Lapham's Quarterly

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

"A clever sailor husband is so seldom at his home
That his wife can spend the dollars with a will that’s all her own
Then I’ll haste to wed a sailor, and send him off to sea
For a life of independence is the pleasant life for me..."

1850s Nantucket girls know what they want: http://bit.ly/11Z2xJo