The Wife Desired

The role of the girl in life is the most glamorous and fascinating in all the world. Of no other creature is so much demanded. She is to be the helpmate of man, the mother of his children. She is to keep his home, to comfort him in loneliness and weariness, and to bring him back to health when sick.

This book deals with only the wife and her contribution to marriage. Generally it deals in fundamentals and especially so in the chapter Companionship. The natural and psychological aspect of the wife’s part in marriage are stressed, because the author is only too aware of many wives, cognizant of the spiritual and sacramental character of their marriages, who fail to put good use the natural gifts of mind and body.

This book will prove to be invaluable to high school students, college students, and all those young people who are contemplating marriage. Because of its clarity of thought and humanness of expression and example, Father Kinsella’s book will be helpful to priests and laity.