Professor Watson Burgess, of Chicago University, made a statistical study of marriage which lasted seven years and included a cross-examination of over five hundred couples. By the time his investi-
A
gation finished he had decided that he could predict the chance of success of any marriage by an examination of the individuals concerned. mined that there were certain—
happy
Tests for a
marriage
According to Professor Burgess your marriage should be a success if—
1. Your parents have been happy.
2. You have similar family backgrounds.
3. Your future husband has a regular income rather than a large one.
4. You have known one another a long time before you marry.
5. Affection and companionship mean more to you than infatuation and romance.
6. You both desire children.
7. The girl has earned her living before marriage.
8. The girl has not constantly changed her job before marriage.
9. Either or both of you have attended Sunday School after the age of 10.
10. The oldest child marries an oldest child.
11. If both are attached to their own parents.
12. If your future husband is a member of three or more organisations.
An Englishwoman was asked what she thought of the professor and his tests. She wrote this article
After six years
of affection
FTER six years of
happy married life
I can honestly say that Professor Burgess is right in almost all his argu- ments.
Let us start with test which concern parents.
remember-and avoid--mistakes my parents made.
He is very much his mother's I can't see how the happiness of son. I try to be a good daughter-
oneself to a different
position or social circle I should think it would be an intolerable strain
It can be done, and it is done often,
one's parents can affect one's own in-law, but there have been moments I know, but I'm glad I hadn't that married life, nor can I see how love when his slavish devotion to her has difcully,
of parents can help to make it a
success.
tods not happy at home, and my gratitude to my husband for taking me from it was only equalled ὺν my resolve to
threatened our happiness.
But the professor is absolutely right on the importance of similar backgrounds.
In
Marriage is so new and strange itself that if one had to adapt
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NOW for the money problem. Our marriage nearly crashed
in the early years over money.
Not because we'd too much or too Httle, but because we had totally different methods of handling it.
He deter-
that we lost our luggage and missed the train,
The place we held in our respective familles might have had contrary results to what the professor expects. How You Keep
A Romance Alive
Note how in Test 5 the professor brackets "infatuation and romance." What nonsense.
compatible with and companionship,
Is Romance
and alection
can last.
But it must be kept alive by all
I resented his advice as in- terference, and he thought me mean when I was only careful. the little loving courtesles that seem But we did thrash out everything natural in courtship and silly later
at last, and have been happier, and on. cur budgets better balanced, result.
No Quarrelling
About Religion
38 R
It is not silly to walk hand in hand with your husband and Jelsa if you boil want to.
Of course, one learns to choose the right moment.
Every moment is the right moment
ke to do it, I don't.
It is strange that nothing is said for me, but I know my husband would about religion, except the reference rescut a sudden embrace when he was to Sunday school, which doesn't seem reading or writing and though I'd to mean much to me.
Agreement 011 Teligion essential, think, even if it only means agreement not to have anti.
is
We were married in church, not for custom or for show, but because we both sincerely felt it was the right place for such an important event,
And though our views on religion them absolutely, are simple, we share
should head any question naire for courting couples with
"Aro you infatuated?" and if the answer is "Yes," say, "Beware, won't last."
A husband is always a different person from a fiance, so the length of acquaintance beforehand can't make any diference to married happiness.
We had been friends for years,
from
and as the chlidren grow older they but I had to begin learning about can learn from us what we believe, my husband all over again and follow it too if they will.
the minute he became my husband,
I am doubtful whether the fact though, of course, the basic things that girl has earned her own living loved him for were still there. contributes towards happy marriage. I found that once the novelty had worn off, domestic life was very humdrum,
But it is a comfort to know that I can contribute towards the family income should need arise, And I found such training as I had obtalped gave me interests for my leisure moments.
Marriage and children are not all-sufficing, whatever men may say! I do see what is implied in the argument about the girl who has often changed her job.
And he says the same about me. being I hope we shall go on occasionally surprised at each other for years yet.
It shakes one out of oneself, which is a good thing in marriage.
*
CANNOT imagine any couple marrying and not wanting children. But I suppose it happens sometimes.
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Ingredients of cake mixture are in proper pro. portions, the cake likely to ba heavy, alloky, fatty, or, in some other way disqualified from win- nior approval as a perfect cake. And, another word of warning prepare both your materials, your baking tins, and your oven before you set to work.
