The Sunday Times of Memphis recently solicited essays from all its young lady friends, on the subject of a model husband. Numerous contributions were received in response, and from amongst the many, the committee selected the following, which despite its brevity does infinite credit to the head and heart of its fair young author, Miss Lillian B. Perry, of Covington, Tennessee:
“If I wished to marry, (which of course I do not), I would desire a man too noble to commit a mean act, but generous enough to forgive one. A man as gentle as a woman, as manly as a man; one who does not talk scandal nor disagreeable truths. A man whose name I would be proud to bear; to whom I could carry my doubts and perplexities, and with whom I would find sympathy and joy.”
[The Mississippian, Jackson, MS, May 13, 1891]
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