CERTIFIED BRIDE

Evening Star, Issue 20061, 29 December 1928, Page 5

CERTIFIED BRIDE

. BOSTON EXPERIMENT. When Miss Audrey Ware, of Brookline, Mass., marries Mr F. G. Woolf, of the Oliio State University (wrote Walter Whitman, in the ‘ Daily Mail ’ in November), she will be the world’s first certified bride. America, the home of efficiency methods, is the first country in which a special university course is available for women, who desire to fit themselves for marriage. The huge number of divorces in that country every year points, so Americans say, to inefficiency in marriage; the Boston University’s scientific marriage course is an attempt to deal with this problem. ■ Miss' Ware was one of the first to take the course, the idea of which was conceived by Professor J. Lawrence Davis, Dean- of the College for Women at Boston' University. He chose an authority on matters matrimonial, Mrs Elizabeth Macdonald, to fill the post of instructor in matrimony at the university. The course covers - such subjectr>_ sis the choice of a husband* the apportion-.

menfc or income, reasons for marriage failures, ami so forth. Some of the questions set as tests are real life problems which demand considerable psychological knowledge. One, for example, has reference to the attitude which should be adopted by a wife who has been informed bv a reliable friend/that her husband has been seen dining with his pretty secrer tary!