A Wife of Noble Character

Where is your wife? Wesley Mayfield, an 1888 graduate of the Cleveland Medical School, takes his first position in the town of Wichita Falls on the plains of North Texas. There are things there that are not available in Ohio, such as a tornado or a prairie fire. Horses and cattle aren’t new but hundreds of them in one place at one time definitely are. He needs a nurse. Somebody asks the question every week, especially when it comes to that procedure. Never-married Wesley answers, “They’re all in the east.” “Advertise for a wife,” advises his friend Ike Tipton. Guided by his much-too-helpful minister friends, Wesley agrees. However, he wants God’s woman, so fliers are placed in churches from Boston to Atlanta. Now he must wait for the mail. Ike’s wife Beatrice is the postmistress and town gossip. Many residents of Wichita Falls are interested in Doctor Mayfield’s mail! Wesley receives several responses, but he’s interested in four, each with a unique perspective on marriage, faith, religion, nursing, and childbearing. As he considers each, one arrives—with notoriety, convinced that God has led her there.

Sweet Story

I thought the story was fun and sweet. The ending was a little abrupt after waiting so long for a union. The virtual voice for a narrator is an absolute kiss of death for any author. I hope his other books get posted with a great narrator.