COLLEGE-BRED WIVES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 322, 13 January 1909, Page 4

COLLEGE-BRED WIVES.

A controversy in America on the value of the college-bred woman as wife, is said to have resulted in a brilliant •victory for tlie prisoner at the bar. If what lias been written oil her behalf ig •true, the American young man can -have 110 choice. He must, if lie has any regard for his future happiness, choose a graduate for his wife. Apparently the more.La tin a girl knows the better can she handle a >.al>y. t\w more chemistry she has learned, the more deftly can she wield the frying-pan, and the more she has studied pmlosophy the easier it is for her to turn her husband round her •little linger in a manner conducive to •the happiness aud prosperity of both. •-'She ean't catch a man as soon," says an admirer of the college girl, comparing her to others, "but once caught she holds him faster. Did you ever hear of a divorced college girl?" ller secret of Success in matrimony is her capacity for ''keeping up with her husband." A 'brilliant graduate of liryn -Mawr declined the European Fellowship in Romance 'Language to marry a young business man ia New York. She is now living ■in modest apartments, and doing all her own housework, and doing it remark- , •ably well, though she has "picked it up" (since her marriage. A minister is enthusiastic about the college girl's capacity for new ideas. "The other day 1 •christened the lirst baby, of a married vollege girl, and all during the ceremony it smiled up beautifully into niv 'face. Mow, babies usually cry while they are being christened, and so I congratulated the young mothei; on her nttle one's lamb-like behaviour, and •what do you think she said? 'Why, of vourse he behaved well. His father and «i, with a pail of water, have been practising christening on him for the last 'two days.' The idea of rehearsing a •christening! -Who but a college girl •could think of such a thing?" On the other hand there is an interesting case of feminine mental caprieiousness. A •brilliant girl graduate disgusted her •friends by resigning a Professorship to marry an insignificant little lecturer on geology in an obscure institution. She became absorbed in her babies, and neglected hoth society and her own appearance. The next thing heard of her was that she had put her children into a ■home, and was travelling about the •country delivering lectures on the spirit•ual significance of Renaissance literature.