I like the fact that he has absolutely no preference whatsoever. Like he has no clue what a woman is, just that he apparently needs one.
If I was in his shoes, I’d want a wife, too. Farms are a shitton of work and a partnership would share the burden and improve both our lives.
There’s a cool “reality” show from the late 2000s called Victorian Farm where a group of historians move into an old farm and live like the late 1800s for a year. One of the historians is an expert on domestic life and it’s fascinating seeing what being a “housewife” was like. They work just as hard all day and if their husband is sick or hurt, they have to pick up the slack in the field.
A couple of years ago I read Salt: A World History which as expected was about salt. A large percent of the book was about how salt was used a preservative and talking about how it was done. This included recipes and examples of “domestics work” throughout the ages. Its easy to forget about how of this “housewife” work included preserving and rationing the food to last all year. This included a lot of different passage about how to butcher and then preserve different animals, not to mention, cheese making, pickling, fermenting etc. A lot of this work is highly specialized and labor intensive. So of course this man needs a wife since he wasn’t trained on these skills.
Dont forget doing the laundry. People forget that doing the laundry was hard, time-consuming and neverending physical labor until very recently.
He’s damn proud of his oats and potatoes.
They don’t make ‘patriotic’, simple minded farm men like they used to…
I wonder if the patriotism was the closest they could safely signal “agnostic” (in a public ad). It seems unusual that “God” didn’t make the list, for the time.
Maybe it would be so unusual to not believe in God that it wasn’t worth mentionning.
Old timey Tinder is not so different, but seems a bit more honest.
You say while you haven’t seen his teeth, his buckwheat, his sheep or his house.
“believe in Andy Johnson”
Immediate rejection, boys are so problematic these days
Was he like the old time Andrew Tate?
Worse - Andrew Johnson was the president who succeeded Abraham Lincoln, and proceeded to back the defeated South’s desire to reclaim the US as a “white man’s nation” against the wishes of the Radical Republicans in office. And, for that matter, against the wishes of even the moderate Republicans at the time (at least insofar as backing the South was concerned), though they were less outspoken about it.
“of the female persuasion” - is that a normal turn of phrase?
It makes it sound like gender is fluid (like “she convinced herself she’s a girl and there’s nothing to be done about it”), which I absolutely love, especially considering it’s the mid 19th century…
They didn’t have the phrase ‘Big tiddy goth girls’ back then.
