Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-12-27
RICH AMERICAN GIRLS.
Qualities That Make Woman Desir-
able as a Wife.


To know how to carry on a house
hold and to keep her knowledge alive
by practice is good for a woman and
blessing for everyone else in the house,
from the husband to the scullery maid.
woman should be able to sew well
and to understand how to cut out and
lit her own dresses, though if she can
afford dressmaker let her by all
means employ one. She should quail
ify herself not only to be a kind
mother, but a wise one-making a
thorough study of hygiene and learning
something about physiology and thera-
peutics, so as not to get ratified If
there be no doctor at hand. She
should be honestly familiar with good
literature and know and speak her
own language well, even if she study
no other: 1t can do her no harm either
to have mastered elementary science
and to keep abreast mot too ambi-
tiously) of scientific progress. Finally
she should develop her body, not ex-
cessively, but Systematically, by exer-
else outdoors and in, eat healthy food
and be fanatically immaculate in her
person. Such woman will make a
desirable wife, whether she be rich or
poor, plain or beautiful.
Miss Helen Gould may be selected as
one of the best types of young WON
anhood living. The only drawback for
Miss Gould or any other great heiress
is that there is hardly any male being
she can trust enough to feel safe in
becoming his WIFE A man hitherto
honest may be transformed into for
tune-hunter by girl like that.
Marriage. a doubtful risk under the
most equal conditions, becomes a mad
cap hazard for heiresses. It is sur
prising how often they have been, to
all appearances. fairly successful. Mary
Letter (Lady Curzon) is reputed to be
happy. and she certainly makes a good
vicereine. The case of Consuelo Van
derbilt, who undertook the rehabilita-
ton of the Marlboroughs, appears sat-
isfactory. Concerning Miss Martin
(I4ady Craven), Catherine Goddard,
now Princess Poniatowski; Clara Hun
tington, who married Prince Won HAITI
feldt, and many others, sufficient data
fer passing judgment is lacking.
But, generally considered, there is no
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prove beneficial to women 1t is more
likely than formerly to prove so, be-
cause we have more enlightenment as
to the conduct of life than we used to
have, our standards for women are
higher and more sensible than of yore.
and the new careers" for women have
given their ambition a better direction.
The number of beautiful women has
enormously increased in the last thirty
years; the example of the stage and its
adoption by many society women may
have had something to do with it; but
knowledge of how to live and the popu-
larity Of exercise and sports have had
more. A woman healthy in body and
enlightened in mind is much more
likely to be good in other ways than is
her incompetent sister; and since
wealth affords the best opportunities
for this kind of development it ought
to be, broadly speaking, beneficial to
the sex in this country.
Rich girls have not normally the
same temptations that rich boys have:
and it is our boys, and not our g.rls,
who ought to be blamed for the latter
marrying foreigners. A foreign aristo-
crat has at least position and career
to offer to a girl in exchange for her
money; but what have our rich young
men to offer her? What sort Of a
career is that Of a rich American 8
wife? Such cases as that Of Miss Nor
gan are too rare 10 argue from. Miss
Zimmerman's marriage to the young
Duke Of Manchester, on the other hand
has a historical value, and racial one
too. for the noblemen Of England are