...when he ought to be applauded as the decided advocate of universal temperance. WAA TO A YOUNG BRIDE. OH, young and lovely bride, watch well the first moments...to which he will gladly accede, without a contest for trifles. The beautiful independence that soars over and conquers an irritable temper is higher...

...sudden sense of my duty, as I met the words, 'And the wife see that she rev. crence her husband.' Ob, young and lovely bride, watch well the first moments...independence, to which he will gladly accede without • contest or trifles. The beantifnl independence that oars over and conquers an irritable temper...

...husband." Oh, young and lovely bride', watch well the first moments when your will conflicts with his1" to whom God and society have -given the control. Reverence...to which he will gladly accede', without a contest for trifles. The beautiful independence that soars over, and conquers', an irritable temper, is higher...

...to our own, and jar the rich harp of domestic happiness until, one by one, every string is broken. I might have gone on in this foolish ingenuity in unhappiness,...to which he will gladly accede, without a contest for trifles. The beautiful independence that soars over and conquers an irritable temper is higher...

...are chains, not garlands, bad I not, when reading one Sabbath morning the fifth chapter of Ephosians, been struck with a sudden sense of my duty, as I met...to which he will gladly accede, without a contest for trifles. The beautiful independence that soars over and conquers an irritable temper is higher...

...to our own, and jar the rich harp of domestic happiness until, one by one, every string is broken. I might have gone on in this foolish ingenuity in unhappiness,...to which he will gladly accede, without a contest for trifles. The beautiful independence that soars over and conquers an irritable temper is higher...

...them with support and protection in return. As such, the home was women's sphere, but man's dominion. "Oh, young and lovely bride, watch well the first...Reverence his wishes even when you do not his opinions," writers typically advised. The wife's role was to obey and guide, sacrificing herself in order to be...

...been avoided."34 Writers warned women to avoid conflict with their husbands and to submit to them: "Oh, young and lovely bride, watch well the first...Reverence his wishes even when you do not his opinions." Mothers such as AW Habersham echoed this advice to their daughters, often in remarkably similar language....

...Gilman's advice to the bride aimed at establishing this proper order from the beginning of a marriage: "Oh, young and lovely bride, watch well the first...Reverence his wishes even when you do not his opinions."** Mrs. Gilman's perfect wife in Recollections of a Southern Matron realizes that "the three golden threads...

...submissiveness. Young women were admonished in the most solemn tones at the beginning of their marriage, "Oh, young and lovely bride, watch well the first...Reverence his wishes even when you do not his opinions."* This theme of dependency and inferiority was ubiquitous in the literature of the 183os and 184os. "True...