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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 230, 26 September 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

A French l£tdy, criticising- i3ie 'higher education of women in America, laments bhe fact that comparatively few of the girl graduates get married. The reason would be β-fcill more interesting than the fact, if one could find it; and one may doubt whether the critic's theory that college life engenders a taste for luxuries which the average husband cannot gratify is a sufficient explanation. High thanking and plain living may dovetail happily in the New WoTld as in the Old; and academic culture is more likely to make a yoimg woman censorious of suitors than of establishments. From the matrimonial standpoint fche misfortune is that a clever woman can seldom tolerwte a stupid man, whereas a clever man is often fascinated by a silly woman. Consequently her higher studie.3 narrow her field of matrimonial choice without proportionately increasing her eligibility. It is certainly a pity that the higher culture should thus be penalised; but it is easier to express regret than to suggest a remedy, and one may doubt whether even a rousing speech from Roosevelt would have any appreciable effect on the ma-trimonial statistics which the French lady journalist ©o properly deplores. ■ .