The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-26
Romance In Bud
As School Days
Near End
I'D Authority ON the problems or
Love and Marriage
BY atrice Fairfax

~ NJ ~ &1AA Ga
II Authority on the problems oT
Love and Marriage
Oh. but these are glorious days
e springtime days Of commence
ment exercises In every part Of
this land 81 ours days when.
Like the swell 81 some sweet.
tune,
Morning rises into noon.
May glIdes onward into Juie?"
Days fsweetness never to be-
forgotten BY those who are leav.1
Ing schol or finishing one chapter
Of their school experience. vet of
JOY not tanmingled with sadness
because ce the inevitable separa.
fiun Uf old comrades and fare.
vel 70 happy associations!
Many 4 romance buds into artic-
nlats expression when students
separate and 50 their way at the
terms close. School attachme nts
may ana often do lead 70 the
most cCn8enial Of al unions
marriage founded on similarity a.
tastes and interests ana the
understanding conrad eahips Of
goods.
am thinking Of i true story Of
college romance and friendship
(which. beginning back Ii the Nine
ties throws its radius over 9,
campus of 1928.
Dick frank and katherine were
good pals throughout their uni
varsity course. Sometimes Dick
Was her escort. sometimes Frank.
Katherine loved both as dear COM
fades.
is there any chance for me.
Katherineg
Frank asked the question while
the two waltzed tc the melting
strains Of d Viennese melody ct
the commencement dance.
Katherine shook her head ana
smiled gently.
DicIxy ~ she replied. and
pointed 70 4 fraternity pin she
was wearing for the first time.
Then Frank understood.
TWO years later, found Dicky
ana Katherine happily married,
living not Tar from the great
eucalyptus trees that over
nlladowed their college campus.
Dicky waa slow lii getting q start
financially. But Katherine had
no regrets.
1t might BE romantic to add
THAT Frank never married. But
that would not be true to human
nature OF the facts Of this par
ticular case. Within two years
he met d young woman who
helped him forget his digap-
pointed love. They were mar
RED And so II happened that
four years after that commence
ment day, there was son and
heir IN the home Of each Of the
friends.
Then Dick died. and katherine
faced the world alone with two
year-oid Junior.
DO not worry about Dick,
Junior was the message that
came to her from Frank, thou
sands Of miles away. 4 win see
him through college"
Frank kept his promise. With
the aid OF scholarships, loans and
gifts from Uncle Frank, Dick, IT.,
finds himself this year. graduating
from the Alma Mater that brought
his father and mother together.
OF course, many girls leave
before they graduate. But each
has her own commencement of
life IN the outside world. Grad
ilally she learns to make an art
Of that life. by adjustment and
establishing inner equilibrium,
with seIf-controI and self-restraint,
. courtesy and consideration Of
others.
a girl really has her choice OF
career nowadays, and career
no bar for d girl with ambition,
health and energy. She chooses
the work that appeals TO her and
makes III tensely interesting. She
may be q laundress or an aviatrix,
may choose business, the arts or
professions. Night classes and
scholarships win help her mount
the ladder.
have just one suggestion for
1 you girls who are looking forward
eagerly and enthusiastically.
DO not forget that one career
which Ii immeasurably greater
than any achievement you may
encompass in art or science. bust
ness or the professions. refer
10 wifehood and motherhood.
II you ignore or refuse the
career OF marriage and mother.
hood you will pay later in heart
broken loneliness and q sense Of
/ incomplete fulfilment Of your
destiny.
Possibly, you can combine two
u careers-many women have. But
\ let matrimony rank first in Inn
portance. Then when your chill
I dren grow up you may be glad to
fill leisure hours with work at
your former career
"A career IL q fine thing for
woman" smiles the wife OF a GER
tain famous. American statesman.
She looks 30 and is q grand.
mother, also the mother Of IA
nous Yale football star. But"
she added, 'I don't think any
other career can ever bring the
happiness and satisfaction than
4fhe old career of home.making,
wifehood and motherhood can
o