CARRIAGE QUALITIES.
"What are the qualities you desire most in a wife or husband?" This question was put to a class in evolution and eugenics at the University of Chicago. Both men and women students preferred good health first in the objects of their choice. Then the men wanted good dispositions, beauty, education, maternity, housekeeping, character, dress, ancestry, and financial standing in the order named. Thirty-seven women students who replied gave character second plaee,*with disposition, financial standing, education, paternity, aappearance, dress, and ancestry following. One student said his potential wife wife must have money, be a widow, be good looking. ?. blonde, and. last, but not least, must have an ordinary wellstocked cellar.
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Otaki Mail, 19 April 1922, Page 1
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112CARRIAGE QUALITIES. Otaki Mail, 19 April 1922, Page 1
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