HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE.
A correspondent sends the following, cut from a Scotch paper, to the ‘ Town and Country ’ and suggests its adoption in the colony : Sir, —About forty years ago I find from an old newspaper that associations were formed called “ Shirt and Pie Societies,” the principal object of which was to insure suitable wives. “To effect this each member became bound, under a penalty of £SO, not to marry any lady who cannot, by credible witnesses, be proved to be able to cut out and sew a shirt and make a pie and darn a pair of stockings. And he must within six months after marriage under a similar penalty, be able to establish that his lady has made at least a dozen of shirts, baked a dozen pies, and darned a dozen pair of stockings.” This scheme for turning the attention of young ladies to what was really useful as the means of rewarding them with good husbands, is said to have been successful in some of the English counties. Would such homely associations not be useful now as a happy consummation of our schoolboard aud cooking-school aspirations ?
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Lake County Press, Volume VII, Issue 383, 12 September 1878, Page 3
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