I don't believe that this was really from the 1800's.
It's a hoax, just like the bogus "Housekeeping Monthly." Does anyone think that a minister's wife, writing in the late 1800's, would use words like "s-e-x" and "s-e-x-u-a-l"?
122 posted on 10/14/2005 11:09:49 AM PDT by Alouette
(Islam gives terrorism a bad name.)