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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-

gation finished he had decided that ho could predict the chance of success of any marriage by an He deter- examination of the individuals concerned. mined that there were certain-

Tests for a happy marriage

According to Professor Burgess your marriage should be a success if—

A

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.

6. 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 a 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

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.

of affection

tuggage and

oneself to a different position or remember-and avold-mistakes my parents made.

social circle I should think it would much his He is very

mother's be an intolerable strain.

families might have i try to be a good daughter- son. I can't see how the happiness of one's parents can affect one's own in-nw, 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 dificulty,

of parents can help to make it a

success.

was

not happy at home, and my gratitude to my husband, for taking me from it was only equalled ον

resolve to

threatened our happiness.

But the professor is absolutely right on the importance of similar backgrounds.

so new and strange Marriage Is in 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 little, but beenuse we had totally different methods of handling it.

I resented his advice as in- terference, and he thought me mean when I was only careful.

tur that we lost missed the train. The place we held in our respective lad contrary results to what the professor expecls. How You Keep

A Romance Alive

Note how in Test 5 the professor brackets "infatuation and romance." What nonsense.

with

Romance is compatible affection and companionship, and con last.

But it must be kept alive by all the little loving courtesies that seem

But we did thrush out everything natural in courtship and silly later

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at last, and have been happler, and on. our budgets better balanced, result,

No Quarrelling

About Religion

It is strange that nothing is said about religion, except the reference to Sunday school, which doesn't seem to mean much to me.

religion от Agreement esseralal, I think, even if it only means agreement not to have

any.

It is not silty to walk hand in

hard with your husband and

kiss if you both want to,

Of course, one learns to choose the right moment.

Every moment is the right moment for me, but I know my husband would resent a sudden embrace when he was reading or writing and though I'd like to do it, I don't.

question- I should head

courting couples with for "Arc you infatuated?" and if the answer is "Yes," say, "Beware, It won't last."

La

naire

We were married in church, not for custom or for show, but because we both sincerely fell it was the right place for such an important event.

And though our views on religion are simple, we share them absolutely, and as the children grow older they can learn from us what we belleve, and follow it too if they will.

I am doubtful whether the fact that a girl has earned her own living contributes towarda happy marclage. I found that once the novelty had worn off, domestle 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 1 had obtained gave me laterests for my leisure moments.

are not

Marriage and children all-sufficing, whatever men may say! I do see what is implied in the argument about the girl who has often changed her job.

Restlessness is a dangerous habit for a woman to get into, and has

broken up many homes.

know that the kind of dopged determination one learns through sticking to a job even when it seems uncongenial stands one in good stead later on

any

A husband is always a different person from a fiance, so the length of acquaintance beforehand can't make any difference to married happiness.

again

Cake-Making

Hints

or measure"

is a

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W warning that even the experienced cook cannot afford to dieregard, and for the culinary novice Its due observation most important,

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Unless the ingredients of cake mixture are in proper pro- portions, cake is likely to be heavy, sticky, fatty, or, in some other way disqualified from win ning approval as a perfect cake. And, another word of warning— prepare bolli your materials, your baking tins, and your oven before you set to work.

Dry flour, and clean, dry fruit is needed lf a frult cake is to have ita fruity content properly distributed. Damp currants and raising will inevitably sink the baking. It is better, Loo, when the fruit has been washed and dried, to flour it lightly be-

ore adding it to the mixture.

"Never keep your cake walt-

is an important rule that must be obeyed if the mixture is lightened with baking power the soda. So the tins must be ready buttered before the misture Is moistened with milk OF CHEN. And the oven must be hot enough to mako sure of the cakes rising during the first 15 minutes.

Butter is best for greasing tins. A better flavour for your cake is obtained by mixing a pinch of salt with the egge, and this addition makes them froth better.

PREVENTING A

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If you are using dripping beat

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baking

L used as A lighting medium, dissolve it first in the milk before adding t A simplo rule that helps You

balance the chief ingredients of

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cake is the two-three-four rule, In the case of a a sponge, the pro- portions are, two of butter, three

sugar, and four Boar. With frult cake, or shortbread. tour ounces of flour would be better balanced with three of butter and two of sugar.

the

Sparing the mixing -spoon apolls many a cake. First, 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 EL little milk if re- quired, and agato, more beating and stirring before the mixture Roca into the tin.

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A rich fruit cake should be fairly stiff to hold the fruit the mixture rises, and it is best to pile it up rather higher at the sides of the in, as it always rises most in the middle.

II. W. 5.

Art of

Walking

TALKING,

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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 got the most bene- fit out of the hour or less we can We had been friends for years,

I had to begin learning about spare for it after a hard day's but I

from work. We want to get all the my husband all over the minute he became my husband, exercise and fresh air possible our dis- though, of course, the basic things in the short time at loved him for were still there.

posal.

It is not sufficiently well that walking, besides known 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-developed, is too often the case when we course of so-called scientific exercises. follow a

And he says the same about me. I hope we shall go on being occasionally supprised at each other for years yet.

It shakes one out of oneself, which Is a good thing in marringe.

I

CANNOT imagine any couple marrying and not wanting children. But I suppose it happens sometimes.

We decided as far as possible to share the fun and the troubles of the children's early days. I didn't want my husband to be- como a

a "treat" or a "threat" to the children: which is the fate of many

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- wanting children isn't enough, one must have a natural love for them-ple rules must be observed. for, whatever people say, parental Clothing should be loosely fit- ting, and hats and heavy over- love is NOT instinctive.

coats are best left at home. Shoes ought to be comfortable.

On starting the walk the body should be erect, with head up and chest woll 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 each other. Then bring the arms-still straight-down until the backa of the hands touch the sides of the thighs.

fathers.

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 organizations, them is mutual, I think there is little even though I missed his companý risk of marriage losing its happiness, when he was busy with them.

And I had to realise that hott wouldn't or couldn't tell me all his t doings, though I would tell all mine! As some ono ones said, "incom- patibility in narration" is one of the things that must be put up with in marriage!

I am the oldest of my family, and my husband of his.

Wo had both travelled a lot before marriage, taking charge of our familles, and we were proud of our competence.

On our first holiday, cach tried so fiard to give in to the other

You and I

I love you because you

Are helping me to make Of the tumber of my life Not a tavern

But a temple.

Out of the works

Of my every day

Not a repronch But a song.

The chest will then be inßited and projected to its fullest extent, the the abdomen drawn well in, and

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