HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15237, 26 February 1913, Page 11

HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE.

" When about" to marry first pick your mother-in-law," said a Chicago clergyman in an address to eligible young men. 'Mothers are living pictures in the albums of the years, showing just what time will do for their daughters. Find me a mother whose house has no order—the rolling pin in the musij rack, the satin sofa pillow in the coal box; who never combs her hair until she ' goes out,' and* who looks like a fright until somebody comes. If the text is true, the. daughter will keep house in the same manner. Find! me a mother who will turn her j baby over to a nurse and let a silken poodle lead her to a club I say nothing but the grace of God can keep the daughter from doing just the same as the mother. But show me a mother who is kind of heart, decisive of will, Christian in character, a good housekeeper, whose daily orders are that ■■' dirt, debt, and the devil' cannot enter her home, who can play as elegantly on : the cooking stove as she can on the piano in short; a mother given to industry, selfsacrifice, and consecrationand the reproduction of such a mother is easily seen' in the daughter. If young men would use good sense in studying their prospective mothers-in-law mistakes would be avoided, business for divorce courts lessened, and thousands of homes made happier."