The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-08-24
Who Make the Best Wives ?

By all means marry woman with money
ray careful fathers 10 their sons; " you'll find
- as easy as not 10 get { suitable wife l0
has little fortune" Give me beaUjr, grace.
and accomplishments" IS the meHta. answer
OF enthusiastic youth, land leave mcrc.aarY
considerations to baser souls
We submit that neither Is right Il is IN
fuiiely more important ;hst young man
should choose healthy, amiable, and ia'eIli-
gent partner, than that he should select eth
er beauty or an heircss. The latter has
usually expensive habits; and, by the time
she has been married twenty years, has cost
her husband the amount Of her fortune in su-
Der6ui;ics. Besides, hciresses are generally
brought up in idIcncss, spending their time in
reading novels, lou0ging eboIt on the sofa,
ar acquiring taste for fashiona bic dissipation:
TO that they are either absurdy romantic or
cut Of health from want Of exercise or from
late hours, and, therefore, entirely unfit to
make good wives. Beauties on The other
hand. mostly are vain or giddy, if not both.
r wives were designed for playthings, or had
10 purpose beyond being parlor ornaments,
2 beauty might be desirable. Just as pictures
are, or fine furniture. The man who mar
yles an hcircss sacrifices his independence
and ends by finding he Is on! Of pocket also.
The lover who weds merely for beauty ties
himself 10 doll, which has not even the mer-
j, Of being sure 10 keep its painted cheeks.
Those women make the best wives who com
Jinc common sense with good temper who
have been brought Up to help themselves,
and who bring sound constitutions, oquable
spirits, and q sincere affection. as 4 dowry TO
their lovers. a wife should be her husbands
best freud-shc should be competent to coun-
SCI hun in difficulties, to cheer him in sor-
row, to render his everyday hearth the Pleas-
nntcst spot to be found every where. lfshe
has confirmed ill-health she cannot be all
this TO him; neither can she if she mas crook
ID temper, or habits of incidence, or is delci-
ent in practical sense The woman whose
whole heart is devoted to show, 20 company,
OF TO idle accomplishments, may possibly
make an interesting belle, but she is sure to
prove q very indifferent wife. We would
not have young girls neglect the beautiful
entirely; but that which adorns should be
made subservient to some more solid super
structure. To know how to play the last
new air, yet be ignorant how TO compound
the last new pudding, is surely objectionable.
A man might as well neglect to learn bus
ness as a woman refuse to acquire knowl-
edge of housekeeping.
Itisuseless TO disguise the fact that girls are
too often directed TO attract lovers rather than
10 retain the affection of husbands. This is
especially true Of the daughters OF families
above the necessity Of daily labor Mrs f.,
the successful mechanics wife, makes viz
.ual slave OF herself by drudging late and ear
:, n crder that Anna Maria may be drought
20 ,. os size phrases it, like lady" The
..on,c miss accordingly is crammed with
music dancing. French and other fddle-fod-
dies is told always 20 carry her shoulders
hock and never 70 romP. and ls taught to