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LETTER FROM A WOMAN DOCTOR--

My Dear Virginia:

Before starting this letter I ran hurriedly through all the issues of your magazine. Do you have any idea of how much it has improved? Actually it hardly seems that there is any similarity between the publisher of that first one and the present. Then you were feeling your way so to

speak, unsure of the course and flirting with the things that would surely have destroyed the magazine in one way or the other. Now it's course is clear and it makes a genuine contribution to a group of poor harried souls,

Do you have any idea as to how much or rather, how great a percentage of your readers are young people? If there is any large percentage I think you would do a gen- uine favor to emphasise and reemphasize the dangers of marriage. ((Preliminary results on the questionaire in- dicate that about 25% of those replying were less than 30 years old. It should be noted that it is much more diff- icult to establish contact with younger TVs as they have not themselves broken out of their shells and made other acquaintances through whom they could hear of TVia - ED.))

It makes me want to cry when I read your "Letters to the Editor" portion and find how many of them repeat the same story, in many variations, of a disasterous marriage or series of them, The wife who will even tolerate is rare, the one who will give active cooperation (after the first few episodes) is practically non-existant statis- tically, ((The questionaire shows that about 50% of those giving the wives attitude showed acceptance and an add- itional 20% were listed as tolerant--larger than one might think and suggesting that the big difference is how the subject was presented and whether before or after marriage.)) Perhaps your continued emphasis on this point might do no good but even if it saved only one heartbreak it would be well spent. It is one thing for me to look at Eonism in a clinical sense without becoming emotionally involved in the sense of approval or criticism in third persons. But