. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . PREFACE TO THE SECOND HE wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, ^s Icalled this book when it first made its appear-aiice, has not been crushed with the plough-share of criticism among the stoure. Onthe contrary, it has been so well received thatI am full of gratitude to the reviewers who recommended itand to the public who bought it. One critic suggested that tomake the work complete a chapter on second marriages shouldbe added. My reason for not writing such a chapter is that,not having myself been as yet often married, I
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . PREFACE TO THE SECOND HE wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, ^s Icalled this book when it first made its appear-aiice, has not been crushed with the plough-share of criticism among the stoure. Onthe contrary, it has been so well received thatI am full of gratitude to the reviewers who recommended itand to the public who bought it. One critic suggested that tomake the work complete a chapter on second marriages shouldbe added. My reason for not writing such a chapter is that,not having myself been as yet often married, I did not presumeto give advice to widows and widowers who have their ownexperience to guide them. Taking up the book in a lending library a friend read aloudthe tide to a lady who accompanied her— How to be Happythough Married. Lady: Oh, bother the happiness; doesit tell how to be married ? I hope that I may be pardonedif I cannot always do this.
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