The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
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Brains Team
Quite We'll
College Women Capable
of Success in Wife's
Role.
BY HELEN WELSHIMER
VA serxlrs star Writer

CO-EDS may pass their college
~ examinations. but they fail
often when 10 comes 70 kitchen
tests. At least. DR.. d. p. Wilson Of
the Los Angeles Institute Of Family
Relations. doesn't believe that col
lege girls rate so high in their
homework
To be correct. DR.. Wilson has an
nounced that women with college
eduCations make the worst wives.
This assertion may all depend on
what one means by a wife. Webster.
who had a fair for words, says that
a wife is a woman who is joined 70
"a man IN wcdlOck. That may be
enough for Webster and DR.. Wilson,
but there are plenty Of men who
ask more. much more.
A college woman the
sociologist would have us believe, Is
too ambitious. too fun Of ideals for
any man 10 get along with Just
which campuses served as a labora-
tory for DR.. Wilson's research would
be an interesting revelation Ger
tainly none that I have known
could qualify.
knowledge Blasts Ideals
The more we know. the fewer
ideals We have. AS knowledge Of
life broadens and deepens we come
to realize that our idols have glass
eyes. paper moons wilt in the rain.
and the sound Of the sea in the
cookie shell that stood on our great
aunt's topknot is due TO the hol-
low construction Of the vessel.
The more We know the more
easily We recognize truth, the more
sanely We face life. the more for
giving and understanding We be-
come IN our relationship With
others. our ideals become more
practical and liveable as We gain IN
knowledge.
The girl 10 whom men have been
the mystery OF life Is the one who
will present the unlucky man who
IS her husband with a set Of ideals
that NJ like somebody else's shoes.
When she discovers that the man
Of her ideals is merely a nice human
being whose legs are too thin she
may have a bad half hour.
Men want sympathy. tolerance.
love, romance, COmradeship. OF
course they desire clean sheets and
shining mirrors, but they want
their wives to present such things
as a silent gift and to use some
thing else as a conversational topic
Any man viii love YOU more if you
wear a rose in your hair, so to speak.
while YOU bake his biscuits.
Mental stimulation. excitement
and appreciation are quite as i'm
pOrtant IN a mans life as the at
tendance to his physical needs.
II a woman becomes bored when
her husband wants to discuss Brit
aims attempt to regain the Su-
premaCy OF the sea or the advan-
tageS of the brain trust. the man
VIII find some one with whom he
can talk.
II a wife can't understand the
book her husband is writing, the
contract for which he is working,
the bridge he is building, somebody
else Will understand. The chances
are quite as likely that it will be
another woman as a man.
Polished silver and blackberry
jelly are quite as important TO a
college woman as to a non-college
woman. Appreciation Of cleanli-
ness and order have nothing TO do
with four years on a campus.
There are plenty of women. too.
without diplomas who have gained
the wider view which college gives
and been happier because of it..
Brains, in brIei. sometimes go to
college. Just as often they don't.
Looking back at the classes which
marched under the elms Of GER
tain middle western campus, dur
ing the years that I knew that
campus. few names are recalled that
have since reSOrted 10 divorce.
College girls, on that campus,
seemed 10 have managed fairly well.
ideals aid all II IS a safe wager
that plenty of the alumni Of other
schools have husbands who find a
fair degree Of comfort with them,
too.
Copyright. 1894. MA Service. Incl