The Two Wives

Two men marry, and the two marriages are set side by side for twenty years: one wife makes a home, the other makes a point, and the husbands go the way the houses take them. Arthur left school at thirteen, half-blind and apprenticed to a watchmaker, and became one of the most widely read Americans of his century; the moral is stated on the tin, and the domestic observation underneath it is better than the frame deserves.

T. S. Arthur (1809¿1885) was an American writer and editor based in Philadelphia. His works include The Two Wives, Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper, and Off-Hand Sketches, among many others. He edited Arthur's Home Magazine and other periodicals.