The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-11
MINISTER'S WIVES.
The Kind That Will Be Picked Out fol
 Him and the Kind He VIII Get.

sponsible position of minister s wife, y
 he replies thus:
 In ninety-nine and three-quarter cases out of a hundred asking about what your wife will be is as futile as studying an almanac to find out where lightning will strike in Montgomery County next August, or what kind of weather you will have the first week in September. It IS judicious and wise to select the right kind of a lady for a wife, and it would also be pleasant to pick out the spot where we would have wart if we had to have one; but, alas, the closest scrutiny and most mature judgment will fail to locate the wart, and in too many cases will fail to se- cure the woman. You say nothing about love. You have made the mis- take that the settler in Nebraska makes when he locates his buildings without considering the cyclone. The cyclone revises the first edition of the settlers plans, and the second edition so com pletely covers the ground that the author cursory remarks are forgotten. You speak of selecting wife as you would select furn ture. This would be iudicious if it would work. But if love gets grip on you, your present cool Judgment would boil coffee in three minutes, and you would think red headed girl in blue sun-bonnet would ornament village church more than a new steeple and a set of lightning rods
 You ought to have wife considera- ply older than yourself, say ten years or so. A Roman nose would give her a commanding appearance. If she had curls-good, big, hard curls, that look like two-inch augers with the points broken off-they would keep the rab- ble from being too free with her. She should be accomplished. She should be able to work thirty different kinds of tidies. What is home without a tidy? She should bring to the happy home some of her art work. Any accom- plished young woman has some paint .ings. One neighbor had up in Wash ington County had his parlor full of his wife's paintings. Take one of those landscapes and when a string fetched loose and the picture turned around the lake would be the sky and the birds would be the ships, and the sky would be the real estate, and the clouds would answer for cattle feeding on the green sward. Hang that creation of art in any shape and it would still be intelligi- ble and thing of beauty. Hang It up otherwise and it would be a plaque rep resenting thunder storm in the Rocky Mountains. He had portraits his wife had painted. The hair and eyes and mouth were all one color. The sooth- ing effect of those art works was very apparent when he moved his old sick mother into the best room to die. She was startled when she awoke, but after looking at those pictures for day or two a change was apparent. She told her son she was not only willing to die; she was eager. Thus did art triumph over nature
 Such wife as I am describing would help you in your work. Sewing circles, mite societies and missionary meetings would be conducted in such a manner as to dispel all levity and inspire re-. spect Such help would tighten your labors, for one pastoral call with her would last long time. Your carpets and furniture would not be worn out by visitors. Sunday-schoOl would be as sacred and solemn as new cemetery with white picket fence around it.
 Now, this is the kind of advice you wanted, and is good stock advice, but if was forty years younger and could get myself out alone, this is the kind of ad- vice would give myself: She ought to be about five feet four inches in height She ought to have blue eyes and kind of fluffy ight-colored hair that always gets loose around her ears and gathers into little ringlets, and when the wind blows it has to be brushed out of her eyes. She ought to have red cheeks when she runs down to the gate to say goodbye when you get into your car riage, and if you compliment her on her appearance she ought to laugh, not gig gle, and show a set of white teeth which she doesn't keep in tumbler nights She ought to be addicted to white mus lin dresses in summer time, with great belt around such a small waist that it looks like putting a chain on a hum- ming bird. She ought to appear as sweet and fresh to you as the white blossoms which drop down from the locust trees on your hat brim and as natural and un- affected. Of course she will not be staid or reserved, and some one will say the preacher is fool to follow that schoolgirl, but at the same time they would give considerable of their rail road stock for those red cheeks and white teeth, but you, my son, can get them for nothing if you understand your business. Then, again, you must expect a failure in her church work. The children in Sunday-school will want to kiss her and she won't have any gov ernment, but at the same time you will notice rapid growth in the young la- dies and young gentlemen Bible class, and rough old chaps will put on their spectacles and watch at the door to take that little white hand, and the old la dies will come over very often to show her how to make biscuits and hemstitch handkerchiefs and can her tomatoes.
 What if she does not make any tidies or paint any pictures. She is knitting a web over your heart that has more gay colors in it than ten yellow dogs on fourteen green tidies, and the pict- ura she is painting on your memory will somehow get between her old face twenty years from now, and your weak ened old eyes. and she will always be beautiful to you.
 A minister wan ts just the same kind of wife any other man wants. Just loving, kind, intelligent and Christian little woman, with good deal of pa tience and more hope.-AtbGny (M K) JOUrndt