Dry flour, and slean, dry fruit is needed If a fruit cake is to have its fruity content property distributed. Damp currants and raisins, will, inevitably, sink tu the baking. It is beller, loo, when the fruit has been washed and dried, to flour it lightly be fore adding it to the mixture.
"Never keep your cake wali- ing" in an important rule that must be obeyed If the mixture is lightened with baking power or soda. Bo the tins must be ready buttered before the mixture Is moistened with milk or exgs. And the oven must be hol enough to make sure
the of cakes rising during the firat 15
minutes.
Butter is best far greasing Uns. A better flavour for your cake is obtained by mixing a ploch of salt with the eggs, and this addition makes them froth better.
PREVENTING A
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If you are using dripping beat In a little vinegar to prevent any fatty taste. Rfcher mixtures are obtained by creaming buiter and sugar, and sifting in the four and baking IK
used as lighting medium, dissolve it first in the milk before adding it. A simple rule that helps you to balance the chief Ingredients of cake is the two-three-four rule, In the case of sponge,
the pro- portions are, two of butter, three sugar, and four flour. With a fruit cake, or shortbread, four ounces of flour would be better balanced with three of butter and two of
Suger
1
Sparing the mixing spoon spoils many a cake. First, the fat and sugar must be
warmed
and beaten till soft and creamy, and when the dry ingredients have been sifted or stirred in there must be more beating.
Then comes the turn of the eggs, which must be whisked to a froth, then a little milk if re- quired, and again, more beating and stirring before the mixture goes into the tin.
A rich fruit cake
should be fairly stiff to hold the fruit 11.8 the mixture rises, and it is best to pile it up rather higher at the sides of the tin, as rises most in the middle.
always
II. W. 5.
Art of
Walking
VALKING,
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for most people, is a means of getting fresh air and. exercise at the end of a day's work in office, shop, factory or home and it is not intended to be an endur- ance test.
What we want to know, there- fore, is how to get the most benc- fit out of the hour or less we can
spare for it after a hard day's work. We want to get all the exercise and fresh air possible our dis- in the short time at posal.
It is not sufficiently well known that walking, besides being the most natural exercise, is the best, so long as we walk properly. All the muscles we use most are brought into play by it, and none is over-doveloped, as is too often the case when we follow a course of so-called scientific exercises..
We both wanted a large family. To get the fullest benefit out and already have three. But just of our walk, however, a few sim- Restlessness is a dangerous habit wanting children Isn't enough, one ple rules must be observed.
for a woman to get into, and has must have a natural love for them Clothing should be loosely fit-
broken up many homes.
I know that the kind of dogged determination one learns through sticking to a job even when it seems uncongenial stands one, in good stead later on.
I
for,
love
whatever people say, parental is NOT instinctive.
We decided as far as possible to share the fun and the troubler of the children's early days.
didn't want my husband to be-
come a "treat" or a "threat" to the children: which is the fate of many fathers.
ting, and hats and-heavy over- coats are best left at home. Shoes ought to be comfortable.
On starting the walk the body should be erect, with head up and cheat well out. An exercise which will help you to attain the correct position is to stand up and raise the arms stiff and straight above the head, with the palms of the hands touching Heach other. Then bring the arms-still straight-down until the backs of the hands touch the sides of the thighs.
When the children are there, and KNOW I was lucky in that
my husband "qualified" by the parents' interest and affection for belonging to several organisations, them is mutual, I think there is little even though I missed his company risk of marriage louing Its happiness. when he was busy with them.
that he And I had to realise
couldn't tell me all his wouldn'tOr doings, though I would tell all minel As some one once said, "Incom- patibility in narration" is one of the things that must be put up with in marriagel
I am the oldest of my family, and my, husband of his.
We had both travelled a lot before marriage, taking charge of our familles, and we were proud of our competence.
On our frit holiday, each tried so hard to give in to the other
You and I
I love you because you Are helping me to make Of the lumber of my life Not a tavern
But a temple.
Out of the works Of my every dou Not a reproach But a song.
The cheat will then be inflated and projected to its fullest extent, the abdomen drawn' well in, and the head well up. Start off in thin poaliion with a sharp heel and loo walk, and keep it up as long as you can, breathing deeply and keeping the chest inflated all the time. You will soon experience an unwanted sense of wellbeing and exhilaration, and feel all the cobwebs of the day's
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