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Thursday, July 21, 2005
HOW TO CHOOSE A HUSBAND
by Beatrix FairfaxThe Mansfield News, Thursday, March 29, 1917Nowadays we women folk choose our careers with a great deal of sanity and after much consideration. I wonder if we bring as much consideration to the greatest careers of all--Wifehood and Motherhood.Most of us know that the future of the race depends on us, but we seem to think that knowing accomplishes our whole duty and the practical realization is of no importance whatever.Because we are clever stenographers whose fingers click with expert precision and speed over the keys of typewriters, and whose eyes and minds read back our own notes accurately, do we conclude that those same agile fingers are fit to interpret Chopin or Brahms and the eyes can be guaranteed to work out the intricacies of Liszt and read his notes? Oh, no; we say to ourselves: "Hurray! I'm an expert stenographer. I have found my niche and my career and the things for which I am suited. I shall make the most of it."And having brought intelligence to the selection of our work, we go ahead and make the most of it.But when it comes to choosing the life work of wifehood and motherhood, we are all likely to rush in and marry a pair of broad shoulders topped by a pleasing face and a broad forehead which houses no thought in tune with our own.
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