CAREERS AND MATRIMONY.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1401, 8 September 1923, Page 8

CAREERS AND MATRIMONY.

There used to be a prejudice against careers for women, because it was supposed that a woman who had brains and used them would never marry. Thinking was said to produce wrinkles in the forehead as suirejy as drinking produces pinkness of the nose. And mothers who were considered intelligent taught their daughters that no nice young man would ever look twice at a girl with wrinkles. Nothing more serious than dimples could exert the necessary charm, writes Ft. B. Ince in the London Evening Standard. The world takes a different view of the matter to-day. Does a career prejudice a girl's chances of finding a suitable husband? The problem stated in that way is too vague. One must be introduced to the girl before coming to a decision. If the pursuit of a career, irrespective of the problem of bread and butter, is likely to add to a girl's happiness, it will automatically increase her chances of marriage, for, although men are supposed always to fall in love with a pretty face they do sometimes keep their weather eye open for a happy one. To live with a person of a happy temperament is better than a tonic —and a much nicer medicine to take. No nice girl enters a profession solely with a view to marriage. On the other hand, she can hardly be blamed if she weighs the pros and cons. The average of marriages is said to be highest in the nursing profession. This may be an additional plum for the girl with a taste for nursing. But if she hasn't the requisite taste it is a plum she will do well to neglect.