The Wife I Want, 18930
source: Keepapitchinin August 17, 2009
Mormon Life says: Read this wish list written in 1893 where a man details the qualities of an ideal wife.
“Garcon” outlined his ideal wife in an article published in the December, 1893 issue of The Young Woman’s Journal, to which “Muchacha” responded with a description of her “Model Husband” in The Contributor of March, 1894. Share what you think of Garcon’s list, then come back this afternoon for Muchacha’s reply (with its – to me – revealing but unexpected reference to plural marriage).
When I marry my desire is to find a woman possessing as many as possible of the following characteristics:She should be so virtuous as to live not only above reproach, but above suspicion.
She should be religious, yet not sanctimonious.
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