EDUCATED HERSELF FOR MARRIAGE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 42, 17 October 1891, Page 488

EDUCATED HERSELF FOR MARRIAGE.

Among the graduates of the year says an American journal one brave young woman has completed a course frankly taken in preparation for matrimony. Like many girls who make society amusement their chief existence, this young woman did not realize the deficiencies in her education until she had won the friendship and love of one who was her superior in intellectual acquirements. With the realisation of her ignorance came the determination to study for selfimprovement. Entering as a pupil at a well-known school for girls, she took courses in literature, philosophy, and other studies which would enable her to write and speak with accuracy and would teach her the best methods of thought. Sheentered classes of political economy and studied the newspapers under competent direction. Urging her teachers to correct all imperfections in her speech and manner, she made constant effort to attain the standard which might bring her nearer to an equality with her future husband. The struggle was not easy. There were trials of pride in studying with girls of a more youthful age ; there were many moments of mortification from the exposure of her ignorance. Determination to succeed won its usual rewards. The society girl, whose bright mind had been eclipsed by the routine of pleasures, became renowned in the school as one of the most earnest and satisfactory pupils. When she graduates this year into the refined home that has been in preparation for her she will meet her husband upon an equality, and entertain his friends with a feeling of cheerful confidence. She says that the whole world seems more stable since she has been sure that her sentences are grammatical and her pronunciation according to the best authorities. r