Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — The Search for Pretty Wives. [ARTICLE]

The Search for Pretty Wives.

Ladles’ Home Journal. Girla to be successful to-day, must have something more than pretty features. The men who are worth marrying are looking for something than pretty faces, ooy manners or fetching gowns. They are recognising full well that women are progressing at a pace which will quicken, rather than slacken. They realize that the woman of to-morrow will be brighter in mind than her predecessors of today. Hence, they -are looking for wives who will be the equal of that of Tier neighbor. Beauty is being considered an adjunct to common sense. •>I want a wife who knows something, who is worth having for what she knows; not one of these social butterflies,” said one of the greatest “catches” of the last Ne w York season to me at the winter’s close. A-d he expressed the sentiments of thousands of the young men of to-day. The scent for pretty wives is over, and the lookout for bright, young women has begun. And the girl who to-day trains her mind to knowledge will be the woman of to-morrow. There is a prospect tir-u somebody will make a mint of n>«M»y out of Stanley’s lectures in America. The lecturer ar.d his wife wH! be carried from point to point in a gal&ce car now building for that special purpose.