May 1, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (
Some ungallant scamp, in the Atlanta Intelligencer, gives his views as follows in regard to women, or rather the style of women he does and don’t prefer:
Thin, spare made women, who look as though they lived on steel chips and saw filings, whose salient points and bony angles, exhibit unapproachable turrets and bastions, are seldom generous. Selfishness and imperiousness characterize them. They represent the nondescript animal termed malicious gossip, and rare birds of raven wings and cypress shadows, they are. Births and funerals are luxuries to them.
But commend me to a fat woman. Their broad-faced, dimple cheeked, double chinned, waddling, ponderosity style, their genial smiles and inimitable good humor gives constant promise of good cheer and the welcome disposition to laugh, and especially to feed you well.
The lean, thin woman, of moral surface, makes a good, cool, summer wife.
My choice is the golden mean, embonpoint, dimpled cheeks, auburn hair, luscious eyes, not a beauty; easy going, intelligent and one hundred and sixty pounds weight.