MARRIED WOMEN GRADUATES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 466, 26 March 1909, Page 3

MARRIED WOMEN GRADUATES.

Pew women graduates marry, says an English paper. This is at least the case at Manchester University, whero only 64 (11.4 per cent.) of the 560 women degree-winners have abandoned tho state of single-blessed-ness. Further, whether because familiarity breeds contempt or not, only 12 of this number have joined their lot with male graduates of 'Manchester. An American University woman, Miss Mary E. Yi'oolley, president of Mount Holyoko College, recently had Bomothing to say on this subject. "It isn't tho number of marriages, it is the quality of marriages, that matters, both to us and to Juturo generations," said sho at a college luncheon. "College women have a senso ot the values of life. Their attitude toward marriage is not unliko that of tho little girl who was being tutored in ethics. " 'What- is tho best thing and tho hardest thing in the world to do?' asked the teacher, expecting the child to say, 'Tell tho truth.' " 'Getting married.' piped tho pupil." Miss Woolley said sue believed tho professional woman's lovo of homo was deeper and stronger often than that of tho lionprofessional woman. "As to whether women ought to go out in tho world—ought to be economically independent—that is a question to bo decided by tho individual: it depends on temperament, tho individual needs; it is entirely personal. Tho question of what woman's work is was never so broad as it is to-day—or so ill defined." Miss AVoolley adjured the college women to work for tho welfare of "the homeless newsboys, tho women herded in tenements which it is a travesty to call homes," and especially "to abolish sweat-shops, if it takes every drop of bargain-loving blood you have i in vour veins."