WHY CLEVER GIRLS DON'T MARRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 319, 9 January 1909, Page 3

WHY CLEVER GIRLS DON'T MARRY.

Why arc so many clever girls unmarried'; Is it because, the mole man lias liis own conceit, iiml naturally (loos not wish to In' overridden liy his wife? Perhaps he wauls people to consult his opinion, and not appeal to Ills wife for everything. Then, too, a man docs not fancy the possession of a clever wife in his home. Of that abode he must he the chief licad, and for a wife to be continually thrusting l-o- cleverness down his throat would k'vcrv unpleasinj; to the average husband. "

Xlm> light shv of the clever girl as a wife, and afliir all, surely in many cases it is livr own fault. Vou can be tli'vcr without intruding you* views upon other .people; they will find out vour attainments for themselves without your indirectly telling them of your wonderful stores of knowledge. But it is not fair to confuse the would-be bluestocking with the girl who has taken up some special line and tried to perfect herself in that direction only.. Thus, to sum up in a nutshell, it is imlv the aggressively all-round clever jrjri that finds herself outside the pale (if Love's domain. The. clever girl fails utterly to attract men in her honm life, A womanly woman is a man's ideal, and the girl who can lake a servant's place in the kitchen, or look after the little ones in the nurse's absence, appeals far more to a man than the woman who ci.uUl take, the chair at a scientific meeting. So be warned, and if you want to crawii your life with the greatest of all happiness—a man's love—don't let him know that you are over-clever.