A CURE FOR DIVORCE.
American girl university graduates ar« (says tho New York correspondent of the* "Daily Express") moro immune from divorce than arc loss learned women, according to tho result of an inquiry mado bv Smith College, one of the leading higher institutions for feminine learning in tho United States. A statement issued by tho Smith faculty declares Hint slat, is'tics show only ono woman university graduate in fifty-seven gels ' into" ';ho ; divorce than arc less learned women, no ' for all American women is ono in twelve Miss Angio Clnipiii, Dean of Wollosley, another famous women's university, coin. . nienting on the result of tho investi'gallon, says:—"University women' usually marry Into in life,- They know their own minds, and they-, find happiness. Tho university course- carries a girl well through the childish period, when more fascination _ might play a large part in her lovo affair. Once this period is over tho girl; gains poise and sense. A great many girls marry when they understand far too little of tho duties of u wifo and mother. They enter into the most serious contract of their lives without due consideration of its importance. By way of contrast, the woman who arrives at the age of twenty-fivo or'more has the course of her life pretty definitely marked out for herself., She knows what she need expect from life. She will sudor little disillusionment if things do uot turn out to bo a paradise on earth."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1324, 30 December 1911, Page 10
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