Evening star., 1924-03-14
WILL TEACH COURSE
! IN HAPPY WEDLOCK
Brooklyn "Y'' Director Will Draw
From Own Experience in
rr-t- .
~. instruction.
NOT SERIES OF "D0N'TS"
Gibney Would Ease Path for Pro-
spective Renedicts.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March IA class for
the shattering of illusions-that
might well be the caption of Carol
M. Gibney's ads. if he found it neces-
sary to advertise-as he doesn't-his
course for potential young benedicts,
which starts on April I. at the
Brooklyn Young Mems Christian AS
sociation.
For the chief thing that the youth
full head of the Y's educational de-
partment plans to teach is that
happiness. II you are no more un-
happy than you were before you took
the fatal plunge, you have done
pretty well, thinks Mr.. Gibney. who
sums up his matrimonial philosophy
thus:
THE success of a marriage in its
last analysis is not am l happy?
but am l as happy married as
would be single?'
Some Can't BE Happy.
''One hears so much today about
the wrecks in married life that he
Is prone to forget there are any sue
cessful ventures. But that is because
there are SO many people who are
not happy under any conditions. Even
the divorce rate is no criterion OF
vorcees are as miserable after their
divorce as they were before"
Mr.. Gibney, an intelligent and per-
sonable young man, speaks from the
vantage point Of four years of mar
rfed life, and as the father Of a
husky young son of three. While
admitting that he is no matrimonial
expert, 1t is his idea that every young
man may profit by taking stock of
his equipment before setting forth
nf
sonal ventures-equipmen from the
three-fold viewpoint of the physi-
ology, tho psychology and the eeono-
mics of marriage.
Not Series OF "Don'tAo
"But the lectures are not to be a Sc
rtes of matrimonial 'don'ts,' nor a course
in picking wives" he hastens to explain.
as well as the dangerous curves ahead,
and we Will try to suggest short cuts to
these pleasant places"
All this In a six-week course, be-
All FOOLS day." explained Mr.. Gibney.
but because We must be prepared for
the crop of June weddings
As for the curriculum:
'Physiocgically speaking. Mr.. Gibney
hopes TO suggest an intelligent mean
between the cod blooded eugenist who
thinks only of the betterment Of the
race and the hot-headed emotionalist
whp thinks only of his own pleasure.
Need Of Better Breeding.
aThere must be better breeding among
human beings for the sake Of the race"
he says, but no man Is going to sacri-
fee all his happiness for the sake Of
the next generation. Health, however,
is essential, not only for eugenics, but
for happiness"
Psychologically speaking. Mr.. Gibney
said he did not believe ii was necessary
that college man marry college girl,
and vice versa In proof of this he
cited the case OF himself, only a few
hours of study removed from a PhD.,
and his own very congenial wife, pre-
vented by illness from even finishing
high school. However, he explained,
man and wife must talk the same Ian
guage if they are to be happy-have the
same mental equipment. AS an un-
happy example of uneven mental equip
ment, he mentioned the college bred man
who marries the beautiful butterfly, only
to learn that beauty does not compen-
safe for mental insufficiency.