Matrimony in America.
In ideal matrimony the husband and wife are not absorbed into each other by any means. They remain totally separate individuals, with their own aims, desires, and lovcb, bub blending as it were into one whenever* union is necessary. The wife in this marriage iB no slave or toy of her husband, but his equal, companion, friend, and adviser, inspirer, stimulator, and even agitator. Him she meets with open, frank eyes, rot in the tmrbarouß fashion of Western Europe abashed and submissive ; and him she leads on to a higher and nobler life, not administering to his base material comforts and ease, but urging him ever onward and upward. The ideal husband, knowing her to be his equal in every respect, mental and moral, naturally regards her with the deeper veneration that sho is physically his inferior. This ideal condition, according to the account of many foreign observer?, actually exists somewhere in this country — where, we have never seen stated, but probably not in Connecticut, Indiana or Illinois. — The Galaxy.
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1659, 12 June 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)
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173Matrimony in America. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1659, 12 June 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)
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