. Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages. No. 32. their family expenses ; but she, knowing his prodigalityand liability to lose all his property, saved ten dollarsevery week, and continued to do so year after year. Even-tually, (as she expected,) he failed, greatly in debt, andwould have been obliged to sacrifice all his property, tomeet the demands of his creditors, had not his wife, like agood angel, ministering to him in the hour of his distress,referred him to the Bible for consolation
. Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages. No. 32. their family expenses ; but she, knowing his prodigalityand liability to lose all his property, saved ten dollarsevery week, and continued to do so year after year. Even-tually, (as she expected,) he failed, greatly in debt, andwould have been obliged to sacrifice all his property, tomeet the demands of his creditors, had not his wife, like agood angel, ministering to him in the hour of his distress,referred him to the Bible for consolation, (a book that hadbeen heretofore sealed to him,) on opening which, to hisgreat surprise, he found as many ten dollar bills betweenthe various leaves, as they had been married weeks: enoughto satisfy all his creditors, and to enable him to start againin business. Cuts 32 and 33, are correct outlines of a woman, whose his-tory is given below. As a young lady she was fair, very social,entertaining, and fascinating, and had many suitors fromthose in respectable ranks in society, was a member of a 210 MAREIAGE. MRS. GOTTFRIED BACK VIEW,. No. 33. church for five years, and, at one time, prayers were saidfor her in the church, because it was thought she had beenpersecuted. Her passions, however, broke loose again, andas I was informed by one who knew her well, having livedin the same neighborhood, she was not positively detected,neither was her career ended, until she had poisoned be-tween thirty and forty individuals of various ages, all to ac-complish a great variety of selfish purposes. The above cuts present a side and back view of the headof a woman by the name of Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, ofGermany. Dr. Hirschfeld, of Bremen, took the bust andsent it to the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, from a copyof which these cuts are taken. The back view shows alarge neck and great breadth of the head, particularly in theregion of Secretiveness and Destructiveness, and, also greatheig
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