. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XIX. NURSING ** And kings shnll be thy nursing fathers.—Isaiah xlix. 23. T is an old saying, • Praise the child and 5cumake love to the mother; and it is a thing thatno husband ought to overlook, for if the ^vifewish her child to be admired by others, whatmust be the ardour of her wishes with regard tohis admiration ! Cobbctt tells us that there was a drunkenman in his regiment, who used to say that his wife would forgivehim for spending all the pay, and the washing money into thebargain, if he would but kiss he


. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XIX. NURSING ** And kings shnll be thy nursing fathers.—Isaiah xlix. 23. T is an old saying, • Praise the child and 5cumake love to the mother; and it is a thing thatno husband ought to overlook, for if the ^vifewish her child to be admired by others, whatmust be the ardour of her wishes with regard tohis admiration ! Cobbctt tells us that there was a drunkenman in his regiment, who used to say that his wife would forgivehim for spending all the pay, and the washing money into thebargain, if he would but kiss her ugly brat, and say it waspretty. Though this was a profligate he had philosophy in!him ; and certain it is that there is nothing worthy of the nameof conjugal happiness unless the husband clearly evince that heis fond of his children. Where you find children loving and helpful to their mothers,3OU generally find their father at tlie bottom of it. If the KURSLXG fathers:- 175 husband respect his wife the children will respect their the husband rises to offer her a chair, they


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