Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


A practical young man wants prac-
teal young woman.
He wants TO marry her.
He advertiSes for her Is he would for
= house or a horse. He knows what he
wants and isn't afraid to burt it out.
With him it is a matter of business.
When he gets on the track of what he
wants he will address her thus:
Miss A.: | understand you can
make loaf of bread, brOil q beesteak,
wash and iron, and that you are prac-
teal housekeeper. would like to open
negotiations with you with view of
making you my wife. Please reply by
the bearer"
lie is not u romantic young man.
His thoughts DO not turn lightly to love
or flowers. He has none of the aesthetic
in his composition. He don't take any
stock in girls who can only bang the
piano and entertain with fashionable
Small-talk in the parlor.
This is not the kind of young man
the ladies banker after. But that young
man will get a wife. There are lots of
them around who have jobs in some
bOdy'S kitchen at from 81 to 30 per
week, who will take him in order to
have the distinction of sitting at the
head of the first table, and being recog-
niled a. the mistress ofthe house.
Sucn a wife will bake his bread, after
: fashion, brOil his beefsteak, after
fashion, scrub his house, after fashion,
and raise his children, after fashion.
She will not bang the piano, or talk
French, or attitudiuize in the parlOr;
she will be q business wife, the same he
hargained for.
But.the qualities which this practical
young man has eschewedin the woman
that he would make his wife may not
yet appear to have interfered with the
taste of his beefteak, the density of his
loaf of bread, or the appearance of the
linen which he dOnS on Sunday
morning. But there is a painful lack of
fastidiousness about the get up of his
daily bill of fare, and the general APP
pOintment of his household, that, in his
quiet moments, induce him to believe
that he got the worst end of the bust
ness bargain business wife.
The fact is that the man who ig-
nores and sneers at that quality in a wO-
man, which is commonly called fastid-
iuuSnesS, or aestheticism, or by what
ever name the subtle tact and refine
ment of nature, which is legitimate
and necessary part of a real woman's
character, is called, and seeks only a
"busineSs woman" good housekeep-
cr," a practical wife," gets none Of
these qualities.
A woman who has not culture of the
head and heart along with the hands is
u clumsy, slovenly, bungling operator in
the kitchen as well as elsewhere. 1t
takes refinement to cook q good beef
steak, 10 manipulate loaf of bread, or
even to scrub a floor \ dull, phleg-
matte kitchen girl may have industry
and endurance, but it is of 4 kind that
makes heavy bread, juiceless steak, and
mikes the peek of dirt in unequal pro-
portions to the time and quantity in
which a man is destined to devOur that
allowance.
These business women may some
times be able To keep house, but they
have none Of the qualities which fit
them to keep home. AwOman'S mis-
sion involves something else than the
operation of shaping loaf of bread. \
good wife will shape man. She will
smooth off the rough corners i'm his
character, mollify his unmanliness, re-
fine his tastes, and make his home =
place where all the better prOmptings of
his nature will find warmth and sun
shine for growth and development.
Let this praetical-wife- yeung-man
hunt among the refined, the dainty, the
faStidiouS, the cultured, or even the
fashionable flowers in the social garden,
for his business wife. He may find her
Ranging the plduO, vi t"ISIihS HeI CulIS'
or improving her French, or practicing
fitness in the parlor, but, as a wife, she
will cook, or supervise the cooking, Of a
better beefsteak, make lighter loaf Of
bread, and present more tOOthsome
meal i'm cheerier home than anyspeci-
men of bucolic business woman he
may strike. 1t is our decided conclusion
that he is hunting for just what he don't
want-a woman without refinement
without fastidiousneSs, if you please.