Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — How to Select a Wife. [ARTICLE]

How to Select a Wife.

Good health, good morals, good sense, and good temper are the four essentials for 1 good wife. These are the indispensables. After them come the minor advantages of good looks, accomplishments, family position, etc. With the first four, married life will be comfortable and happy. Lacking either, it will be in more or less degree a failure. Upon good health depends largely good temper and good looks, and to some extent good sense also, as the best mind must be afTeoted more or less by the weaknesses and whims attendant on frail health. Young man, if your wife is falling into a state of invadidism, first of all try to restore her to health. If she is troubled with debilitating female weaknesses, buy Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It will cure her.

In General Debility, Emaciation, , Consumption, and wasting in children, Scott’s Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites is a most valuable food and medicine. it creates an appetite for food, strengthens the nervous system, and builds up the body. Please read: “I tried Scott’s Emulsion on a young man whom physicians at times gave up hope. Since he began using the Emulsion his cough has ceased, gained flesh and strength, ami from all appearances his life will be prolonged many years.”— John Sullivan, Hospital Steward, Morganza, Pa.

There is one tie-up that everyone can approve of,, and that is marriage.— Boston Post.