The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-08-15
Through IL
WOmanss Eyes
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WHAT WE SHOULD TEACH
FUTURE WIVES
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THE thought OF this column reverts
Il to that intriguing idea. which we
hope will before long have developed
beyond the embryonic state-of
school to train women to be good
wives.
! asked a woman of many years and
much experience and the record, not
Of many marriages but of one emf
nently happy one, to tell me what
she would teach In a school endowed
for the purpose of turning out good
wives, happy women, the wives of
happy men.
~ should begin" she said "by
teaching the girls sense of value
In choosing the right man to make a
choice worthy OF their future efforts.
| should teach them to choose man,
not for the cut OF his coat and the
way he can light a womaRs ciga
rette, but fer the lines of his chin
and the way he treats his mother. |
should urge them to put in the bal
ance, not his steps on the dance floor
but the gait with which he tackles a
job. / should prepare them to OBJ
serve how he looks at a pretty wom-
an, If his smile then is clean, if there
is in 1t something of reverence-or
IL it's the other kind Of look.
1.-THE fundamental having been
dealt with. | should encourage girls
to give some thought to what man
likes in people and things as com
pared with what they like. Also, |
should not count without value the
thing called charm, which we should
not have to describe because they will
feel 1.-THE real all-wool- yard
wide kind that manifests something
from within. Above all, teach them to
Judge not In the light of the moon,
but In the clear glare of all-revealing
day.
"That may take some time de-
pending on how much Of this kind
of judgment a girl is born with
Some will come with no need at all
of this preliminary training. They
are the lucky ones. Others will come
with a sense Of values so distorted
that you will almost despair of
Strengthening them out. But | should
persevere. For in that power of
choosing soundly lies their first
chance OF life's happiness.
I'm q school for training wives we
must of course have something Of the
prosaic requirements; that is those
which to the eye OF romance are
prosaic and inconseqentfal, but which
often prove of great consequence to
the life OF romance The well-equipped
wife, no matter how highly placed,
should be familiar with every duty
that goes into the making and keep
ing of q home-then she can with
safety delegate the tasks, from
creating an atmosphere Of beauty in
the home, to producing a good meal,
to budgeting resources-so that the
Lares and Penates may indeed be
household gods and not demons-all
that would be part OF the routine In
training for wifehood.
"And now for the higher grades, the
subjects upon which most depends,
which extend into post graduate
work, and In which we can always
continue to learn. They are such
subjects as understanding, give and
take, consideration. tact, the small.
ness Of self In the language Of love-
the Joy of giving and where lies hap
piness. An important class would be
that on human nature and Its quirks
and turns, and the real proposition of
little spots Oh large natures. And
last, but not least, IL / had the School
for Making Good Wives and happy
women, should teach my girls some
thing of child psychology-for in no
other way can they so well approach
the psychology Of men--and Hus-
bands"
(0 by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.l