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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
11
Derry Church, Pa. June 13 1912. The item parodies ideal wife stereotypes with humorous rules about sacrifice, housekeeping, and loyalty, presenting a satirical view of marriage norms and urging couples to understand and overlook each other’s faults.
Campbelltown editor reflects on the evolving concept of the ideal wife in 1912, arguing happiness hinges on the wife’s qualities. He stresses a wife’s role in home life, food, cleanliness, and tending to children as the home’s core, with moral and religious considerations shaping expectations.
A Hummelstown reader lists health, common sense, looks, and housework knowledge as essentials for an ideal wife. He argues faithless husbands betray such women, urging society to view them with leniency and hope for a peaceful union and reunion in the afterlife.
The piece from Hershey Pennsylvania dated June 25 1912 lists the traits of an ideal wife including selflessness common sense simplicity sincerity good taste consideration and honor. It notes she should respect her husband as head of the family and suggests such qualities ensure a happy marriage.
The editor argues no rule can guide a young man in selecting an ideal wife. He contends even many rules would fail to predict outcomes, comparing love to a game of chance with 57 varieties and noting that class remains unknowable until it may be too late.
A farmer from Sand Beach Maine writes that an ideal wife helps with milking and feeding at sunrise, assists in fieldwork, prepares markets the night before, and endures cold or wet mornings without complaint. The piece frames endurance and practicality as marks of an ideal wife.
A meeting of the officers and teachers of the Sabbath School of Derry Presbyterian Church was held Friday evening at the Hershey Inn. Elected were Superintendent Irving L. Reist Assistant Superintendent Paul Gingrich Corresponding Secretary Harry S. Meyerer Recording Secretary Harry Zentmeyer Treasurer John H. Cope.
Miss Conrad and Miss Clara Moyer were elected delegates to the Dauphin County Sabbath School convention in Harrisburg today and tomorrow at Pine Street Presbyterian Church. The home department reports and several substitute teachers were appointed. The picnic is planned between August 3 and 10 with date to be announced.
Seventeenth annual Pennsylvania YMCA Bible conference will be at Mt Gretna from August 17 to 25. Officers and members statewide will receive leadership training in Bible study with speakers including C I Scofield M H Stine John D Fox and music led by J Raymond Hemminger. A two dollar registration earns access to all meetings and reduced hotel rates from one to four dollars per day. Hershey association will send a delegation.
The Union Electric Power Company of Swatara Dauphin County is chartered to supply electricity to Derry township. Capital is 5000 dollars with incorporators Walter J. Bradley Philadelphia George B. Hoffer Hummelstown and C B Cassady Hershey.
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