Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1886-09-02
MINISTER'S WIVES.
The Kind That WIN lie Picked Out 70,
Him and the Kind Tie win Get,

10 select young lady TO nil the re-
sponsible position of minister wife. g"
he replies thus:
I In ninety-nine and ,hree-ouartrr
cases out of hundred asking alb tut
what your wife will be is rs futile as
studying an almanac TO find out where
lightning will strike i'm Montgomery.
County next August. or what kind of
weather you will have the first week in
September. 1t Is iudicious and wise to
select the right kind of lady for a
wife, and il 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 eases will fail To Sc
cure the woman. You say nothin j,
about love. You have made the mis-
take that the settler in Nebraska mak.s
when he locates his buildings without
considering the cyclone. The cyclone
reyises the first edition of the settlers
plans, and the second edition 50 COM
Pletely covers the ground that the
author S cursory remarks are forgotten.
You speak of selecting Il wife rs YOU
would select furn ture. This would he
Judicious if il would work. But if love
gets grip on ven, your present cool
Judgment would boil coffee in three
minutes, and YOU would think a red e.
headed girl in a blue >un-bounet would
ornament village church more than Il
new steeple and set of lightning rods
You ought to have a wife considera-
Oily older than yourself. say ten years or
SO. A Roman nose would give her a
commanding appearance. If she had
curls-good, big. hard curl>. 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 b.
able to work thirty different kind, o.
tides. What is home without IA tidvp
She should bring to the happy home
some of her art work. ANY accom-
phshed young woman has some paint
lngs. One neighbor ! had up in Wa h
lngton County had his parlor full of II :
.wife's paintings. Take one of those
Landscapes and when string fetched
loose and the picture turned arounl 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 grecu
sward. Hang that creation of art i'm
any shape and il would still be- intellgi.
bic and thing of beauty. Hang Il I'm
otherwise and il would be plaque rep
resenting thunder storm i'm the Rocky
Mountains. He had portraits his VT.
had painted. The hair and eyes aud
mouth were all one color. The >ooth-
ing effect OF those art works was very
apparent when he moved his old SEX
mother into the best room To die Sh
WIN Ia
looking at those pictures for dav or
two change was apparent. She told
her son she was not ONLY willing TO die
she was eager. Thus did art trumph
over nature
Such wife as | am describing would
help you in your work Sewing circles.
mite societies and missionary meet. nos
would be conducted in such 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 oui nv
visitors Sunday-school would he "a,
sacred and solemn n new cemetcr,
with white picket fence around it.
Now, this is the Kind of advice YOU
wanted, and is good stock advice but 4
L was forty years younger and could yet
myself out alone, this i tile kind of adj
vice would give myself: She ought Ia
be about five feet four inches in height.
She ought To have blaze eyes and k nd
of fluffy light-colored hair that AWAY,
gets loose around her ears and pather.
into little ringlets, and when the wind
blows il has To- be brushed out of ncr
eyes. She ought To have red cheek
when she runs down Ia the rate to .ay
goodbye when YOU get into your car
rage, and if you compliment her on her
appearance she ought to laugh. not gig
Gle, and show q set Of white teeth which
she doesn't keep in a tumbler nights
She ought TO be- addicted 10 white mus
I'm dresses in summer time with prcat
belt around such small waist that il
looks Ike putting q chain on hum.
ming bird. She ought Ia appear
a. sweet and fresh To- Won a.
the white blossom, which drou
down from the locust trees or
Your hat brm aud q. natural and nm.
affected. OF course she will not be
Siaid or reserved. and some one will 81,
the preacher j. a fool tO follow that
schoolgirl. but at the -amr time the,
would give considerable Of their rail
road stock for those red che .k, an
wh &C. teeth. but YOU. nv son. can ,et
iuFih TOT NpllIng III YOU under f1Nt
your bushes. Then. again. yiu nu.
expect q failure in her churcn wors
The children in Nunday--chool will wan,
90 kiss her and she won have amy 0o,.
eminent. bar at the same mc Won viii
notice rap Il growth in ih youny &c.
dies and young gentlemen Bib,rcla q.
and rough old chaps viii put on the
~pectacles and watch a. the door to TAX.
tht little white hand, aud the old l.,
dies viii come over rcry often fu .hov
her how 10 make biscuit. and hcmst,tcl
handkerchief and can her tomatoes
What II she docs no. make anv fd.,.
or paint ans pic'urc.. She Luuiu.
web over your heart chat bias NOR,
gay colOrs BOO ~ than ten yplIiow dog
ON fourteen green iidic- and tic Do 90.
ura she is painting on your memoir,
WI somehow get between her old lu,
twenty years from now. and your weak
ened old owes and She viii alwav- h
beautiful to Won
\ minister wants iu-t the same kim,
OF wife any other man wants Just
low NJ. kind. Intelligent and Chr .ti
little woman. with good deal of pa
tence and more hope 4Duqy a. j.
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