I Women learn radiant happiness
By ANN TRENEMAN
Of the Emerald
The class members lowered their
heads in prayer. The woman standing at
the front of the class in Room 9, Colin
Kelly Junior High School, bowed hers.
“Dear Lord, I pray I will be able to
teach this material so it is understood by
these women....” The lesson for the
night was “Sympathetic Understanding”
and “Making our Husbands Number
One." The women, seated in small
desks, took out their notebooks and
began diligently taking notes.
Every Tuesday night for the next eight
weeks, these 15 women will sit in Room
9 and take notes on understanding men,
gaining deep inner happiness and be
coming a domestic goddess.
“This course brings an honor and a
dignity to homemaking,” Janice Wicks,
teacher of Fascinating Womanhood
said.
Femininity, radiant happiness, fresh
radiant health and child-likeness are all
components of the ideal woman from a
man’s point of view according to “Fas
cinating Womanhood.” The $15 class is
inspired by the book “Fascinating
Womanhood” by Helen Adelin.
Wicks said, “The success in people's
lives is what really sells this course. All
the advertising in the world won't help
you if the product isn’t good.
"It’s the best answer I’ve come up
with,” she added. When asked how her
life changed after taking the course, she
smiled, raising her hands over her head,
“My husband’s income just started to go
like this.”
The course is billed as “A Guide to a
Happy Marriage.” Wicks said, “Women
take an honest look at how bad they
want their marriages to work. It all de
pends on if they want to play. If their
answer is ’no,' that’s not what they want,
then bunch it!”
Wicks said women from “all walks of
life” take the course, while divorced and
single women enroll also. “Someone
said to me once that it’s always the
women who don’t need this course who
take it.” She added unmarried women
do benefit, because “I think they learn to
think and become honest with them
selves. They learn to be honest enough
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‘Wives key to
husband’s success’
Photo by Grog QiwtowM
Janice Wicks: “Make our husbands number one”
to admit exactly where they were in their
lives.
“Look, they don't have to believe this,”
she said, pointing to the book “Fascinat
ing Womanhood,” but “what is it they
want?”
Wicks’s first contact with Fascinating
Womanhood was a housework list
handed to her by a friend who was taking
the course. The list, a day-by-day
breakdown of housework, is part of the
course's material.
“I just really needed some ideas of
how to go about doing it. I used to just sit
in my kitchen and bawl....” That was
about fifteen years ago.
“I have always been searching for
someone who was leading a better
life.... When I first took this course I de
cided to take this material hook, line and
sinker. If it didn't work, I had nothing to
lose,” she shurugged.
“When I first took the course,” Wicks
said, “I asked myself how can I be
creative....what can I do to help my hus
band to like himself better so he can like
me better?
“I think it’s called synergetics' — if it’s
not good for both of us, it's not good.”
Wicks started to teach the course at
Eugene’s First Baptist Church in 1970.
She taught, it several times and then
started to receive “some negative feed
back" concerning the course's material.
She said, "At that point I had to decide
if I was willing to take the flack.” It took
her two years to decide. “My friends
would say things like Everyone I know
who’s taken that course got a divorce’ I
really had to believe in the material and
get a firm foundation behind me to start
teaching again.
“I’m sort of a Pollyana, I'd rather stick
my head in the sand than realize how far
a lot of men have to go. But they have to
change themselves. I’m responsible for
myself...I find that’s quite enough,”
Wicks said emphatically.
A man “needs a sympathetic and un
derstanding wife by his side," Wicks said
at last Tuesday's class on the “pressing
responsibilities of being a man.” Wicks
quoted often from Genesis on a man’s
desire and need for work. Later, a man
spoke on his tasks of being a provider,
husband and father.
When asked how she felt about un
married couples living together, Wicks
said, “If you live together forever, then
it’s no different from marriage. However,
loyalty is essential. In a lot of cases in the
end I think there is more grief than
pleasure.”
In addition to “Fascinating Woman
hood," Adelin has written a book for un
married women called “Fascinating
Girl,” which discusses how to be the kind
of woman a man adores and basically
how to attract men.
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