.
 There is no normal girl who does not wish to be married It is the mo- tive underlying all her beauty cul- ture, her mental culture, her clothes sense and her every action.
 cannot understand why matri- mony is not taught young women just as any other science is taught them. Surely the results of mar riage on all sides are such as to ens- phasize the belief that little knowl- edge of the subject in hand might have been most useful.
 Marriage is supposed to represent and certainly ought to represent the highest expression of human love. Yet 1t Is entered into in the most haphazard manner, leaving the force of love totally unguided. The aver age man plans his summer vacation with more caution than he does his marriage career.
 To come down to the practical sido of 1t, the first thing my course will teach will be how to attract men. l shall instruct girls that to attract men a woman must have something of the spiritual behind the physical charm. Physical beauty can attract man. but 1t doesn't hold him.
 I shall teach my pupils to be fem sinine always, not mid-Victorian' given to clinging and faints, but cer- tainly a marked contrast to this sywaggering, mannish attitude that so many girls of today seem to indulge. Men are not attracted to duplicates of themselves.
 shall instruct my girls to wear feminine clothes, chiffons and silks and laces and delicate colors. II they must wear tweeds, then they must in some way give them the fem inine touch. I shall teach my pupils to let their hair be 8 decorative as- set and not sort of wild plumage. They would follow a diet sufficiently strict to keep their eyes and skin clear and, most of all, to let them re- tain their slim figures. Men always notice a woman's feet. Attend to shoes then. be well shod no matter what the expense. Hats should have soft lines and gloves should be spot less. So much for externals.
 Then would come my pet hoppy .nd mission in life-exercise. I shall give much exercise. shall make d careful examination of each pupil to determine just the work she needs to develop her body to its full use- fitness and beauty. The work VIII he more in the nature of Greek danc- ky away with all exercise that involves the use of dumbbells and such appa- ratus-dumb exercise 1t is. My girls will be taught how to walk and how to sit how to enter a room ana now to rise. While they are learning these graces for feminine attractive ness they will experience mental re- birth. In my years of teaching
 ic body building observation hes own me that fine and new rsc1t perception evolves through tta r rsicai stimulus. It is as un- ealfir as it Is amazing.
 q,a will be instruction in the so- ria enitfes-all of those little de- toNq .om the selection of calling cr-f. , the planning of dinner for ya 1lt gre will be a course in home s,a-ifaft. which will include several fl- One thing will be interior ae, rat. on, another cooking, but not ser asual domestic science" Do nestle science" is too prone to teacn ui Is Haw to concoct eggs Benedict sa ros teach than, how to seloct a raef cut of meat. My school VIII 4saeh o<d-fashioned cooking, for deli astesAsas are divorce breeders. sa!ai. each my pupils how to serve -5.re.. themselves and how to have shsir lsrvants serve 1t.
 gf the girl before marriage haA basu #onomically independent ana
 porting, I shall advise by all means every girls going on with ner work afterward. It gives a freedom that is absolutely essential to real mental development.
 After a few years, though I shall encourage my girls to raise families not too small, either. Three or four children are a happy number. How ever, I shall teach birth control that these children may be born tnten- tionally and intelligently.
 Training tho fine strong girl or today for marriage is the hope of c1v- .lization. Through married harmony shines the glory of human race. fhat is my mission, to teach that marriase can he harmonious for the individual and for the world.