HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE.
A correspondent soncU tha following cut from a Scotch paper, to tbo Town and Country, and sußgosts its adoption in tho colony :— Sir,— About forty years ogo I find from an old nowspapor that associations woro formod called «• Shirt and Pio Socictios," tho principal objoct of whioh was to insuro euitablo wives. 'To offoot this ; each member bcoamo bound, uudor a
ponnlty of £50, not to marry any Jaijy, who cannot, by credible witnossos, bo prnvod to be able lo cut; out and sow a shirt and malco a ]iic, nnd darn a pan- ot stockings. And ho mast within six months nftor marrtago uuder n .similiu' penally, bo nblo to establish that his lady has mado at least a dozen of shirts baked a do7.cn pios, and darned n dozen pair of stockings.' This scheme for turning tho attention of yo'iny; ladies to what was really useful as tho means of rewarding thorn With good husbands, is said to havo been successful in some of the English counties. Would such homely associations not bo useful now as a happy consummation of our schoolboard aud cooking school aspirations P
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Inangahua Times, Issue 97, 25 September 1878, Page 2
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194HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE. Inangahua Times, Issue 97, 25 September 1878, Page 2
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