B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

Name: Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives
Author: B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

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“Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives”, published in 1919, is a work by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols. It explores elements such as wife, woman and mother.

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

“ THE BEST KEEPER OF HOME.—As to who is the best keeper of this transition home, memory pictures to me a woman grown white under the old slavery, still bound by it, in that little-out-of-the-way Kansas town, but never so bound that she could not put aside household tasks, at any time, for social intercourse, for religious conversation, for correspondence, for reading, and, above all, for making everyone who came near her feel that her home was the expression of herself, a place for rest, study, and the cultivation of affection. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

“ FOUND THE RIGHT HUSBAND.—The best wife is the woman who has found the right husband, a husband who understands her. A man will have the best wife when he rates that wife as queen among women. Of all women she should always be to him the dearest. This sort of man will not only praise the dishes made by his wife, but will actually eat them. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

“ Now, if a woman cannot broil a beefsteak, nor boil the coffee when it is necessary, if she cannot mend the linen, nor patch a coat, if she cannot make a bed, order the dinner, create a lamp-shade, ventilate the house, nor do anything practical in the way of making home actually a home, how can she expect to make even a good wife, not to speak of a better or best wife? ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

“ The woman who is brainy enough to be a companion, wise enough to be a counsellor, skilled enough in the domestic virtues to be a good housekeeper, and loving enough to guide in true paths the children with whom the home may be blessed. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

“ A BUSY WOMAN.—As to whether a busy woman, that is, a woman who labors for mankind in the world outside her home,—whether such an one can also be a good housekeeper, and care for her children, and make a real "Home, Sweet Home!" ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

“ The good wife and homemaker says to her children, "Where thou goest, I will go." She puts off her own inclinations to ease and selfishness. She studies the men who propose to educate her children; she exhorts mothers to sit beside fathers on the school-board; she will even herself accept such thankless office in the interests of the helpless youth of the schools who need a mother's as well as a father's and a teacher's care in this field of politics. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

“ BEST HOME MAKER.—A woman to be the best home maker needs to be devoid of intensive "nerves." She must be neat and systematic, but not too neat, lest she destroy the comfort she endeavors to create. She must be distinctly amiable, while firm. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

“ Above all, he will pay the Easter bonnet bill without a word, never bring a friend to dinner without first telephoning home,—short, he will comprehend that the woman who makes the best wife is the woman whom, by his indulgence of her ways and whims, he makes the best wife. So after all, good husbands have the most to do with making good wives. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

“ She should have no "career," or desire for a career, if she would fill to perfection the home sphere. She must be affectionate, sympathetic and patient, and fully appreciative of the worth and dignity of her sphere. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Women Who Make the Best Wives (1919)

“ GOOD WIVES AND MOTHERS.—The good wives and mothers are the women who believe in the sisterhood of women as well as in the brotherhood of men. The highest exponent of this type seeks to make her home something more than an abode where children are fed, clothed and taught the catechism. ”

B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

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