The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-07-10
What Giles County Man Wants.

What Giles County Man Wants.
Editor of COLUMBIA HERALD:
In this icOnOclastic age of ours
would not soar to utopian realms in
search of a model wife. She can be
found outside the pale of idealism.
She is seen every day, and though
she might have many shortcomings
in what you or 1 would expect, yet
she is the style, that some man
likes, and therefore, his model.
To be a model wife it is necessary
to be, first, a model woman. Many a
woman there is, whom nature in
tended to reign the crowned queen OF
some higher realm, languishing away
under the facilitating influence OF
housekeeping, and the care of chill
dren-as told by cheeks pallid and
lined with care, that once rivalled
roses of June. Or hands rough, aud
misshapen, that were once fair and
shapely, and produced exquisite
music from obedient keys. She has
the rudest of household drugery t.
contend with, and may have been
brought to it by the cutting winds OF
adversely, or an unworthy drunkard
| husband.
Either cause is bad, but the latter
| is the worst.
|
of her life as she pursues the unhappy
tenor of her way-and amid he
| troubled thoughts as to what will be
come of them when she has crossed
into
"The land of the great departed
Into the Silent Land"
she will have the satisfaction of be
| Iieving that the influence of her train
ing will liuger about them like ben
ediction; that they will honor he
memory, and that all who knew he
will say: "here was a model wife.
A model wife, if her husband un
happily be tainted like Othelio, witt
the "verdant eyed monster" will eX
emplify by her il n tie r, finement In'
| delicacy, the high-ininded words o
the unfortunate young countess Am
Robsalt, who said: II know cur
for jealousy; 1t is, to speak tn
truth to my Lord at all timesi to hol
up my mind and thoughts before hin
as pure as the polished surface
mirror; so when he looks into M.
heart he shall only see his own fea
lures reflected there"
The following described young lad
is the one whom L would hsh FOL
were matrimonially inelIned:
She should be not under 20 year
old, a brunette, five feet four inches
J and weigh one hundred and thirt
pounds.
Pretty, of course, a devout chris
tian and fond of music, art aud flow
ers, she should have a fine sense
humor, an active fancy, and goo
judgement, should be an adept wit
the needle, and know good cookin
when she sees it. Should have a
untold wealth of love, long blac
hair, and a symmetrical form. Wit
all these attributes, coupled with
regal and dignified bearing, she coul
not fail to be an agreeable compai
ion, comforter, counsellor, and cor
fidant. The odOr of sanctity woul
peryade the home of such woman
and it would be 'jOy forever"
love, honor, and protect" her: L ha
almost forgotten to say that she mus
be every inch a sOutherner. do nt
worship at the shrine of strange GOO
de5seS. 1 aspire rather to tho
crown Jewels of Vesta to be found n,
where as flawless as in our fair soutl
land and in the stately old counti'
of Maury and Giles.
HARRY THOMPSON,
Pulaski, Tenn.
p. s. I feel sorry for the ma
whose wife is cursed with-the b'
sitting sin of progressive gossi
ping. HI